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Trump on Charlottesville: “Racism is Evil” – Calls White Supremacists “Criminals & Thugs” POTUS Blames “Both Sides” for Violence – Praises “Fine People on Both Sides”

Neo Nazis, KKK and assorted white supremacists exchanged blows with the counter protestors at a demonstration in Charlottesville last Saturday.

The violence that ensued left 32-year old Heather Heyer dead and dozens seriously wounded. James Alex Fields, Jr, 20, of Ohio has been charged with murder

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resident Trump on Tuesday defended his reaction to White supremacist protestors and counter protestors at the Charlottesville demonstration by saying, "I think there's blame on both sides" and there were "very fine people on both sides".

"What about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, the alt-right, do they have any semblance of guilt?"

Trump asked journalists at Trump Tower in New York City.

"You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent," he said.

The president also declared that the protest, which was against the removal of a statue of a Civil War Con-

federate general, included peaceful protesters who were unaffiliated with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who were filmed clashing violently with counter-protesters.

"I looked the night before, if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee," Trump said, prompting shouted questions from reporters.

He also appeared to question the appropriateness of removing statues lionizing Confederate figures, noting that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and asking whether statues of Washington would also be removed.

President Trump’s first visit to his opulent triplex penthouse on Monday night at his eponymously named luxu-

ry skyscraper in Manhattan was replete with the kind of controversy that has marked his young presidency. This was

Trump arrived home to the sight of thousands of rancorous demonstrators who were stridently protesting against him for what they perceive as his reluctance to condemn the racist messages of the alt-right and other White supremacist groups the first time since January that Trump had set foot in his long time digs as he utilized the opportunity to schedule meetings in New York while the White

house is being renovated.

Trump arrived home to the sight of thousands of rancorous demonstrators who were stridently protesting against him for what they perceive as his reluctance to condemn the racist messages of the alt-right and other White supremacist groups. These groups which include the Neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan were in the maelstrom of the violent riots that have captured the attention of the nation and the world. The rueful aftermath of the hate filled riots left one woman dead and dozens wounded in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday. A contingent of Trump supporters also gathered in front of his home with their own distinct messages of support.

More than 1,000 demonstrators were in pens police erected across the street

from Trump Tower by early Monday evening, hours before his expected arrival. An inflatable caricature of Trump rose above pedestrians on a nearby block. On Twitter, a photo surfaced of protesters who made it past security pressing signs against a window in the skyscraper, according to a USA Today report.

Police stationed sand-filled sanitation trucks as barriers around the tower and layers of metal police barricades around the main entrance.

According to a report posted on the Gothamist website, Eric Wilson, 30, was carrying a sign that said "Resist Whiteness," which he explained was a

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1st Lady McCray Demands Loeb Resign De Blasio Challenged by Underdog from School’s Board for KKK Reference Nicole Malliotakis in Mayoral Race

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fter a hedge fund manager with political connections made a racial comment about a black state Senate leader, Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife demanded that he resign from his position as board chairman of the largest charter school in the city.

According to Crain’s, “Third Point LLC's Daniel Loeb posted commentary on Facebook asserting Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins had done more damage to the African-American community than the Ku Klux Klan by being hostile to charter schools. At the same time, Loeb—chairman of the board at Success Academy Charter Schools—praised Bronx Sen. Jeffrey Klein, whose Independent Democratic Conference has held a power-sharing arrangement with Senate Republicans since 2012.”

Loeb wrote online, "Thank God for Jeff Klein and those who stand for educational choice and Charter [sic] funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack [sic] kids.

Meanwhile hypocrites like Stewart-Cousins who pay fealty to powerful union thugs and bosses do more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood." He obviously

New York City First Lady Chirlane McCray demands hedge fund manager Loeb resign for his racial remark.

Third Point LLC's Daniel Loeb has an approximate net worth of $3.2 billion and is a big donor to multiple politicians.

meant to write ‘black kids’ instead of the typo ‘knack kids.’

Governor Andrew Cuomo denounced Loeb’s remarks. Although, the hedge fund manager, with an approximate net worth of $3.2 billion has been a longtime donor to both the Governor and Klein.

Early on Friday, August 11, after deleting the Facebook post, Loeb issued a statement which said, "I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice. I apologize to Senator Stewart-Cousins and anyone I offended."

First Lady Chirlane McCray did not feel that his apology was

enough. Her husband, the mayor, has bumped heads many a times with Success Academy and its CEO, former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.

On Friday, McCray wrote on both Twitter and Facebook, "Thanks for the apology. Now resign. Immediately."

Crain’s reports, “As leader of a conference that includes just 23 of the state Senate's 63 members, Stewart-Cousins has virtually no power to pass or block legislation that affects charter schools. The primary resistance to their expansion is in the Assembly, which Democrats control with support from teachers' unions.”

icole Malliotakis, the 36-year-old assemblywoman, is aggressively taking the on Mayor de Blasio for the 2017 election.

The outspoken Republican candidate mocked the incumbent mayor last week in a publicity stunt. She chased de Blasio with a can of Red Bull energy drink, as he passed by her press conference. She told reporters that she wanted to help him stay awake, after reading in the Post that Hizzoner likes to nap during workdays. By contrast she says she rarely takes lunch or even bathroom breaks.

That’s not the only thing she attacked the mayor for. “Everything in New York is deteriorating under this mayor,” she said. Malliotakis vows to change New York. She wants to fix the city’s transit system, improve conditions for seniors, tackle crime and expand services for the mentally ill. Last week, an NYPD cop was shot by an emotionally disturbed 29-year-old.

Police officer Hart Nguyen was saved by his bullet proof vest.

“That’s what I mean about the violence in this city,” Malliotakis commented. “De Blasio lacks leadership. He is not helping the mentally ill who are attacking people on the subway and tar-

Nicole Malliotakis, the 36-yearold assemblywoman, is aggressively taking the on Mayor de Blasio for the 2017 election

geting the police.”

Malliotakis, the only daughter of Cuban and Greek immigrants, graduated from Seton Hall University, and then earned an MBA from Wagner College.

She served as an aide to Gov. George Pataki and worked as a staffer to late Staten Island state Sen. John Marchi. She has served as a NY State Assemblywoman since 2011. “She always gets things done,” said Gov. Pataki. “As one of the only Republicans in New York City, she realized pretty early on that you had to reach across the aisle.”

As per the NY Post, Mallio-

takis was an unlikely contender for Mayor. She was an underdog when she registered in April as the first Hispanic woman running for mayor of NYC. Members of the Republican party labeled her as inexperienced, aloof and too independent. Republicans were originally rooting for Millionaire real-estate executive Paul Massey before he abruptly dropped out in June.

Another popular contender was retired NYPD Detective Bo Dietl, but the Republican Party barred him for a filing error.

Malliotakis herself was busy with other aspirations. She made a bid for Congress when Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm stepped down in 2015.

But Republicans preferred to back former DA Dan Donovan, saying he had more experience.

“Now Nicole is not waiting her turn,” said Adele Malpass, chair of the Manhattan Republican Party. “The grass-roots activists in the party were skeptical of her at first, but she has won everyone over,” says Malpass. “People are now blown away by how hard she works.”

Malliotakis also has backing from the Conservative Party.

“The leaders respect Nicole’s capability as an assemblyperson,” said state Conservative See De Blasio Challenged , page 38

Suspect in Stabbing Death of Jewish Andrea Catsimatidis, Daughter of NY Billionaire Man in Bklyn Arrested at JFK Airport to Assume Leadership of Manhattan GOP By: Max Rozwaski

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23-year-old Jewish man was fatally stabbed by his neighbor late Sunday night, according to a Yeshiva World News report Monday. The victim, Omri Dahan, was stabbed in the chest at around 11:30 PM, while his older brother, 29-year-old Ayal Dahan, was stabbed in the arm. The older Dahan was reported by doctors to be in stable condition following his hospitalization after the attack. Omri Dahan succumbed to his wounds at Beth Israel Hospital at around 12:30 AM, according to NY Daily News.

The victim, Omri Dahan, (pictured above) was stabbed in the chest at around 11:30 PM, while his older brother, 29-year-old Ayal Dahan, was stabbed in the arm. The older Dahan was reported by doctors to be in stable condition following his hospitalization after the attack. Omri Dahan succumbed to his wounds at Beth Israel Hospital at around 12:30 AM, according to NY Daily News.

“What happened was, the “What happened was, the Jewish (man) came home, the Haitian guy's car was Jewish (man) came home, the double-parked in front of Haitian guy's car was double-parked in front of his his driveway,” Both YWN and NY Daily News cited reports that the attacker blocked the brothers’ driveway, refusing to move his car despite Ayal Dahan repeatedly honking his horn. An aggressive altercation ensued which culminated in the suspect fatally stabbing Omri Dahan with a knife, and attacking Ayal Dahan as well. Following the incident, the suspect fled in a gray Volkswagen Jetta, according to police.

driveway,” a 28-year-old eyewitness told the NY Daily News Monday.

“The guy was beeping for 10 minutes straight and they were ignoring him,” the witness, Ricky Zawaki, said. “As soon as the guy came down to move the car, the Jewish kid got out of the car and started yelling at the man, saying, ‘Move your effing car.’ Zawaki said Ayal Dahan emerged from his home with a child gate, which he used to strike Jean-Paul in the head.

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resents yet another tragedy for the Dahan family, who lost their father, Shlomo Dahan, and son, Harel Dahan, in 2009, when the father and son fell into a toxic well they were attempting to vacuum at Jamaica’s Regal Recycling Company.

The suspect behind the stabbing, 41-year-old Djems JeanPaul, was arrested by NYPD homicide detectives while attempting to flee to his native Haiti, according to a NY Daily News report. Jean-Paul, who has no prior arrests, is facing manslaughter charges, along with assault and illegal weapons possession.

he new leader of the Manhattan GOP may be Andrea Catsimatidis, the daughter of billionaire talk show host, businessman, and former Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis. According to a Crain’s New York report this week, Andrea Catsimatidis is hoping to replace Adele Malpass, the outgoing Chairwoman of the Manhattan GOP. Malpass is leaving her post and relocating to Washington with her husband David Malpass, who was recently confirmed as the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for international affairs.

“She’s always been involved in politics,” John Catsimatidis told Crain’s New York, according to the new site. “All the stuff I did for governors and senators and presidents in my life. I think she’s very qualified, she’s out there running.”

“She’s always been involved in politics,” John Catsimatidis told Crain’s New York, according to the new site. “All the stuff I did for governors and senators and presidents in my life. I think she’s very qualified, she’s out there running.” Catsimatidis is the owner and CEO of Man-

The new leader of the Manhattan GOP may be Andrea Catsimatidis, the daughter of billionaire talk show host, businessman, and former Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis.

hattan grocery chain Gristedes Foods (the city’s largest), and is the owner and CEO of real estate aviation company the Red Apple Group.

GOP hopeful Andrea Catsimidatis separated from her husband, Chris Cox, in 2014.

Cox had a deep political lineage as the grandson of Richard Nixon, and the son of Ed Cox, the Republican Party chairman of the New York State GOP. As Crain’s New York noted, Adele Malpass was appointed by the elder Cox in 2014 to serve as head of the Manhattan GOP, replacing outgoing chair Dan Isaacs.

Catisimatidis official site, Catsimatidis.com, appears to present a case for its young subject’s leadership qualifications.

The site notes that Catsimatidis is currently an executive at her father’s Red Apple Group, working primarily in the Real Estate, Investment, and Insurance divisions. She is also a graduate of New York University’s Stern School of Business, and during her time as a student was named one of NYU’s 15 most influential students for the leadership skills she demonstrated as president of the NYU College Republicans.

The site notes that Catsimatidis also serves on the board of the DoughMain Education Foundation, which promotes children’s financial literacy, and is involved with organizations such as the Police Athletic League and the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Historic UWS Synagogue Being Demolished Despite Efforts to Save It By: Anat Ghelber

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t 212 West 93rd Street is a 94-year old synagogue named Congregation Shaare Zedek.

The congregation has long been dealing with trying to maintain that building and a 16-acre Jewish cemetery in Bayside, Queens which has been slowly deteriorating. Now, with the purchase of the synagogue by a real estate developer, the synagogue is being slated for demolition and conversion into condos.

The final decision regarding the synagogue was made

by State Supreme Court Justice Debra James on July 27th of this year. She ruled that real estate developer Ornstein Leyton Company could demolish the building and replace it with a planned 14-story condominium building. Three floors on the bottom will be preserved for Shaare Zedek and a new

been held since 1923. According to the neighbor who was interviewed, an email was sent out stating that, after the High Holy Days in September, the congregation would, "say goodbye to our space.” The president of the synagogue, Michael Firestone, has revealed that not only was upkeep of the building becoming difficult but that sale was a financially necessary move. The synagogue will ultimately be sold for $34.3 million to Ornstein Leyton Company. $18.3 million from the sale will be slated for construction of a At 212 West 93rd Street is a 94-year old synagogue named new synagogue, and $8 million Congregation Shaare Zedek. The congregation has long been for maintenance of the Bayside, dealing with trying to maintain that building and a 16-acre Queens cemetery that the conJewish cemetery in Bayside, Queens which has been slowly gregation is also responsible for. deteriorating. Now, with the purchase of the synagogue by According to Scott Leyton, a a real estate developer, the synagogue is being slated for partner with Ornstein Leyton demolition and conversion into condos.

Co., the congregation had origsynagogue. As a neighbor put as to not to offend anyone in the inally reached out to the real esit, “All options were exhausted... neighborhood who wished to tate developer seeking a partner to help save the congregation it’s a done deal.” The neighbor contend the decision. wished to remain anonymous so Services in Shaare Zedek have dealing with an “antiquated,

beautiful, but really nonfunctional place of worship.” As he stated, “We spent a long time in the collaboration on how our building fits their use. That was really the trick, having a winwin situation in as many places as we could.”

Plans are being made to preserve the stained glass and ceiling fixtures of the current synagogue, as well as build an outdoor space for the new synagogue’s second floor.

Efforts were made to prevent the demolition of the synagogue by residents of the local neighborhood who formed the West Nineties Neighborhood Coalition. They appealed to local area officials, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and Community Board 7. None of them could stop the planned destruction of the building and its conversion into condos. The decision by the State Supreme Court made it final.

De Blasio Continues to Postpone His Donor List’s Release

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n Friday, August 11, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he “has to find the time” to provide a list of campaign donors who didn’t receive favors from City Hall. He made a promise in May 2016 to release this information, which he keeps finding ways to postpone.

During his weekly appearance on WYNC radio, the mayor committed to a deadline for the revealing of the long-awaited list that the mayor called “a pretty small thing in the scheme of things.”

He was first asked if he could provide the list before the Democratic primary, to which he responded, “I commit to publish-

However, the mayor would provide no exact dates. He said, “I am not going to get into the micro-management of the oped. It’s a small thing, but I will get it done.”

On Thursday, August 10, the mayor’s GOP challenger, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, criticized the administrations lack of transparency and revealed a “count-up” clock to track how many days have passed since the promise to release the donor list was made by de Blasio.

The Post reports, “On May A year and a half has nearly passed since Mayor Bill de Blasio 18, 2016, de Blasio promised to promised to release the list of his donors. release examples of a ‘stunning ing an op-ed, and I have to find ed saying, “Sure,” when Lehrer number of donors and supthe time to do it, and I will try to asked if he could at least guaran- porters’ to his 2013 campaign do it as soon as possible.” tee the list by November 7, the and now-shuttered political nonprofit who came away De Blasio finally respond- general election.

“I commit to publishing an op-ed, and I have to find the time to do it, and I will try to do it as soon as possible.”

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The stationing of State Troopers at New York City airports has led to spending $26 million over budget.

The report also sited that the reason for the increase in spending was a class of State Police recruits that was much bigger than anticipated.

The increase was defended

by Cuomo’s budget division’s spokesman Morris Peters.

Peters said, "When State Po-

lice becomes aware of potential threats, additional resources are deployed to critical locations as security may require. The length of this assignment — which state police made out of prolonged security concerns — was not yet set during the initial budget. These adjustments

Critics say that Governor Andrew Cuomo is using the presence of State Troopers to bolster his reputation in the five boroughs.

are well within our framework and are exactly the reasons why we do these updates."

According to the report, the total of the State Police’s budget, including the adjustments to the spending, was $653.3 million.

The Daily News reports,

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However, the productions of it has yet to be seen.

Cuomo Stations State Troopers at NYC Airports Pushing Spending $26M Over Budget he controversial decision by Governor Andrew Cuomo to station state troopers at airports in New York City is costing millions of dollars more than originally expected. Critics say that Cuomo’s reason for posting the troopers is merely to bulk up his reputation throughout the five boroughs.

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Tensions with N. Korea Skyrocket Wall Street’s ‘Fear Gauge’

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n Monday, August 14, without permission from the city, a California bikesharing company placed 300 dockless share bikes across New York City.

According to City Councilman Eric Ulrich, the San Francisco-based company, Spin, is dropping 150 rigs throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn and another 150 in the Rockaways. He supports this move by the company, despite the fact that only Citi Bike has a contract with New York.

Ulrich said, “Bike sharing represents the future, and I don’t believe we should be protecting Citi Bike as a monopoly. Citi Bike has a contract to have docks on city property and that’s fine, but the city has to let bike riders and New Yorkers decide who they want to pay.”

According to The Post, “Unlike Citi Bikes, which must be picked up from and brought back to a station after each use, dockless bikeshare companies use cycles with self-locking technology that customers can access through an app. They can then pick up and leave the bikes anywhere. Transit advocates fear dockless bikes could be a disaster.”

A source familiar with the operations told The Post, “They litter the streets everywhere they go. have to go somewhere and they end up in the middle of sidewalks and in dumpsters and in the way

The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index last week.

Citi Bikes has the only contract with New York.

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n Thursday, August 10, several provocative remarks by President Trump and rising tensions with North Korea seemed to unnerve investors.

According to an article in last Thursday’s New York Times, “The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index closed the day down 2.13 percent, and the broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fell by 1.45 percent as investors sold out of such high-flying stocks as Amazon, Facebook and Netflix. It was the sharpest daily decline in the benchmark City Councilman Eric Ulrich supports the unauthorized invansion S.&P. 500 since May 17. Gold of New York City by dockless bikesharing company Spin held at $1,283.70 an ounce after week, residents of London were its strong run of late, and the of everything.”

Officials have said that since so furious when a company called Nikkei 225 index in Japan steadthe spring the city has been oBikes was launched, littering the ied from its fall on Wednesday, scouted out by at least five rogue parks and sidewalks, that city offi- closing at 19,730. The relative dockless bike companies, who cials were forced to begin seizing attempted to sway officials. Last the bikes.

Monsey Jews Protest 'Anti-Semitic Abuse' of 3-Year-Old Boy Jewish residents of Monsey, New York say 3-year-old boy was violently thrown into squad car after he was locked out of his home By: David Rosenberg

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embers of the Jewish community in Monsey, New York are up in arms over the alleged mistreatment of a threeyear-old haredi child who was reportedly thrown into the back of a police squad car after being left outside of his home.

The incident occurred last Friday afternoon when the threeand-a-half-year-old boy returned home from summer school to find that the doors of his home were locked and no one appeared to be home.

A non-Jewish neighbor witnessed the boy sitting outside of the front door, and notified police.

Before a police squad car arrived, another neighbor, a member of the haredi community, took the boy inside his home to wait for his parents to arrive.

When the police came, they spoke with the neighbor who had taken the child in to wait for his parents, then left the scene, leaving the child in the care of the neighbor.

Shortly thereafter, however, the officers returned, saying that they were obliged to take the child to a local police station to wait for his parents, and that they

By Rachel Shapiro

Members of the Jewish community in Monsey, New York are up in arms over the alleged mistreatment of a three-year-old haredi child who was reportedly thrown into the back of a police squad car after being left outside of his home.

could not leave him in the neighbor’s custody.

Witnesses say that the child was frightened by the prospect of leaving his neighborhood with the officers, and that the officers threw the boy into the back of the squad car.

“The boy was thrown like a sack of potatoes into the car,” a witness said, Behadrei Haredim reported.

After waiting at the station for roughly an hour, a relative came to pick up the boy and take him home.

The boy’s family and witness-

es claim the police mistreated the child, throwing him into the back of the police care with no apparent concern for his well-being, and that no steps were taken to calm the terrified boy, who was so frightened that he wet his pants during the drive to the station.

Outraged members of the local haredi community blasted the officers’ behavior, and organized a protest, scheduled for 4:00 p.m. local time Sunday.

“Dear Monsey residents,” See Monsey Jews Protest , page 37

safety of United States Treasury securities continued to appeal, with the yield on the 10-year note falling to 2.20 percent from 2.25 percent on Wednesday. (Yields and prices move in opposite directions from each other.)”

A jump in the VIX, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, was at the root of the nervousness of investors.

The index measures the expectations that investors have for sharp moves in the stock markets future, and is known as Wall Street’s fear gauge.

On Thursday, August 10, the VIX went from historically low levels to its highest close since November’s Election Day, 16.04, which was an incredible increase of 44 percent. For most of this year the index remained in single digits, which was fairly

unusually low.

The NYT reports, “The index’s long period of placidity amid constant upheaval in Washington has posed a persistent riddle for Wall Street prognosticators. Some analysts warned that expectations of low volatility had lured a rush of recent investment, particularly from retail investors piling into exchange traded funds tied to the S.&P. 500, the Nasdaq and other indexes and strategies. A sharp upward trend in the VIX could well prompt many of those newcomers to flee at the same time, which could turn a market downturn into something more severe. The potential risks extend beyond those who are new to the party. In recent years, hundreds of billions of See Tensions with N. Korea , page 37

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Upcoming Sale of $65M Tribeca Penthouse Could Be Historic Deal

Brooklyn Soundstage Company Acquires SI Prison for $7M

By: Asher Schlesinger

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$65 million penthouse in the 70 Vestry Street condominium is now in contract, according to a Wall Street Journal report last month. The penthouse, located on the condo’s top two floors, could potentially become the most expensive ever sold in downtown Manhattan, beating out Walker Tower’s penthouse, which closed for $50.9 million in 2014, as Curbed.com noted in July. The condominium is under development by Related Companies, whose executive vice president, Benjamin Joseph, declined to reveal the prospective buyers or sales price.

Designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern, the 70 Vestry condominium features an 82-foot pool, yoga facilities, a gym, and a squash court, according to the Real Deal, along with billboards, a library, and a café.

“As this coveted development moves forward and meets major construction milestones, we continue to see great buyer confidence,” Joseph said in a statement in March.

“A penthouse of this caliber has never before been offered in

A $65 million penthouse in the 70 Vestry Street condominium is now in contract, according to a Wall Street Journal report last month. The penthouse, located on the condo’s top two floors, could potentially become the most expensive ever sold in downtown Manhattan, beating out Walker Tower’s penthouse, which closed for $50.9 million in 2014

Tribeca, and may never be again.”

The likely sale of the 70 Vestry penthouse arrives in the wake of other lucrative real estate deals this year, including the sale for $60.8 million of an apartment in the 96-story 432 Park Avenue condo on “Billionaire’s Row.” A four-bedroom apartment in the One57 condo tower on West 57th Street also sold for $45.8 million this year.

Designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern, the 70 Vestry condominium features an 82-foot pool, yoga facilities, a gym, and a squash court, according to the Real Deal, along with billboards, a library, and a café.

The potential buyer (or buyers) of the $65 million, 7,800 square foot penthouse remain anonymous, at least for the time being. The penthouse boasts 3,700 feet of outdoor space, along with five bedrooms, four kitchens, a wrap-around roof deck, and a solarium. Current tenants of the luxury Vestry Street condominium include New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his wife, Giselle Bundchen.

The couple purchased a $20 million apartment in the condo last year, according to Curbed.

The report noted that the building is still undergoing construction, with move-ins expected around Spring of next year.

Plan to Rezone Midtown Manhattan is Approved by City Council

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n Wednesday, August 9, a rezoning plan was unanimously approved by the City Council for a section of Midtown Manhattan. The new zoning rules will improve public spaces and subway stations while permitting the neighborhood to fill with densely packed high-rise office buildings.

The New York Times reports, “The change will also allow several buildings with landmark status, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral, to transfer their unused development rights to building sites anywhere in the affected 78-block area. The rezoned blocks, known as East Midtown, run from East 39th Street to East 57th Street, from Third to Madison Avenues. The rezoning, which has been in the works for five years, is intended to revitalize what was once the core of corporate activity in New York City. The area is home to more than 250,000 jobs and generates about 10 percent of the city’s property tax revenue. But the buildings

“The goal is to improve East Midtown not to simply keep it as it is.”

Democrat Councilman Daniel R. Garodnick, who represents the East Midtown area, was the main sponsor of the rezoning bill that was approved last Wednesday.

are relics of the ‘Mad Men’ era, with an average age of 75 years, according to city officials.”

New state-of-the-art buildings located on the Far West Side in the Hudson Yards project and in Lower Manhattan at the new World Trade Center complex have been the choice locations for big employers to move their companies to, abandoning their prior Midtown homes. Since the Mayor Bloomberg era, city officials have been searching for ways to make Midtown East more appealing.

The rezoning proposal presented by Bloomberg was stopped by Council members and community leaders who opposed the plan, saying it

gave too much leeway to developers without enough guaranteed public benefits. The recent revised plan is supported

by Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said it links the construction of big buildings in the area to “real-time improvements in its public transit and public realm.”

The main sponsor of the bill that passed Wednesday was Democrat Councilman Daniel R. Garodnick, who represents the East Midtown area. He said that more development will be permitted by subway stations, which he described as “certainly the right place to put lots of new density.”

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ew York state has closed on a $7 million acquisition with the Greenpoint-based soundstage company Broadway Stages for a 69-acre former prison facility in Staten Island. The new facility is expected to draw in lots of television and movie productions that are looking to film authentic jail scenes.

Broadway Stages agreed to invest $20 million for maintenance work, renovations and the future construction of six soundstages in the old Arthur Kill Correctional Facility as part of the acquisition. The facility sits on the water’s edge in Staten Island’s neighborhood of Rossville.

The recent popularity of prison-themed shows, like Orange is the New Black, are increasing productions’ needs for jail locations, Broadway Stages president and CEO Gina Argento told Crain’s. She explained that her company can gain an edge over its city competitors by having a prison facility in its portfolio.

Argento said, "A lot of productions have had to go Upstate to film prison scenes. To have a prison in the city that has such a feeling of authenticity to it is going to be very attractive to a lot of productions that are otherwise based in the city."

According to Crain’s, “Broad-

Arthur Kill Correctional Facility in Staten Island will be given new life as a stage for productions. (Photo Credit: Empire State Development)

way Stages won a state solicitation for buyers of the site over three years ago, but was delayed in part in closing on the deal by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. DiNapoli's office had directed scrutiny at Argento after her name arose in an investigation by federal and state prosecutors into Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign fundraising.

Through a lawyer, Argento had said she felt pressured to donate to de Blasio. The soundstage firm has been using the site for some productions in recent years as it awaited closing on the purchase agreement, Argento said. NBC's Blindspot and The Blacklist as well as the blockbuster, all-female Ocean's 8 have shot there.

As part of the deal, Broadway Stages must invest $20 million

in the property, which houses 45 different buildings in addition to the jail, over the next five years.”

Argento said, "The first thing we're going to do is maintenance and repair work to restore plumbing and water and electricity to the buildings. The first step is to bring everything back to code."

While the facility is being used for productions, the other buildings on the site will probably function as office space, Argento told Crain’s.

A jail containing 400 cells is the properties core piece. Up until 2011 it was used to house male inmates.

"It really has that scary factor.

It's not the kind of place you'd want to get locked in overnight,” Argento said.

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Jeffrey Kaplan’s Meadow Partners Buys Manafort’s Daughter & Son-in-Law 146 UWS Condos at Discount Price Owe NY Tax Collectors $51K By: Hellen Zaboulani

By Rebecca Gold Meadow asserts management over ecords show that a New York state tax approximately $24 billion warrant of sizable proin real estate assets portions is out on the across Manhattan and daughter and son-in-law of Brooklyn

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n Friday August 11th, Meadow Partners purchased the Axton Building at 733 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The block of 146 residential condominiums was acquired from Starrett Corp. for $61.3 million. As reported by The Real Deal, that is 40 percent below the $105 million asking price for the property when it was first listed a year ago. In 2013, Starrett, a division of Larry Cohen’s Pembroke Companies, converted and renovated the 28-story rental building into a condo property. The luxury building boasts a 24 hour doorman, gym, and roof deck.

The rent regulated apartments have an alternate address of 169 West 95th Street.

To finance the purchase Meadow Partners, founded in 2009 by Jeffrey Kaplan, took out a $55 million loan from Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies, as per property records. Meadow asserts management over approximately $24 billion in real estate assets across Manhattan and Brooklyn. It’s well-known acquisitions include the Bedford Hotel at 118 East 40th Street,

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ing. Meadow is also developing rental apartments in Downtown Brooklyn.

Representatives from Starrett Corp. and Meadow Partners did not publicly comment on the transaction. Mark Zborovsky, the listing broker, shrugged off On Friday August 11th, the discounted price, saying the Meadow Partners purchased asking price was set higher than the Axton Building at 733 what they thought the apartAmsterdam Avenue in ments would go for. “The asking Manhattan’s Upper West Side. price is always a lot higher …

The block of 146 residential substantially higher even than condominiums was acquired what I think the block would from Starrett Corp. for $61.3 sell for,” he said, noting that the million. As reported by The spread between the sales and Real Deal, that is 40 percent asking price is “not a reflection below the $105 million asking of the market.” price for the property when it Still, this is not the first inwas first listed a year ago stance where the asking price $50 million for a Comfort Inn was cut. Just last month, Simon hotel on 35th Street, and Hotel Baron Development lowered 35 in Herald Square. In 2016, the asking price on its 159-unit the real estate investment firm rental building on the Upper paid $42 million for a factory in West Side’s 75th Street to $85 Williamsburg Brooklyn, which million, slashing $30 million off it converted into an office build- of the 2015 listing price.

NYC Teachers Get Higher Reimbursement in Election Season By: Hadassa Kalatizadeh

Paul Manafort served as campaign manager for the presidential campaign of Donald Trump in 2016.

Yohai’s appeared.

According to a story published in the NYT last Wednesday, in July the Virginia home of Paul Manafort was raided by federal investigators who were hired by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Crain’s reports, “It is unclear whether any of these activities are linked to Mueller's investigation of possible collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign. The elder Manafort spent several years working for ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, and had to resign from Trump's campaign last year after ledgers surfaced showing illegal lobbying payments from the deposed Kiev government to the veteran political operative.”

New York State tax collec-

tors are not only going after Manafort and Yohai. Outstanding warrants ranging from a few hundred to thousands of dollars have been issued on multiple LLC’s that are linked to President Trump himself, including TTTT Venture III LLC, Ace Entertainment Holdings Inc., Trump Mortgage LLC, and DT Marks Bali Member Corp. However, many of the warrants are dated from earlier this year, which was after Trump came into officeand resigned from his companies.

Less than two weeks after Trump was inaugurated, a 2015 New York tax warrant was settled for $1.45 million

by Daewoo, the South Korean conglomerate that in 2001 partnered with the president to build the Trump World Tower.

ATTENTION ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS!!

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ust months before City Council members and Mayor de Blasio stand for re-election, city teachers have been granted a historic boost in reimbursements for classroom supplies. This year, teachers will be allowed to seek $250 in reimbursement for out of pocket expenses on supplies such as markers, scissors and reward stickers. Last year the maximum amount was only $103. The one-time $250 payment, which will need to be renegotiated annually, incudes school nurses, as well as physical and occupational therapists. While most view the allocation in a positive light, the timing for the grant is questioned. This wasn’t the only perk city educators received from city hall. Just recently, de Blasio’s administration announced it would give public school workers 50,000 parking placards.

The teachers union lobbied for the increase, which was then proposed by the City Council and approved by the Mayor. The teachers union is a powerful past and present supporter of de Blasio. As reported by the NY Post, City Hall critic Evan Siegfried called this

Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager who is caught up in controversies along with his kin.

According to a warrant filed by the Department of State earlier this year, Jessica Manafort and Jeffrey Yohai, who are currently in the process of getting divorced, owe Albany $51,403.45. The couple’s assets can be seized as well as wages garnished, if they fail to respond to the warrant and create a payment plan with the state.

In June, The New York Times reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigations was interested in a series of high priced property ventures in Manhattan and Los Angeles that Manafort and real estate investor Yohai took part in.

Currently Yohai has been hit with a lawsuit in New York for a Ponzi scheme he allegedly running a Ponzi scheme, and last year in California many of his limited liability companies went into bankruptcy.

Jessica Manafort’s claim to fame came when hackers released on the internet text messages taken from her father’s iPhone, in which her name and

UFT President Michael Mulgrew retorted, “Are these critics prepared to start a fund to pay for the classroom supplies that thousands of kids rely on?” The UFT says that on average teachers spend $500 out of their own pockets on materials “from telescopes to butterflies” to help engross students

the largest payment in the 30year history of the Teacher’s Choice program and said it smells like a de Blasio gift to the union.

“This is a transactional mayor. He will do favors for those who do favors for him, be it a big donor or a union endorsement he needs,” said Siegfried.

“Just like when corrupt donors help his campaign, the UFT [United Federation of Teachers] expects to be repaid in the mayor’s pay-to-play style,” Siegfried added. “De Blasio is trying to shore up as many allies as he can because the only

results he’s gotten as mayor is a vagrant on every ¬corner.”

UFT President Michael Mulgrew retorted, “Are these critics prepared to start a fund to pay for the classroom supplies that thousands of kids rely on?” The UFT says that on average teachers spend $500 out of their own pockets on materials “from telescopes to butterflies” to help engross students. “This is something that we have been fighting for several years,” said City Council Education Committee Chairman Daniel Dromm. He called the allegations “ridiculous.”

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Uber Spent Over $1.2M in Lobbying Drama Directed by Safdie Bros is Major Effort to Influence NY Legislators Break as UK Actor Stars in Lead Role By: Mendel Asimov

By: Menachem Rephun

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ber, the popular on-demand taxi service, pulled out all the stops in the first half of 2017, spending over $1.2 million as part of a lobbying effort to influence legislators to legalize ride-hiring, according to records cited in a NY Daily News report Sunday. The spending placed Uber among the most active lobbyists in Albany during the first half of this year, and took place while the NY State Legislature weighed a measure allowing the operation of ride-sharing companies in Long Island and Upstate New York. The measure ultimately passed, as the NY Daily News report noted, no doubt thanks to the efforts of Uber and related ride-sharing companies, at least in part.

Citing lobbying disclosures Uber filed with NY State’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics, a report Monday by New York Law Journal.com noted that the San-Francisco-based company spent approximately $377,000 on six outside lobbying firms this year, including Metropolitan Public Strategies, Patrick Jenkins and Associates, and Mercury Public Affairs.

New York Law Journal added that Uber invested another $156,000 on in-house lobbyists between January and June of

B Uber, the popular on-demand taxi service, pulled out all the stops in the first half of 2017, spending over $1.2 million as part of a lobbying effort to influence legislators to legalize ride-hiring

2017.

Alix Anfang, a spokeswoman for Uber, told New York Daily News that most New Yorkers, including elected officials and small business owners, support ride-sharing "An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support rides sharing and elected officials, small business owners, clergy members and law enforcement officials had been clamoring for the service for years,” Gold told the outlet. “As a fresh face in Albany, we were committed to ensuring that the voices of New Yorkers were heard over those of the long-established special interests.”

According to the NY Daily News, Blair Horner, the exec-

utive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said Uber’s massive spending “correlates to the intensity of the lobbying and Uber was at the center of one of the biggest legislative fights this year."

The report noted that most of Uber’s spending was allocated towards ad campaigns, with the ride-sharing service spending over $504,890 on television ads supporting the pro-ride sharing legislation.

Horner attributed the legislation’s success at least partially to Uber’s aggressive lobbying.

"Spending that much doesn't necessarily guarantee victory,” Horner said, according to NY Daily News. “But it certainly helps.”

ritish actor Robert Pattinson first came to prominence with his role in the teen vampire series Twilight. Since then, the actor has moved on to heavier dramatic roles, the most recent being his performance in “Good Time,” a crime drama directed by Joshua and Ben Safdie. According to a NY Post report this month, Pattinson was fascinated by the brothers work after seeing a still from their 2014 drama “Heaven Knows What.” Pattinson was reportedly so taken with the photo that he emailed the Safdies in 2015, urging them to include him in their next project.

“I fell in love with the photograph,” Pattinson explained in an interview this month with Jimmy Kimmel. “We took a meeting and I was just overwhelmed with these guys.”

According to Josh Safdie, Pattinson told the directors that “whatever you are doing next, I want to be a part of — even if it’s catering.”

Initially, the brothers rebuffed Pattinson’s eager request, telling him bluntly that they felt he was unsuited for their next project. When that project, Uncut Gems, stalled, the directors relented, building Good Time

Joshua and Ben Safdie

around Pattinson, who portrays a character attempting to get his brother out of jail after a bank heist gone wrong.

“Rob [Pattinson] had a desire to get deep with a project and he looked to us and felt some type of connection to us,” Josh Safdie said in an interview with Business Insider this month. “Immediately it changed our budget, it changed everything.” Casting a well-known name like Pattinson proved to be a boon for the directors, whose previous work, including “Heaven Knows What” and 2013’s “Lenny Cooke,” had not garnered as much mainstream attention. “Good Time,” which premiered at Cannes, has earned critical acclaim for the

Safdie’s writing and direction, and Pattinson’s performance in the lead role. Ben Safdie also stars in the film as Pattinson’s mentally handicapped brother.

“Working with Rob sent a message to the industry saying we are willing to play the game,” Josh Safdie told Business Insider. “We are willing to work with the people that you guys have anointed as stars, and we'll work with them. And not only will we work with them, we'll do it in a way that will be so satisfying to them, that other actors will want to do it. We're seeing that, but Rob set the bar high.”

“Good Time,” released on August 11, is now playing in select theaters throughout the country.

4th Graders at East Village School Unearth Artifacts Missing for 58 Years By: Ellen Cans

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ourth-graders at East Village, now known as the Children’s Workshop School, have uncovered what lay buried for 58 years.

Hundreds of lost artifacts have been dug up from beneath the dusty cracks in the school’s floorboards. Now the items are on display at The City Reliquary in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in an exhibit, “Closet Archeology: An Accidental Time Capsule.”

Beneath the East 12th Street school, built in 1913, the dusty stashes found include tarnished 1946 wheat pennies, a copper buffalo nickel minted sometime between 1913 and 1938, Betty Boop and World War I buttons, a 1912 Highlanders baseball card from the pre-Yankees, Bazooka bubble-gum comics and even a petrified hamster. As reported by the NY Post, the excavated treasures also included a school savings deposit envelope with two bills from1935 and 1957, belonging to then 8-year-old student Alan Lederman. Teacher Miriam Sicherman tracked down two other Alan Ledermans until she found the correct owner. “I was stunned to learn that someone had found the money after all those years,” said Lederman, now a 67-year-old international tax lawyer in Florida.

The excavation began in 2015, when student Bobby Scotto, now

Complete Music & Entertainment Planning Services Fourth-graders at East Village, now known as the Children’s Workshop School, have uncovered what lay buried for 58 years.

Hundreds of lost artifacts have been dug up from beneath the dusty cracks in the school’s floorboards

12, was curious as to what might lay hidden beneath the surface.

“Then it hit me — there’s cracks in the closet where the door slides open. People are always walking in there. I was like, ‘Hey, they might have dropped some stuff down there,” said Bobby. “I looked into the crack, and in five minutes, my theory was proven right.” The entire class then joined him, using coat hangers or scissors to grasp tokens thought to be lost forever. Dust mites and rat skeletons did not deter the youngsters on their quest. Since then, other subsequent students have also pried open closet floorboards, revealing a trove of old things.

To enhance the exhibit, Larry Lederman, Alan’s brother and alumni, came in to meet current PS 61 students. He told the students how the school’s appearance had not changed despite the time lapse. He gave them a glimpse of his childhood, which was devoid of cell phones and tablets, but where they relished 15-cent pizza and 50-cent bowling. “The objects they found made them curious about the daily lives of their predecessors,” Sicherman said.

“They also began to see themselves as part of history — and realized that their own daily lives would be fascinating to kids of the future.”

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Big Hamptons Buyers Are Back, But Not Interested in Mega-Mansions

By Charles Bernstein

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ansions in the Hamptons are finally selling again, after a long period of inactivity.

Sotheby’s International Realty broker Beate Moore told Bloomberg News, “We’re coming out of a really down market.

It was very frustrating. But the market has picked up, and we’ve seen a surge of huge sales.”

Last month’s reported numbers support this. 48 homes costing at least $5 million were sold during the second quarter of this year, which is the most in nearly one and a half years, according to a report by Miller Samuel Inc. and Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

Bloomberg reports, “Now that wealthy second home buy-

ers are returning to the southern tip of Long Island, they have noticeably different criteria than their predecessors of 10 or even five years ago. Prices might be the same or even higher than before, brokers said, but the needs of an often younger, lessshowy buying set have changed.

One of the pronounced differences in taste has to do with scale. Drive through the Hamptons today and you’ll see mega-mansions built over the last 20 years or so, many with dozens of roof lines and such a variety of windows that it appears owners were given a catalogue and asked for ‘one of each.’

Echoing a trend already evident in places like Greenwich, CT, these monoliths have fallen from favor.

Paul Brennan, a Bridgehampton-based broker at Doug-

las Elliman Real Estate, told Bloomberg, “Those great big huge houses from the 1990s and early 2000s, they’re sitting.

I think that conspicuous consumption isn’t in vogue these days, and that’s why bigger isn’t better. The taste is: ‘I want it now, and I don’t want it huge,’

is too big, though, “that almost suggests an alienation factor between families, where everybody is in their own wing.”

It all really comes down to ease of use, when you are spending tens of millions of dollars you want to vacation in your vacation home, not work.

420 Ox Pasture Road in Southampton, which has 6,700 square feet and is listed for $29.995 million (Photo Credit: Corcoran Group)

The library, which comes with a fireplace, at 8 Dartmouth Road.

(Photo Credit: Corcoran Group)

32 Middle Lane in East Hampton, which has more than 8,000 square feet, and is listed for $29.95 million. (Photo Credit: Douglas Elliman)

and those substantial houses haven’t come down in price enough to either knock them down or renovate them to a certain standard.”

Besides personal taste, it seems that many people are realizing that it is not necessarily very fun to live in a mega-mansion.

Moore said, “I think there’s a different awareness. If you have a really large family, with grandchildren and staff, of course you want to accommodate everyone graciously.” When a house

Trump Owned Hotel in Washington D.C. Raking in the Big Bucks By: Anat Ghelber

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resident Donald Trump owns a hotel in Washington D.C. named The Trump International Hotel. It’s located in the renovated Old Post Office close to the Washington National Mall. Because of its owner being the President of the United States, even though the price rates for staying in a room there have been raised dramatically, the hotel is continuing to do a brisk business.

The amount of money that the hotel is making is apparently considerable despite prices being increased far higher, after Donald Trump became president, than had originally been planned. The Trump International Hotel has made about $18 million in revenue in only the first four months of the current year, according to the Wall Street Journal which had access to documents regarding the pricing. This is despite the fact that the hotel is charging guests up to 60% higher rates than has been planned. The price to stay in a room at the Trump International Hotel had been increased to $660 a day, as opposed to an average daily rate of $495 at other hotels in the area. According to the hotel documents, the hotel had originally only planned to charge $416 for a room daily. Even though the hotel had expected a $2.1 million loss, it instead made $2 million in profit during the four month period in question.

Financial records for the hotel are filed with the General Services Administration, which overlooks the lease used by the Trump Organization.

They have not made any comment regarding the hotel’s financial reports. Financial information of this sort is usually taken away from any records posted on the GSA’s website but the information was posted and visible as late as the the 17th of this month, according to the Wall Street Journal.

However, the financial documents were taken down later that same day.

A contract was signed in 2013 between The

Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC

Trump Organization with the U.S. government to lease out the Old Post Office (which has historical significance) and convert it into a deluxe hotel. It’s location near many Washington D.C. landmarks, as well as the White House, make it especially attractive to tourists and visitors.

Certain experts in ethics in business and government have cited the hotel as a sign that President Donal Trump is intertwining his business interests with that of his position as President and Commander-in-Chief. He’s been accused of making money off of the fact that he’s in this position as the President of the U.S., allowing his business interests to rake in money from those eager to be close to someone in power, or at least partake in a business owned by one.

As Sean Hennessey, a hotel consultant, related to the Wall Street Journal, “It appears that the hotel has been perceived as a place to be seen and have power lunches and that sort of thing. The numbers on the [food and beverage] side indicate it has that kind of cachet.”

Corcoran Group broker Debbie Brenneman said, “If you have a house that’s easy to maintain, obviously you don’t have to put as much time and money and energy into maintaining it.”

She added that smaller is merely relative. “If you go from 13,000 to 8,000 square feet, it’s still a large home.”

Just because a home is smaller, does not mean it is any less luxurious. Brennan said, “The bells and whistles are inside the houses. There’s no lack of that.”

Bloomberg reports, “Buyers

8 Dartmouth Road in Sag Harbor. It has 4,000 square feet and is listed for $5.3 million. (Photo Credit: Corcoran Group)

of houses— even ones fronting the ocean—want to have pools, while ‘smart’ homes filled with tech, elaborate outdoor seating areas, and homes with socalled ‘flexible’ layouts (meaning

they’re open plan, rather than having dedicated dining, living, and entertaining rooms) are in vogue. Brennan points to the See Big Hamptons Buyers , page 36

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Anti-Israel Curricula Used in World History Courses Across the Country

Vandalized Jewish Cemetery in St. Louis Rededicated

"Teachers are pulling things off the Internet, and a lot of it is fine, but a lot of it not"

Community thanks those who donated time and money to the clean-up effort

By: Rachel Frommer

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monograph published late last month of anti-Israel curriculum used in Newton, Mass., public high schools has led to revelations of similar materials in circulation at other school districts in the country, the report's researcher told the Washington Free Beacon on Thursday.

Steven Stotsky of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) said that since the release of his findings in "Indoctrinating Our Youth: How a U.S. Public School Curriculum Skews the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Islam," he has received phone calls alerting him to disquieting curricula being used in Michigan and California.

"We turned over a rock and discovered a significant problem," said Stotsky, about his deep dive into textbooks, articles, timelines, and maps used from at least 2011 to 2015— some possibly still in use—for World History course sections on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Islam in Newton's two public high schools, which are among the most prestigious in the country.

The materials included the

Steven Stotsky of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) said that since the release of his findings in "Indoctrinating Our Youth: How a U.S. Public School Curriculum Skews the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Islam," he has received phone calls alerting him to disquieting curricula being used in Michigan and California.

Arab World Studies Notebook, a textbook the American Jewish Committee has previously condemned as filled with "factually inaccuracies," "overt bias," and "unabashed propagandizing"; a

timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that almost entirely omitted instances of Palestinian terrorism; and a misrepresentative translation of the Hamas charter.

Stotsky said procedures must be established for vetting all materials brought into the classroom.

"Teachers are pulling things off the Internet, and a lot of it is fine, but a lot of it not. They can't just be giving this stuff to students," said Stotsky.

He questioned the decision to teach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a history class at all.

"History is complicated enough when you are studying issues that are 100, 200 years old," he said. "You further complicate things when you add current events, and the Israeli-Palestinian issue is still politically and ideologically active."

Stotsky's report was the first comprehensive study of these materials, which were only obtained after a years-long battle with Newton administrators by an ad-hoc group of parents and concerned citizens.

Questions about the Newton curriculum were first raised in 2011, but the school district delayed turning over the docuSee Anti-Israel Curricula , page 37

By: Faygie Levy Holt

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Jewish cemetery in St. Louis vandalized back in February—an incident that captured attention around the world—was rededicated on Sunday after an extensive restoration effort.

More than 150 tombstones had been damaged at the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery over President’s Day weekend, some irreparably. Clean-up, refurbishment, and in some cases, complete replacement were in order. The cemetery was established in 1888 and continues to be used today.

“Jewish law, halachah, places a great deal of emphasis on the respect we should give to the deceased,” says Rabbi Yosef Landa, regional director of Chabad of Greater St. Louis and a rabbinic adviser to the Chesed Shel Emeth Society. “As far as we are concerned, a cemetery is a baishachayim, a ‘house of life,’ because the neshamah [soul] continues to live. It is not the end of a person when he or she dies; it’s a transition into a different form of life.”

Continues the rabbi: “Our obligation is to treat them as people in the here and now.

That is the essential difference of those of us who understand

Rabbi Yosef Landa, regional director of Chabad of Greater St. Louis and a rabbinic adviser to the Chesed Shel Emeth Society, speaks during an Aug. 6 rededication ceremony marking the completion of repairs at the cemetery, six months after vandals toppled more than 150 headstones. To his left is Alan Simon, president of the Chesed Shel Emeth Society. (Photo: Bill Motchan/St. Louis Jewish Light)

and have respect for the people buried there—people who might not be bodily with us, but are still with us nonetheless—as opposed to the depraved people who desecrate cemeteries and who have a complete disregard for the deceased.”

Following the attack on the cemetery, thousands from across the country and beyond sent funds to help pay for repairs, while many others showed up in person to lend a hand and voice their concern,

including Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and even Vice President Mike Pence.

According to Anita Feigenbaum, executive director of the Chesed Shel Emeth Society, the significant public outpouring of support sent a “very strong message to those that did this act or those who contemplate doing this kind of act: We won’t stand for it. Caring and goodness will succeed.”

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Democratic Senators Concerned about Extremist Summer Camp for Palestinian Americans By: Rafael Medoff

major divisions of the Quaker for an explanation,” a spokesperson for the senator told JNS. movement.

Senate Minority Leader org. wo prominent U.S. senMalcolm Hoenlein, execuators are raising ques- Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said tions about an Amer- the evidence gathered by JNS. tive vice chairman and CEO of ican-funded school in org concerning Go Palestine is the Conference of Presidents of Ramallah that is running an “disturbing” and that USAID Major American Jewish Organiextremist summer camp for “must immediately investigate zations, told JNS.org, “I endorse Palestinian teens from around it.” Schumer added, “If true, this the calls by Senators Schumer the world, many of them school should be cut off because and Cardin for an investigation Americans.

The controversial summer program, called “Go Palestine,” is run by the Ramallah Friends School, a 148-year-old Quaker institution in the Palestinian Authority’s de facto capital. Its stated mission is to provide Palestinian teens from abroad with “introductions to Palestinian culture, cuisine, life and work, and the Arabic language.”

But in addition to traditional summer camp fare, Go Palestine participants are immersed in anti-Israel films and lectures by militants, some with terrorist connections.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), pictured here at the 2017 AIPAC The U.S. Agency for Interna- Policy Conference, said the evidence gathered on the Go tional Development (USAID) Palestine summer camp's anti-Israel activities is “disturbing” and gave the Ramallah Friends that USAID “must immediately investigate it.” Credit: AIPAC School $800,000 in 2016 to make various improvements to entities that receive USAID to make sure that no U.S. govits facilities. USAID also sent should be teaching about de- ernment funds are being used, the school $700,000 in 2015, mocracy and coexistence—not directly or indirectly, to support a camp that promotes BDS or $900,000 in 2014 and similar intolerance or extremism.”

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is a other anti-Israel extremism.” amounts in prior years, through A USAID spokesperson told its “American Schools and Hos- longtime supporter of USAID’s pitals Abroad” program. The assistance to overseas schools, JNS.org the agency “has not school is owned and operated but “the allegations described provided any support to the ‘Go by the Indiana-based Friends are quite concerning” and Car- Palestine’ program.” USAID’s United Meeting, one of the din “has reached out to USAID grants to the Ramallah Friends

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School, which hosts and operates Go Palestine, were “for construction and durable commodities,” including improvements to the buildings on campus. The USAID spokesperson did not address the fact that Go Palestine participants make use of those buildings on various occasions each summer.

on its website from 2011-2013 indicate Americans were the single-largest contingent. Other campers hailed from the U.K., Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.

Several came from what the website calls “Haifa, Palestine.”

Haifa is located within pre1967 Israel, not in the disputed territories. The camp’s use of

A summer camp activity of the “Go Palestine” program, at the Israeli security fence along the border with the disputed territories. Credit: Facebook.

Rejecting Israel’s existence

oppressor. A panel on “Youth Activism and Engagement in Palestine” featured representatives of “the Love Under Apartheid Campaign [and] the BDS movement.” Officials of a group called “Right to Education” explained to the campers that all Israeli universities should be boycotted, since they are part of “the structure of systemic oppression.”

This summer’s campers heard “an inspiring lecture from Nasser Ibrahim,” whom the camp describes as “a renowned journalist, author, and teacher.” Ibrahim has been associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group. He has served as editor of the PFLP weekly publication El Hadaf, and is deputy director of the Palestinian Union of Health Work Committees, which USAID has characterized as a PFLP affiliate.

The 2016 and 2015 campers visited “the monument erected for the Martyrs of Birzeit.” The monument, on the campus of Birzeit University near Ramallah, memorializes students who were killed while engaging in violence against Israelis.

The 2015 campers met in Bethlehem with “ex-prisoners,” and heard about their “experience in the Israeli occupation jails.” Palestinian “ex-prisoners”

“Haifa, Palestine” is one of the many indications that rejection The three-week Go Palestine of Israel’s right to exist is an inteprogram, which began in the gral part of the camp’s ideology.

The camp’s own descriptions summer of 2011, accepts 4050 campers each year. It costs of each year’s activities from $2,150 per camper, plus airfare. 2013-2017 report that the teens Although the camp has not re- are shown films such as “Ocleased a complete breakdown cupation 101” and “Jerusalem: of the participants by national- The East Side Story,” which ity, the “camper profiles” shown depict Israel as a racist, savage See Democratic Senators Concerned, page 36

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Trump on Charlottesville: “Racism is Evil” – Calls White Supremacists “Criminals & Thugs” Continued from page 1 challenge for white people like himself to "confront that as white people, how has this identity been used to…make money at the expense of other people, even when we don’t mean to."

"There’s a kind of everyday violence in whiteness that goes beyond white supremacy," he added.

Wilson's friend, Zach Pace, said he was at the protest to "show solidarity with all our citizens. I'm here to tell President Trump right outside his property that we don’t respect him, we don’t respect his values, and that we don’t want him representing us.

Also reported by the Gothamist web site, Heshy Friedman, a 57-year-old Orthodox Jew from Flatbush, was part of the counter protest, holding a sign that said "Google Orthodox Jews Voted For Trump / We Will Again In 2020."

"there is a better way to remove these monuments,” according to a report in USA Today.

For nearly two hours earlier Monday, protesters in Nashville urged Tennessee's leaders to finally take action and remove a bust of Confederate soldier and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state Capitol in Nashville.

They sang songs such as This Little Light of Mine and voiced their frustrations in chants— “White silence is violence,” “Which side are you on?” and “Tear it down.”

Ultimately, they made their way from the Forrest bust between the House and Senate chambers to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam's office, demanding an answer from him on the issue.

In Minneapolis, hundreds marched the streets in Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside neighborhood and a Nazi was burned in effigy. The march started at

alist violence in Charlottesville, Va., and to excoriate President Trump.

The demonstrators rallied on the steps of City Hall with speeches condemning racism and xenophobia, then marched through the streets of downtown, chanting: “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA,” “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here,” “Black lives matter,” and other slogans.

Demonstrators across US protest racism, Trump after Charlottesville violence

Kristen Clarke with the non-profit Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “When it comes to the safety and the security of our communities, too many of which now feel targeted by hate-fueled protestors, two days is too late.”

Late Monday, Trump lashed out at the media for its coverage of the last two days.

“Made additional remarks on Charlottesville and realize once again that the Fake News Media will never be satisfied ... truly bad people!” the president wrote on Twitter.

Charlottesville, Virginia.

“The World Jewish Congress unequivocally condemns the inconceivable violence exhibited at the neo-Nazi demonstration today in Charlottesville. Our prayers are with the victims of this violence and their families.

“It is utterly distressing and repugnant that such hatred and bigotry still run rampant in parts of this country. There is no place On Monday, for the first time since the violence in in our democratic society for Charlottesville, Trump mentioned by name neo-Nazis, the Ku such violence and intolerance.

Klux Klan, and white supremacists as “criminals and thugs ...

We must be vigilant and unitthat are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” ed in our opposition to such He vowed that anyone who committed “racist violence” in abhorrence.

Charlottesville would be held accountable, and said what happened in the city was an “egregious display of hatred, “We commend the CharlotJewish Leaders bigotry and violence.” tesville authorities and local govRespond ernment for their quick action “It should not take two days World Jewish Congress Presi- in quelling these protests and reand a national tragedy for the dent Ronald S. Lauder on Satur- storing calm, and sincerely hope president to take action and dis- day harshly condemned the vioSee Trump on Charlottesville , page 36 avow white supremacists,” said lent Neo-Nazi demonstrations in

Suspect in Charlottesville, Va. car-ramming identified as 20-yearold James Alex Fields, Jr. of Ohio. Those who knew him said he had a fascination with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement.

Heather Heyer was a 32-yearold paralegal who had gone to the rally to protest against the white nationalists. She was killed when she was hit by a speeding car driven by suspect James Alex Fields, Jr 20, into a group of counter protesters.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder harshly condemned the violent Neo-Nazi demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Friedman, a consultant, said he was unperturbed by the sight of neo-Nazis in Charlottesville.

"The college campuses are being infiltrated by Muslim radicals, which is due to Obama bringing in hundreds of thousands of them," Friedman said. "If there's anyone whose bringing protection, it's Trump. It's one of the main reasons the Orthodox Jewish community voted for Trump."

USA Today also reported that in Washington, Metro D.C. Police said demonstrators were marching from Lafayette Park across from the White House up Pennsylvania Avenue toward Trump International Hotel and the Capitol building. In Durham, N.C., protesters met near a Confederate monument downtown, then toppled the statue, according to WNCN-TV. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper called the deadly violence in Charlottesville "unacceptable" via Twitter Monday night and said

5 p.m. outside the Minnesota GOP headquarters and protesters eventually headed downtown, blocking some roads and light rail tracks as they went, police said.

In Naples, Fla., more than 150 people attended an anti-hate vigil Monday night at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Greater Naples in response to the violence over the weekend in Virginia.

"We are appalled by the display of hate and bigotry in Charlottesville," said Jeffrey Feld, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Collier County. "We are horrified and sickened by the messages that were spewed. But we must stand together as people who believe in the good of mankind."

The Los Angeles Times reported that on Sunday hundreds of protesters marched peacefully through downtown Los Angeles to denounce the white nation-

For the first time since the violence, Trump mentioned by name neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and white supremacists as “criminals and thugs ... that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” He vowed that anyone who committed “racist violence” in Charlottesville would be held accountable, and said what happened in the city was an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence.”

The far-right groups held the rally to protest plans by Charlottesville to tear down a statue of General Robert E. Lee. Lee was the leader of the Confederate forces that fought against federal forces in the Civil War from 1861 until 1865. The war was essentially about slavery in the South.

Statues of Lee and other Confederate generals have become the center of demonstrations in several cities across the nation.

Bowing to overwhelming pressure, Trump’s comments in Washington on Monday afternoon followed intense criticism from across the political spectrum for failing for two days to explicitly use the words white supremacists and neo-Nazis in condemning the violence.

After remarking about the upsurge in the economy and the optimistic job growth figures, Trump declared that “racism is evil” and swiftly denounced the White supremacist movement and their historic credo of vociferous hatred towards minorities, gays and Jews.

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Swiss Hotel Posts Signs Ordering Jews to Shower Before Swimming

China to Implement UN Sanctions on North Korea

By: Gary Willig

By: Walter Metuth

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haredi family from Israel received a shock when they found an anti-Semitic sign at the Swiss hotel at which they were vacationing.

The family had found the Aparthaus Paradies Hotel in the town of Arosa, Switzerland online. Previous guests had given the hotel positive ratings.

However, when the family arrived at the hotel, they were greeted by a sign instructing all Jewish guests to shower before and after using the swimming pool.

The sign read in broken English: "To our Jewish guests, men women and children, please take a shower before you go swimming and also after swimming."

The sign contained a threat to ban Jewish swimmers if they failed to comply. "If you break the rules, I'm forced to close the pool for you."

"Thank you for understanding, Ruth Thomann," the sign concludes.

"After we reserved rooms at the hotel, we talked to the woman in charge, who was very nice to us," the father explained to News 2 Online. "We told her we were Jewish and she told us that a lot of Jews come there. She

A haredi family from Israel received a shock when they found an anti-Semitic sign at the Swiss hotel at which they were vacationing.

brought us what we needed for the baby. After we arrived, she was very nice."

However, shortly after they settled in the hotel, they noticed a sign on the refrigerator saying that the Jewish guests were limited in using it.

"For our Jewish guests: You are allowed to access the refrigerator only in the following hours: 10:00-11:00 and 16:3017:30," the sign read. "I hope you understand that our team does not like being harassed every time."

"We were in shock," the father explained. "No one approached her because we did not want to start a confrontation, but the

next day the other sign suddenly appeared at the pool, and that was very frightening."

He said that they attempted to speak with the hotel director about the offensive signs, but she was nowhere to be found.

"It was very strange," he continued. "Even the non-Jews did not understand - there is a very nice group of Jews here from all over the world - there are hardly any Israelis here [so it is not anti-Zionism] and everyone behaves in a very respectful way. It was very strange. It was a kind of anti-Semitism we have not been exposed to before."

The offensive signs have been taken down.

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German Man Gets 5 Years in Jail for Role in Nazi Pedophile Cult By: Jason Goldmeister

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German court on Monday handed a five-year prison term to a doctor who fled Chile after being convicted there of complicity in child sex abuse at a Nazi pedophile sect.

The court in the western city of Krefeld upheld the Chilean prison sentence of five years and one day for Hartmut Hopp, a German citizen in his 70s, for the abuses committed at the notorious Colonia Dignidad commune.

The ruling is not yet final as his lawyer has announced plans to appeal, the DPA news agency reported.

Hopp was the right-hand man of convicted pedophile Paul Schaefer, a former Wehrmacht soldier who in 1961 founded the commune where residents were indoctrinated and kept as virtual slaves over three decades.

Schaefer also collaborated with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, whose secret police used the colony, about 350 kilometres (215 miles) south of the capital Santiago, as a place to torture and "disappear" his opponents.

The German court recalled that Hopp was convicted in Chile in 2011 of crimes including complicity in the sexual abuse of 16 minors, but fled to Germany before the final court ruling was imposed.

The court in the western city of Krefeld upheld the Chilean prison sentence of five years and one day for Hartmut Hopp, a German citizen in his 70s, for the abuses committed at the notorious Colonia Dignidad commune.

Last year prosecutors in Krefeld requested that Hopp serve out the prison term in his country of origin, in line with a Chilean request, and the court has now agreed.

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights greeted the ruling, calling it a long-overdue first step "in the resolution of the crimes of Colonia Dignidad, in particular rape and sexual abuse of minors".

It warned that Hopp had already fled Chilean justice once and said that authorities "must prevent a possible escape of Hartmut Hopp".

Germany last year said it

was declassifying its files on the sect, and the foreign minister at the time, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, admitted that the diplomatic service had failed to stop the abuses.

The scale of the atrocities came to light only after the end of Pinochet's regime.

Schaefer in 1997 faced a series of lawsuits and fled Chile.

He was arrested in Argentina in 2005 and subsequently convicted in Chile for sexual abuse of children, weapons possession and human rights violations.

He died in a Chilean jail in 2010 at the age of 88 while serving a 20-year sentence.

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hina announced Monday it will cut off imports of North Korean coal, iron ore and other goods in three weeks under U.N. sanctions imposed over the North's nuclear and missile programs.

China, the isolated North's main trading partner, has been reluctant to push leader Kim Jong Un's regime too hard for fear it might collapse. But Beijing is increasingly frustrated with Pyongyang and supported a U.N. Security Council ban on Aug. 5 on coal and other key goods.

The Chinese customs agency said it will stop processing imports of North Korean coal, iron and lead ores and fish at midnight on Sept. 5.

"After that, entry of these goods will be prohibited," said an agency statement.

The announcement follows an escalating exchange of angry words between Trump and Kim's government. Trump declared the U.S. military "locked and loaded" while Pyongyang threatened to fire four missiles into the waters near the U.S. territory of Guam.

Tourists haven't been deterred from visiting the tropical island of Guam even though the U.S. territory has been the target of threats from North Korea

Tourists haven't been deterred from visiting the tropical island of Guam even though the U.S. territory has been the target of threats from North Korea during a week of angry words exchanged by Pyongyang and Washington.

during a week of angry words exchanged by Pyongyang and Washington.

Chiho Tsuchiya of Japan heard the news, but she decided to come anyway with her husband and two children. “I feel Japan and Korea also can get danger from North Korea, so staying home is the same,” said the 40-year-old.

Won Hyung-jin, an official from Modetour, a large South Korean travel agency, said several customers called with concerns, but they weren't worried enough to pay cancellation fees for their trips.

“It seems North Korea racks up tension once or twice every year, and travelers have

become insensitive about it,” Won said. His company has sent about 5,000 travelers to Guam a month this year, mostly on package tours.

The U.S. territory has a population of 160,000, but it attracted 1.5 million visitors last year.

One-third of Guam's jobs are in the tourism industry.

The latest U.N. sanctions are intended to block North Korean exports worth $1 billion _ a significant share of total exports valued at $3 billion last year.

China stopped importing North Korean coal in February but total trade has risen, which prompted U.S. PresiSee China to Implement , page 38

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Jabotinsky, Gush Katif, Amona By: Helen Freedman

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FSI proudly sponsored its annual Jabotinsky Memorial program this past Thursday, August 3, on the 77th anniversary of Jabotinsky’s death. The event, chaired by AFSI’s Co-Directors, Helen Freedman and Judy Freedman Kadish, was held at the Park East synagogue with an overflow crowd of over two hundred people in attendance. Ambassador Dani Dayan, Consul General of Israel in New York was the featured speaker. His message about Jabotinsky’s 1923 “Iron Wall” speech was riveting. He emphasized that if people had listened to Jabotinsky’s words, that there could be no peace with the Arabs, and that the only way to deal with them would be by creating an “iron wall” of strength, many

lives, and much time and energy could have been saved, and could still be saved.

David Hatuel, former resident of Gush Katif, whose pregnant wife and four daughters were brutally murdered by Arab terrorists in 2004, spoke to us in Hebrew, with Dror Vanunu, Gush Katif Representative, translating for him. Tali Hatuel and her children were murdered the year before the Sharon decree to expel the 9,000 Jews from the 21 communities of Gush Katif. Sharon, who had campaigned on the fact that Gush Katif was the security belt for southern Israel, and was recorded stating that Gush Katif and Tel Aviv were equally vital to Israel, had totally reversed himself. Not only did the expulsion take place, with Israeli soldiers, tanks, and demolition crews entering the communities, physi-

This August, 2017, twelve years after the expulsion, David Hatuel, his new wife and five children, along with the members of the former Katif community, are still living in caravans, or trailers

of re-telling his excruciating story, was in the NY/NJ/LI area this past week, hosted by AFSI, to visit many venues as a guest speaker.

Thanks are extended to all those, too many to mention here, who extended wonderful hospitality to him and helped him to raise funds. It is his hope that sufficient AFSI was guided to the proposed building site on donations will be given so that a its last trip to Israel, May new synagogue can be built in memory of Tali Hatuel and her 2017 children.

The KARMEI KATIF SynaThis August, 2017, twelve gogue would be located in the years after the expulsion, David new Karmei Katif community Hatuel, his new wife and five chil- in Lachish, where David and dren, along with the members of his neighbors hope to finally the former Katif community, are build and move into permanent still living in caravans, or trailers. homes. Those wishing to contribIs this an “Iron Wall” of strength ute to this effort should contact and support for the Jews of Israel, AFSI: 212-828-2424. Tax deductor a cowardly betrayal with false ible checks can be made out to Friends of Gush Katif and mailed promises?

David Hatuel, despite the pain to AFSI at 1751 Second Ave., NY cally removing the residents, and destroying everything, but the promise that afterwards ‘THERE WOULD BE A SOLUTION FOR EVERY FAMILY” was blatantly broken.

From left to right: Helen Freedman, Executive Director of AFSI, Mark Zweibon – AFSI Board, Rael Isaac – AFSI Board, Outpost Editor, Ambassador Dani Dayan, Consul General of Israel in NY and Judy Freedman Kadish, AFSI Board Member

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One would have thought that Israel and its leaders had learned enough about inflicting pain on its Jewish residents with the Gush Katif failed experiment. Such is not the case. Jews have been expelled from homes in Beit-El and Ofra, and other communities are

being threatened.

Most glaringly, the entire community of AMONA has been leveled with promises made, once again, that new homes would be built for the refugees.

That took place months ago.

See Jabotinsky, Gush Katif , page 37

Ambassador Dani Dayan, Consul General of Israel in New York (pictured above) was the featured speaker. His message about Jabotinsky’s 1923 “Iron Wall” speech was riveting.

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Israeli Magnate Accused of Bribery: Soros Funding Campaign Against Me By: i24 News

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sraeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz on Monday claimed that billionaire George Soros was behind charges against him after the country's national fraud unit detained him for suspected money-laundering involving alleged involvement in real-estate deals abroad.

Steinmetz alleged during his remand hearing that "Soros marked me [as a target]" and that his treatment was "customary in totalitarian states." He has previously accused Soros of funding a campaign against his business interests in the African nation of Guinea, according to Israeli daily Haaretz.

Police placed the diamond mogul under house arrest in December of 2016 as part of a corruption probe involving dealings Guinea.

The Israeli billionaire controls mining firm BSG Resources and was arrested as part of a wide-ranging investigation involving tens of millions of dollars and including authorities in Israel, Guinea, the United States and Switzerland, Israeli police said in 2016.

Steinmetz, along with four other unnamed individuals, is currently suspected of money laundering, falsifying documents, using fake documents, false registration of corporate documents, fraud, breach of

Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz on Monday claimed that billionaire George Soros was behind charges against him after the country's national fraud unit detained him for suspected money-laundering involving alleged involvement in real-estate deals abroad.

corporate trust, obstruction of justice and bribery.

The 60-year-old magnate was ordered to remain under house arrest and was not permitted to visit his Israeli offices. He was also forbidden from leaving Israeli territory and his Israeli and French passports have been confiscated.

Austrian media reported on Monday that Tal Silberstein, an adviser to Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern, was also among those detained, but there was no official confirmation.

In 2016, BSG Resources issued a statement calling the allegations against Steinmetz "baseless".

"This development is in the aftermath of ongoing and what BSGR believes to be obsolete investigations against BSGR which were initiated by the government of Guinea since Alpha Conde came to power in 2011 to expropriate its assets," the statement said.

"BSGR has repeatedly demonstrated that these allegations of bribery are not only baseless, but are a systematic attempt by the current government of Guinea to cover up the endemic corruption which has blighted Guinea."

The West African nation has huge untapped deposits of diamonds, gold and uranium.

After his election as president in 2010 following years as an opposition leader, prisoner and exile, Conde launched a radical review of permits allotted under military dictator Lansana Conte.

The highest-profile victim of a permit withdrawal was the VBG consortium formed in 2010 by Brazilian mining giant Vale and Steinmetz's BSGR. VBG was stripped of its concession in Guinea's Simandou mountains, a southeastern region estimated to contain the world's biggest untapped ironore deposit.

Conde said in 2014 that a probe had cleared Vale of any involvement in or knowledge of BSGR's allegedly corrupt obtaining of the permit. (I24 NEWS)

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Daughter of US Ambassador David Friedman Makes Aliyah to Israel By: Yoni Kempinski

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S Ambassador to Israel David Friedman’s daughter made Aliyah to Israel on Tuesday, along with 232 other immigrants from North America brought on a special flight chartered by Nefesh B’Nefesh.

Ambassador Friedman met his daughter, Talia Friedman, on the tarmac to welcome her to her new home.

“We’re so proud of our daughter Talia,” Friedman told Arutz Sheva. “She’s always wanted to live in Israel and she’s realizing her dream and the whole family is just very proud of her. We’re here to just greet her and to give her a hug and to wish her hatzlacha rabba [success] here in Israel. We’re very excited.”

“We’re so proud of her, we love her so much, we just want her to be happy and this is something she always wanted to do. She loves Israel, we all love Israel, our whole family loves Israel, and this is her dream.”

Talia, a nurse, was the only one of Friedman’s five children who joined him on May 15th when he flew to Israel and was formally received as the US Ambassador to Israel.

When asked what his daughter’s plans were, Friedman said she would likely continue to work as a nurse, but was unsure of where she would live.

“She’s going to live wherever

US ambassador to Israel David Friedman with his daughter Talia, who just made aliyah, at a ceremony for new immigrants from North America arriving in Israel

she wants, that’s up to her. She’ll make her decision, she’s a big girl, she’ll decide for herself.”

“She’s a nurse. She was trained as a nurse, she worked in a hospital in New York and she’ll probably do the same thing here. Hopefully she’ll bring refua [healing] to people here in Israel.”

Ambassador Friedman praised the Nefesh B’Nefesh mass-Aliyah charter flight, saying American immigrants to Israel helped to strengthen the connection between the two countries.

“What’s amazing is that you have so many Americans coming to Israel and they’re going to remain American but they’re going to become Israeli so you have this whole group of Israeli-Americans and I think they add a lot to both countries. And it’s very encouraging to see the connection strengthened between Israel and America.”

They are moving as “lone soldiers,” a term for those who leave their families abroad to move to Israel and volunteer for the IDF. There are currently 1,000 lone soldiers from the US and 3,000 lone soldiers from around the world serving in the IDF. The flight’s other newcomers include a diverse mix of people from 19 US states and two Canadian provinces, including 21 families, 75 children, 6 sets of twins and 26 medical professionals.

Friedman is not the only member of President Donald Trump’s team to have children arriving in Israel this month. Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s special representative for international negotiations tweeted on Sunday that his triplets are headed to the Jewish state for a gap year program of Jewish studies, the Times of Israel reported.

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Trump Reps Headed Back to Israel, Will Try Again To Re-Start Talks

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Mossad Chief Cohen: Iran’s Regional Influence is Growing

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rime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would welcome representatives of the Trump administration to Israel in the next few weeks, as the latest installment in a push to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Trump’s Senior Advisor (and

Trump’s Senior Advisor (and son-in-law) Jared Kushner and Special Envoy for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt will head the delegation, which is expected to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah and will also include Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Powell.

Palestinian sources have said they feel that Washington has lost the ability to serve as an impartial broker because of strongly pro-Israel personalities in the administration, namely Kushner, Greenblatt and Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (pictured above)

son-in-law) Jared Kushner and Special Envoy for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt will head the delegation, which is expected to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah and will also include Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Powell. No date for the visit has been announced.

Trump has placed a premium on brokering an Israel-Palestinian agreement, calling it the “ultimate deal,” but his efforts have heretofore met with little success. Two weeks ago, Kush-

Rare Second Temple-Era Treasures Discovered in Galilee The Land of Israel constantly reveals hidden treasures, testifying to its rich history and the Jewish people’s deep and long-lasting ties to the land.

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rare workshop for producing chalkstone vessels, dating to the end of the Second Temple Era and the Roman period, was recently discovered at Reina, in the Lower Galilee.

council.

This is the fourth workshop of its kind ever to have been uncovered in Israel, with an additional workshop currently being excavated just one kilometer from the site. The previous two sites were uncovered decades ago in the Jerusalem area.

material seems to have been religious. As Adler explains, “According to ancient Jewish ritual law, vessels made of pottery are easily made impure and must be broken. Stone, on the other hand, is material which can never become ritually impure, and as a result ancient Jews began to produce some of their everyday tableware from stone.

Although chalkstone vessels are well-known at many Jewish sites throughout the country, it is extremely unusual to uncover a site where such vessels where actually produced.”

Scrupulous Regarding Purity Laws

A rare workshop for producing chalkstone vessels, dating to the end of the Second Temple Era and the Roman period, was recently discovered at Reina, in the Lower Galilee.

The digs center on a small cave in which archaeologists have found thousands of chalkstone cores and other types of production waste, including fragments of stone mugs and bowls in various stages of production.

Like many other archeological finds in Israel, the ancient site was chanced upon during the course of construction work at a municipal sports center conducted by the Reina local

Dr. Yonatan Adler, senior lecturer at Ariel University and director of the excavations on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), explained, “In ancient times, most tableware, cooking pots and storage jars were made of pottery. In the first century of the Common Era, however, Jews throughout Judea and Galilee also used tableware and storage vessels made of soft local chalkstone”.

The change in the choice of

ran is filling the vacuum left as ISIS’s hold on territory in Syria and Iraq wanes, Mossad head Yossi Cohen warned Sunday.

In a briefing to government ministers, Cohen said that Iran was spreading its influence both directly through Iranian forces and via local proxies in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Cohen also told the ministers that Tehran had not relinquished its goal of becoming a nuclear threshold state and that

the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with the P5+1 helped Iran get closer to its goal and emboldened it in its regional aggression. Cohen added that since the nuclear deal was signed, Iran’s economy has grown.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Cohen’s warnings were further proof that the P5+1 deal was seriously flawed.

Netanyahu said that Israel was not bound by international agreements signed by Iran, adding that it would continue to operate in various ways to protect Iran is filling the vacuum left as ISIS’s hold on territory in Syria and Iraq wanes, Mossad head Yossi Cohen warned Sunday

ner admitted that “there may be no solution” to the ongoing conflict, and in May Trump reportedly lambasted Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) for lying to him about anti-Israel incitement in the Palestinian Authority.

As a result, Palestinian sources have said they feel that Washington has lost the ability to serve as an impartial broker because of strongly pro-Israel per- Iranian lawmakers on Sunday voted to boost spending on sonalities in the administration, Tehran’s missile program. The bill allocates $260 million to Iran’s See Trump Reps Headed , page 37

“Our excavations are highlighting the pivotal role of ritual purity observance not only in Jerusalem but in far-off Galilee as well,” Adler added.

The excavations have revealed an artificially hewn cave from which ancient workers quarried the raw material for the chalkstone vessels. Ancient chisel marks cover the walls, ceiling and floor of the cave. Inside the cave and on the ground nearby are strewn thousands of stone cores, the ancient industrial waste from stone mugs and bowls produced on a lathe.

Hundreds of unfinished vessels were also found, apparently damaged during the production process and discarded on site.

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ballistic missile program and the same sum to the Quds Force – the extraterritorial arm of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (pictured above), which has been active in Iraq Syria and Yemen

itself from the Iranian threat.

Meanwhile, Iranian lawmakers on Sunday voted to boost spending on Tehran’s missile program. The bill allocates $260 million to Iran’s ballistic missile program and the same sum to the Quds Force – the extraterritorial arm of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), which has been active in Iraq Syria and Yemen. The Quds force is designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

Iran said the measures came in response to sanctions imposed by the US in August over Tehran’s missile program.

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Report: Jordan Asks Israel to Delay Return of Embassy Staff By: TPS

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ordanian authorities have asked Israel to delay the return of diplomatic staff to the Hashemite Kingdom, the Israel Broadcast Corporation (Kan) reported Sunday.

Embassy staff were evacuated on July 24 after a Jordanian delivery man stabbed an embassy security guard, Ziv Moyal, with a screw driver. Moyal responded by shooting the attacker, 17-year-old Mohammed al-Juoda, who was killed in the exchange. Another Jordanian man The Israeli embassy in Amman (pictured above). Jordanian was also killed. authorities have asked Israel to delay the return of diplomatic staff to the Hashemite Kingdom, the Israel Broadcast Corporation (Kan) reported Sunday.

Embassy staff were evacuated on July 24 after a Jordanian delivery man stabbed an embassy security guard, Ziv Moyal, with a screw driver The incident created a diplomatic storm between Jerusalem and Amman and aroused widespread fury in Jordan. Many Jordanians – including members of parliament – accused Moyal of “executing” al-Juoda and calling for Moyal to be tried in Jordan and executed. Jordanian authorities initially blocked Moyal – who enjoyed diplomatic immunity from prosecution as a member of the diplomatic staff – from leaving the country, leading Israel and Jordan to the brink of a major diplomatic

crisis.

Amman eventually allowed him to leave following back channel pressure from the international community, especially the United States. US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said the Trump administration “at the highest levels” had interceded with Jordan’s King Abdullah II to secure Moyal’s release.

But the move did little to diffuse tensions between the two countries. Both Abdullah and members of the parliament in Amman were further infuriated when Moyal returned to Israel to a hero’s welcome by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Abdullah accused the Israeli prime minister of making political capital out of the incident, while dozens of parliamentari-

ans called for the closing of the Israeli embassy.

Jordan says the country complied with its international obligations by allowing Moyal to leave but has called on Israel to investigate the incident and to punish Moyal.

Israel considers the 1994 peace treaty with Jordan as a key component of its overall security strategy, but the pact is widely unpopular on the other side of the border, where anti-Israel sentiment is rife amidst a population that is mostly of Palestinian origin and.

As part of the agreement, Israel supplies Jordan with 50 million cubic meters of water a year to deal with chronic drought conditions in the Kingdom.

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EDITORIAL

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Will the Real Fascists Please Stand Up?

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his past weekend, a bunch of white suprem- against the white establishment and were written ist thugs marched in Charlottesville, Vir- up as sort of deserving pats on the backs.

So, let's look at numbers here. The Vanguard ginia, protesting the removal of some Confederate statues. As repugnant and vile as these America organization mentioned above has, acpeople and their ideas are, they are guaranteed cording to the ADL, about 200 members in 13 the right to assemble and picket peacefully by our states and it claims the KKK has a membership Constitution. By all accounts the white racists had of 3000. No figures or even a website on Unite permits to demonstrate. Their protest was met by the Right is available. In contrast, the radical Left a bunch of highly organized thugs representing groups that include Black Lives Matter, the Stuthe radical Left who broke through police lines dents for Justice in Palestine, the Occupy Moveto attack the Unite the Right demonstrators with ment, Antifa and the thousands of university flame throwing materials, bottles and sticks lead- students who create havoc, burn down university ing to a full scale riot. There is no evidence that buildings, torch cars, evict by force white students from their dorms and the counter protestors prevent speakers whose had the legal right to be views differ from theirs on the streets. A vehicle to address audiences, apparently driven by a number in the tens of member of Vanguard thousands. And the America rammed into Radical Left does not what the NY Daily bother to get permits News referred to as for their anarchy. They the, "Anti-Fascist good are never called out guys," and killed a Left for their violence and Wing counter demonhatred because they strator. These were two groups of "haters" A vehicle apparently driven by a member of are the darlings of the battling it out on the Vanguard America rammed into what the NY Daily MSM. We decry and opstreets. We have no love News referred to as the, "Anti-Fascist good guys," for either. and killed a Left Wing counter demonstrator. These pose all anti-American, But let's get to the were two groups of "haters" battling it out on the anti-democracy, anti law and order moveMSM's coverage of this streets. We have no love for either. ments, be they from disaster. How was this event reported differently from, let us say, the the Left or Right. But let's stick to our rules of massive civil violence in Ferguson or Baltimore? law and give them the freedom to demonstrate The anarchy in these two cities were basically out- legally, peacefully and without violence. And to spokenly, overtly anti-white riots that led to the close, we note that the initial demonstration in burning down of white owned businesses, the Charlottesville was to protest the removal of statbeatings of whites and the injuries to dozens of law ues of heroes of the Confederate States. If they are enforcement officers. Yet, at no time, in any media taken down, we suggest that they be placed in a coverage were the perpetrators referred to as fas- museum dedicated to the history of the Democrat cists, racist white haters or terrorist thugs. Their Party that supported slavery, spawned and filled violence was attributed to the social ills plagu- the rosters of the KKK and until the mid 1960's ing these municipalities. They were described as still voted against civil rights laws. Let the sunlight merely acting out their well known grievances of truth shine on the party's legacy.

The China-NoKo Connection

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he recent incident in Virginia has overshad- Enough said about the intelligence and power of owed international news and to the average Trump.

We Americans, however, must be wary of what citizen the threats to our nation and the democracies in the western Pacific by North Korea we see, read and hear from our media sources. The Radical Left has now garnered almost total control (NOKO) have all but disappeared.

Throw in the daily repetition over the years of of our everyday sources of information. Together Iran's promises to destroy Israel and wreak de- with the power of academia, which includes our struction throughout the Middle East and you Leftist-union run K-12 system and the colleges come to realize the short attention span of the aver- with their 95% Democrat professors, we are in age American. We have taken our eyes off the real jeopardy of being undermined by a future genproblems to our nation's security. Our enemies eration of Soviet style cookie-cutter leaders. One relish the disruptions occurring within our cities party rule is in the offing unless we come to our senses and support a by all sorts of racists, strong two party sysboth Left and Right. tem, we are doomed to They and the mainpolitical totalitarianism. stream media joined Our voters must begin by the political enemies to explore sources of of President Trump information other than will be quick to take the MSM. advantage of national They must cast off disagreements and will their laziness in just attempt to neutralize turning on the TV or President Trump in merely picking up the any future decisions he makes concerning the China agreed to ban imports of NOKO's iron, lead local newspaper in domestic and interna- and coal as part of the new U.N. sanctions on order to learn of the tional scenes. Anything Pyongyang. Statements in the Chinese run state happenings locally and he says and attempts to newspaper, Global Times on Friday said that if North around the world. They do will be challenged by Korea attacks the U.S., China would remain neutral. must involve themselves in discussion the MSM and the Demgroups and forums, welcoming in speakers with ocrats claiming he can do nothing right.

But hold the phone! If you recall, just last week differing viewpoints.

Our colleges must recruit more conservative the world seemed to be on the brink of a nuclear confrontation in East Asia. The media pundits and professors and our public school systems have to the likes of such political whiz-kids as Elizabeth select the brightest from among their teacher apWarren and Maxine Waters hammered away at the plicants. At this point, many who stand before president for putting us on the verge of all out war.. our kids in classrooms know little more than the However, just this Monday, China agreed to ban brighter kids they are employed to teach. No one imports of NOKO's iron, lead and coal as part of can deny that our educational system from top to the new U.N. sanctions on Pyongyang. Statements bottom has been dumbed down dangerously over in the Chinese run state newspaper, Global Times the years to the extent that we are now vulnerable on Friday said that if North Korea attacks the U.S., as a democracy. A smarter, well informed citizenry China would remain neutral. In other words, our will keep us secure from the powers that be in the clueless, ignorant president has apparently won this MSM. At this point, the radicalized, slanted, news battle of chicken. This crisis may be over. Trump industry is more of a danger to our security than may have been the winner in this battle of nerves. NOKO and Iran put together.

AUGUST 18, 2017

Letters to the Editor Art Critic’s Contempt for the Holocaust Dear Editor: Jason Farago, art critic, in his review of the Eichmann exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, “Eichmann in Manhattan: See the Glass Cage From His Trial” has succeeded in making our very sad world sadder. Farago and the NY Times manage to accomplish two feats at once in publishing this “review.” It manages to use the Holocaust victims butchered by Eichmann’s ‘master plan’ to more efficiently murder Jews, to blame Israel. And, by distorting historical context, ensures we will repeat genocidal extermination of a people again because we fail to learn from history. This is quite an accomplishment in one piece.

When Eichmann was tried in 1961, the Holocaust’s details and murders were not well known yet by the world. Israel had every right to capture, and try, in a court of law, this war criminal who was living a comfy life in Buenos Aires, along with other Nazis whom the world ignored.

Wikipedia: “The trial and the surrounding media coverage sparked renewed interest in wartime events, and the resulting increase in publication of memoirs and scholarly works helped raise public awareness of the Holocaust.The trial received widespread coverage by the press in West Germany, and many schools added material studying the issues to their curriculum.

In Israel, the testimony of witnesses at the trial led to a deeper understanding of the impact of

the Holocaust on survivors, especially among younger citizens who had never suffered state-sponsored oppression.”

Yet Farago attempts to re-write history with his absurd, rambling, garbled attempts to moralize by blaming Israel for ‘illegally’ capturing this war criminal: “legal repercussions don’t much trouble “Operation Finale,” whose overly pat narrative may reflect its genesis within an Israeli government institution…”

Towards the end of WWII, the Nazis were throwing Jewish children alive into the crematoriums to cover up their crimes as the Allied forces were descending upon them. Eichmann proudly stated “I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”

And so for Jason Farago’s moral bankruptcy, I sentence you to spend a week in a Holocaust Museum without food, drink or a toilet. Perhaps then you might review an art exhibit on the Holocaust with less contempt for the victims, less contempt for Israel in capturing a war criminal of the worst proportions and despite this, treating him fairly at his trial, and have more sympathy and respect for the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust and their offspring.

Sincerely,

Ginette Weiner

Tax on Tobacco Consumption?

Dear Editor: The New York City Council passing legislation previously proposed by Mayor Bill de Blasio last April to raise the cost of a pack of cigarettes from $10.50 to $13 just like past increases will not discourage consumption. The growth of so called illegal street corner, bodega and deli cigarette sales known as "loosies" 2 for $1 will rise in proportion to periodic government increases in taxes on the purchase of cigarettes. This once again will occur when Mayor de Blasio signs this bill and it becomes law. Many consumers will just travel past the city line to stores selling cigarettes in neighboring Connecticut, Nassau County, New Jersey and Westchester communities to patronize stores offering lower prices.

The underground economy will make an even greater fortune selling untaxed cigarettes.

Both the City and State will see an increase in the loss of millions in uncollected tax revenues.

Why sell hard drugs, when you can sell cigarettes with virtually no penalties? Consumption of tobacco has been part of mainstream America, transcending generations. Despite the best

efforts of government to limit consumption via excessive taxes and smoking restrictions, just like alcohol prohibition in the 1920s — both are doomed to failure. These actions infringe on citizens civil and economic liberties.

Creative entrepreneurs will always provide what citizens desire, regardless of government approval. Consumers have voted with their dollars, making tobacco consumption a multi-billion dollar enterprise today.

Our tax dollars would be better used if police and judges spend more time prosecuting those who commit real crimes against individuals or property than going after those who sell "loosies". Law enforcement authorities should be free to pursue those who commit real crimes against citizens and property.

At 18, you are old enough to vote, be a parent, pay taxes, own a car, take out a bank loan, serve in the military and die for your country — but not consume tobacco. This makes no sense.

Sincerely,

Larry Penner

Disappointed in Chaim Deutsch Dear Editor: I was walking along Avenue M and saw signs for Marat (Meir) Filler running for City Council. I am writing this letter to urge everyone to vote for him. He is a Russian Baal Teshuva, and a small business owner, I am confident that if he is elected he will do a fantastic job. He is running against an incumbent city councilman Chaim Deutsch who’s been betraying our community since he got elected. Councilman Deutsch has voted for the bag “tax” bill (1223) mandating all grocery stores charge us for every bag they give us.

Councilman Deutsch has voted for a bill that forces all business owners to hire (318) convicted criminals, taking away our rights to self determine who is a security concern for business including those that del with our most valuable

resource our children. Most importantly Councilman Deutsch voted (819) to take away all specific protections for religious institutions in the city’s gay rights law. By voting for this bill Councilman Deutsch clearly states that he truly represents the homosexual community and not the Jewish community. That when homosexuals try to infiltrate our yeshivas, shuls, and mikvas, that the homosexual activists shall take preference to the Torah, thus stating clearly that yeshivas are secondary to the gay agenda.

Chaim Deutsch has betrayed us financially, physically, and spiritually, therefore let us then vote for his opponent Marat Filler, and vote save our selves, and our community!

Sincerely,

Abraham Cohen

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China Is Our Last Diplomatic Hope for North Korea By: Ambassador John R. Bolton

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ormer National Security Advisor Susan Rice acknowledged last week that America's policies regarding North Korea's nuclear-weapons program over the last three administrations had failed. She said, rightly, "You can call it a failure. I accept that characterization of the efforts of the United States over the last two decades."

Former Vice President Al Gore said much the same. They should know. They served under President Bill Clinton, who started things rolling downhill with the Agreed Framework of 1994. This misbegotten deal provided Pyongyang 500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil annually and two light-water nuclear reactors in exchange for the North's promise to abandon its nuclear-weapons efforts.

Pyongyang violated its promise before the ink was dry. In 1999, former Secretary of State James Baker denounced Clinton's approach as "a policy of appeasement." Baker's characterization also applies to much of the subsequent U.S. diplomacy. North Korea has always been willing to promise to abandon its nuclear ambitions to get tangible economic benefits. It just never gets around to honoring its commitments.

After 25 years of failure, we need not tarry long (or at all) on

more diplomacy with Pyongyang. Fred Ikle once characterized the North as capable of "boundless mendacity." He was being charitable. Talking to North Korea is worse than a mere waste of time. Negotiations legitimize the dictatorship, affording it more time to enhance its nuclear and ballistic-missile capabilities.

Today, only one diplomatic option remains, and it does not involve talking to Pyongyang. Instead, President Trump should urge President Xi Jinping that reunifying the Korean Peninsula is in China's national interest. This is a hard argument to make, requiring reversal of decades of Chinese policy. It should have been broached years ago, but it is still doable.

There is now growing awareness in China that maintaining the two Koreas, especially given the current nuclear crisis, does not benefit China long-term.

Historically, the Korean Peninsula's 1945 partition was always intended to be temporary.

Kim Il-Sung's 1950 invasion of South Korea and three years of ultimately inconclusive war resulted in hardening the bifurcation into its current manifestation. Beijing has backed the status quo, believing that North Korea provided a buffer between Chinese territory and U.S. military forces.

Maintaining its satellite, however, has been expensive and risky. China has long supplied

more than 90 percent of the North's energy needs, and vast quantities of food and other assistance to sustain Pyongyang's gulag. China has also expended enormous political and diplomatic energy, costing it precious international credibility, to protect the North's erratic regime.

respects more troubling than America.

Confronted by this new, deeply threatening reality, Beijing's views on Korean reunification are ripe for change. China has never applied its uniquely strong economic leverage on Pyongyang because it feared so

John Bolton writes: “Today, only one diplomatic option remains, and it does not involve talking to Pyongyang. Instead, President Trump should urge President Xi Jinping (pictured above) that reunifying the Korean Peninsula is in China's national interest.”

Initially, China saw the North's nuclear and ballistic-missile programs as a problem for America, Japan and South Korea rather than itself.

That notion has disappeared, however, under the harsh prospect that today's nuclear crisis will be merely the first of many with North Korea. Moreover, Japan is now increasingly likely to seek its own nuclear capability, a nightmare for China in some

doing could cause catastrophic collapse of the North's regime.

That would in turn produce two unacceptable consequences: massive Korean refugee flows across the border into China, and American and South Korean troops crossing the DMZ and quickly reaching the Yalu and Tumen Rivers.

The answer to China's fear of uncontrolled collapse is a jointly managed effort to dis-

mantle North Korea's government, effectively allowing the swift takeover of the North by the South. China can start by quietly bribing the Kim regime's top military and civilian officials, offering political asylum and a safe exile for them and their families in China, while simultaneously cutting off energy and other supplies to the North. Seoul can also offer inducements to key North Korean leaders, reminding them what life could be like in a post-Kim world.

Simultaneously, massive information efforts should be launched throughout the North to spread word quickly on what is happening. The population may lack cell phones and the Internet, but they are far more aware of the outside world than conventional stereotypes. The end of North Korea, and hence the end of its nuclear threat, would be inevitable. The process will undoubtedly be dangerous and somewhat chaotic, but far less so than a completely uncontrolled collapse. And whatever the risks, they pale before the risks of nuclear conflict emanating from the erratic Kim regime.

Washington can offer Beijing two assurances to assuage its concerns. First, we would work closely with China to prevent massive refugee flows either into China or South Korea. Our common interests here are clear.

Second, as the North begins to collapse, allied forces would

necessarily cross the DMZ to locate and secure Pyongyang's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons stockpiles and to maintain civil order.

These forces would ultimately reach China's border, but we can commit to Beijing that Washington will not station troops there for a sustained period. Instead, we would pledge to base virtually all U.S. military assets near Pusan at the Peninsula's southern tip, to be available for rapid deployment around Asia.

They would not constitute a watch on the Yalu.

The alternative to this last available diplomatic play is military force. The imperative of protecting innocent American civilians from the longterm threat of North Korea's nuclear capability dictates that we should be willing to strike those capabilities pre-emptively.

But before that, who will argue against this one last realistic diplomatic effort?

(GATESTONE INSTITUTE)

John R. Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is Chairman of Gatestone Institute, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of "Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad".

This article first appeared in The Hill and is reprinted here with the kind permission of the author.

US Diplomacy: When Failure Became An Accepted Option By: Meir Jolovitz

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t’s been said by many, in various forms, that “hindsight is everyone’s favorite perspective.” The problem is, few grasp when “it” is happening until “it” has happened.

Political analysts and pundits are seemingly in concert: the most disquieting crisis that confronts our world today is the realization that North Korea presents a horrifying threat that remains unchecked. It didn’t have to be.

When Susan Rice, President Obama’s National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2017, admitted this past week that the two-decade-old US strategy on preventing North Korea from obtaining a nuclear capability was a “failure,” our hindsight was offered some unclouded perspective.

And yet, it was her other comments that made us understand that the lessons of history remain unlearned. Rice, with a criticism directed at President Donald Trump, opined that pragmatism dictates that we should simply accept, and tolerate, a nuclear North Korea.

Worse was the quiet acquiescence: “The fact of the matter is, that despite all of these efforts, the North Korean regime has been able to succeed in progressing with its program, both nuclear and missile. That’s a very unfortunate outcome; but we are where we are.” Rice added: “It will require being pragmatic.”

Pause to laugh, and cry.

In 1967, a couple of years be- only ally in the Middle East as what allies are, thanks in great measure to the US State Departfore he achieved notoriety as the well. Ergo, the Jewish stake.

Times have changed, and ment’s purposeful redefinition controversial founder and voice of the Jewish Defense League, with it, America’s foreign pol- of American interests in the Rabbi Meir Kahane co-authored icy. Israel is no longer consid- region.

One recalls the a book – The Jewish comment most often Stake in Vietnam – attributed to Charles whose implications de Gaulle: “Nations were largely ignored. don’t have friends, only One might still find it interests.” on the shelves of some Despite the very antiquarian book store, strong relationship but the book is largely that ostensibly exists lost. Its relevance, debetween President cades lately, offers food Trump and Israel – at for serious thought. great contrast with that While the book’s of his predecessor – his theoretical message State Department and was clear, the practical the National Security implications remain Council are still adundeniable. herents of ‘interests The radical rabbi before friends’. And, argued that the anthey mistakenly and ti-Vietnam war sentiquite foolishly attribute ment that had targeted American interests to the hearts and minds the wrong side. Govof a confused Amererned by the belief that ican population that the “occupied” territowas increasingly drawn ries and the settlements to slogans of “peace,” are the reason of the “liberation,” and impasse to the conflict “democratic freedom” In 1967, a couple of years before he achieved between Muslims and – would pressure its notoriety as the controversial founder and Jews, Trump is ready to government to aban- voice of the Jewish Defense League, Rabbi don an ally, South Viet- Meir Kahane co-authored a book – The Jewish dispatch his son-in-law to once again bridge nam. The implication, Stake in Vietnam – whose implications were the unbridgeable gap. seemingly unthinkable largely ignored. One might still find it on the In an oil-thirsty even to Jewish liberals shelves of some antiquarian book store, but world, the Muslim in the aftermath of Is- the book is largely lost. Its relevance, decades states (we include here rael’s victory in the Six lately, offers food for serious thought. of course, the IslamDay War, was that if the United States could not stand ered America’s only ally in a ic Republic of Iran) seemed to firm in its commitment to sup- still-troubled Middle East. In have gained a leverage that was port an ally in Southeast Asia, fact, the United States counts simply unthinkable in 1967. The it would one day be willing to many, mostly as a result of a Europeans seemed the first to abandon its commitment to its misbegotten reinterpretation of turn the other cheek when Arab

terror spread, still in its nascent stages – mostly one would think, because it was not their cheeks that were being most often slapped.

Over the years, the terror in Europe proliferated. And correlatively, so did the finger of blame that was directed at Israel.

As long as the Muslim antipathy was directed at the Jewish State – and more telling, Jews everywhere – the Europeans would assuage the perpetrators. It was Israel that was called to make compromises, territorial and (axiomatically) ideological. The more threatening and damaging the terror, the more shrill the calls for Israeli capitulation.

Undeniably, the greatest threat to the ever-elusive peace in the Middle East, and the invariable spill-over of violence into a Europe that is fast becoming a battlefield, is the terror that so many of its nations have voluntarily imported with the jihadis who carry the torch of Islam.

For what it’s worth, future historians will judge the North Korean crisis as the less significant one of our generation – simply because China is able to control it. The more formidable and dangerous threat is the nuclearization of Iran. The occasional terror attacks in Europe, murderous as they are, pale in comparison.

In kind, the geopolitical threat that has already been unleashed – remarkably with more support than opposition by the West – is the facilita-

Meir Jolovitz writes, “Undeniably, the greatest threat to the ever-elusive peace in the Middle East, and the invariable spill-over of violence into a Europe that is fast becoming a battlefield, is the terror that so many of its nations have voluntarily imported with the jihadis who carry the torch of Islam.”

tion of an Iranian nuclear capability. With the overt and covert support of the Obama Administration – despite its denials – the Iranians were fast changing the rules of the game.

Unless stopped forcibly in the next year or two, Iran will be in possession of the bomb. Correction: bombs.

Meanwhile, the new Trump foreign policy team, despite its frequent criticism of the Obama-Iran nuke deal, has done virtually nothing. Worse, it has twice certified that Iran remains compliant. Of a deal that Trump called “the worst in diplomatic history.”

Yes, allies are often sacrificed on the mantle of political expeSee US Diplomacy: When Failure , page 37

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Charlottesville is What Happens When Extremists are Empowered By: Daniel Greenfield

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n Dallas, a black nationalist activist shot and killed 5 police officers at a Black Lives Matter anti-police rally. Instead of condemning BLM, Barack Obama defended a racist hate group whose role model is Assata Shakur, a wanted black nationalist cop killer, at the funerals of the murdered officers.

The left killed civil rights and replaced it with black nationalism. The racial supremacism of black nationalism that killed those officers is everywhere.

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi are lionized as brilliant thinkers instead of hateful racists, Amazon has ordered a black nationalist secessionist fantasy from Aaron McGruder and Showtime aired ‘Guerilla,’ a miniseries glamorizing Black Panther terrorism.

But racism is a two-way street.

So is violence. Extremists feed into each other.

You can’t legitimize one form of racism without legitimizing all of them. The media may advance this hypocritical position.

Obama used the shameful “reverse racism” euphemism that distinguishes between black and white racism. But propaganda and spin don’t change the physics of human nature.

Either all racism is bad. Or all racism is acceptable.

Charlottesville is what happens when you normalize racism and street violence. Every normalization of extremism equally normalizes the extrem-

ism of the opposite side.

A civil society depends on a consensus. ‘Racism is bad’ is an example of such a consensus.

If you normalize black nationalism, you will get more white nationalism. If you normalize leftist street violence against Trump supporters, you will also get more street violence against leftists.

Extremists want to eliminate the consensus of civil society.

They want to destroy the idea that there’s any solution except violence through confrontations that show the helplessness of civil society.

That’s true of black nationalists and white nationalists, of Communists and Nazis, of Antifa and Vanguard, of the tankies and hipster Nazis of the Alt-Left and the Alt-Right. They’re a set of evil twins and when you unleash one, you unleash the other.

Their real enemies aren’t each other, but everyone in the middle. The bourgeois normies who don’t want to replace society with their totalitarian nightmare.

Street violence raises the bar so that only the violent will participate in protests. If you “no platform” campus speakers, then the only speakers you get will be those willing to face bomb threats, arson, and physical assaults. If you fire people for their views, political activism becomes the province of anonymous trolls and unemployed street thugs. Extremism limits political discourse to extremists.

If Democrats really want to stop the rise of Neo-Nazi vio-

lence, there’s a very easy way.

Stop normalizing black nationalism and the Alt-Left. End the racist witch hunts for white privilege. Make it clear that street violence is unacceptable and that racism is bad no matter who it comes from. Allow people you disagree with to express their views without trying to destroy their lives.

vile racism of Jeremiah Wright and concluded with DOJ organized race riots. DNC boss Tom Perez addresses La Raza and his deputy Keith Ellison is a veteran of the Nation of Islam.

The radical left wants to see Neo-Nazis gain prominence on the right to polarize the country.

It wants to see our values and norms drowned in violence so

Daniel Greenfield writes: “The radical left wants to see Neo-Nazis gain prominence on the right to polarize the country. It wants to see our values and norms drowned in violence so that it has an excuse to eliminate free speech”

But that’s the opposite of what the Dems will do. They don’t want fewer Neo-Nazis; they want more of them. They don’t want fewer attacks like Charlottesville and Charleston. They want more of them.

The Dems have become an extremist party run by the radical left. Obama, Holder, and Lynch made common cause with black nationalist hate groups against civil society. It began when Obama defended the

that it has an excuse to eliminate free speech. It seeks to eliminate democracy by making the other side appear nightmarishly dangerous. It plots to impose a totalitarian system on the United States by empowering extremists to destroy the current system.

And their opposite numbers waving swastika flags want the same thing. The difference is that they don’t control the Republican Party the way that the Alt-Left and black nationalists

control the Democrats.

Charlottesville is what happens when civil society fails.

And those who set the terms of permissive discourse, who control the media, academia and social norms, are responsible for the failure.

Conservatives don’t have that kind of power. It’s the left that does.

Liberals, if there are any left on the left, can shut down racism and extremism. Or they can continue normalizing it until it’s mainstream and meaningless.

If you want to understand how we got to Charlottesville, the events at Evergreen State on the other side of the country are as good a place as any to start.

Evergreen’s President Bridges, the progressive who had called for safe spaces and allowed intersectional left-wing racists to terrorize his campus over their demands for racial segregation, was asked in an interview about accusations that he is a white supremacist.

Bridges replied that he doesn’t believe that he is a white supremacist. And then added, “It depends on what you mean by white supremacist.” He concedes, “I am a white person in a position of privilege.”

White privilege is how the intersectional left defines white supremacy. Any white people who aren’t allying with them to destroy Western civilization are defined as white supremacists.

And even those who do, like Bridges, can always be accused of white supremacy for not de-

Charlottesville is what happens when civil society fails. And those who set the terms of permissive discourse, who control the media, academia and social norms, are responsible for the failure. stroying it hard enough.

When you spend enough time accusing everyone who doesn’t share your politics or even your race of racism, you make the term meaningless.

That’s what the left did over eight years of Obama. By the time the election rolled around, Hillary was defining all Trump voters as racists and sexists.

When you spend enough time crying wolf, eventually a real wolf appears. A real wolf showed up in Charlottesville.

The left spent eight years dismantling any meaningful definition of racism for political reasons. The practical effect of their actions was to eliminate social sanctions for actual racists.

And the real racists were happy to take advantage of the new climate.

When the left insists that everyone with white skin is part of white supremacy, that Shakespeare, Beethoven and all of Western civilization embody white supremacy, it’s echoing the actual talking points of white supremacy.

See Charlottesville is What , page 37

The Latest Anti-Trump Weapon: Accusing Their Critics of "Racism" By: Alan M Dershowitz

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n addition to falsely accusing their political enemies of criminal conduct, some extremists, who are determined to see Donald Trump indicted, have come up with a new weapon: accusing those who disagree with them of "racism."

It began when I said in public what every experienced criminal lawyer was thinking in private:

It began with Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who dilutes the powerful term "racism" by tossing it around as promiscuously as rap singers toss around "motherf***er" "The second one [grand jury] is important because of where it is. It gives the prosecutor the power to indict in the District of Columbia, which is a district that is heavily Democratic, and would have a jury pool very unfavorable to Trump and the Trump administration. So it gives the prosecutor a tremendous tactical advantage... The District of Columbia is always solidly Democratic and has an ethnic and racial composition which may be very unfavorable to the Trump administration..."

I did not say that the residents of the District of Colum-

bia would be consciously unfair to indicted Trump associates, or that Black juries are more biased than white jurors. I merely observed — as the Supreme Court, the NAACP, the ACLU and all experienced lawyers have noted — that life experiences matter in jury selection and deliberation.

It matters whether a jury pool is largely comprised of Democrats or Republicans, Blacks or whites, poor or wealthy. If it didn't matter, our legal system would not go to such lengths to assure diversity in jury pools.

This is an uncontroversial observation, but nothing is uncontroversial in the divisive political climate in which we live today.

So people who know better have deliberately distorted my point in order to argue that what I observed was racist. It began with Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who dilutes the powerful term "racism" by tossing it around as promiscuously as rap singers toss around "motherf***er" Here is what she said: "What he [Dershowitz] is saying is 'all of those black people are there and they don't like Trump and so he's not going to get a fair trial and so they should take it out of that jurisdiction.

It shouldn't be there to begin with.' I don't like that, and I'm surprised that Alan Dershowitz is talking like that. We will not stand for it. We will push back against that because that is absolutely racist."

No one was particularly sur-

prised, or in any way influenced, by her crying "racist" once again.

If I had said the opposite of what I said — namely that race doesn't matter in jury selection — she would have called me a racist as well.

Painter was even more direct — and in my opinion unethical — when he described my empirical observation (with which I am sure he privately agrees) as "racist B.S." and "race baiting."

He mendaciously accused me of

responded by saying: "I refuse to answer on the ground that it might incriminate me." She is right: a truthful answer — that I am not a racist and am right about the tactical advantage — would incriminate her among

It began with Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who dilutes the powerful term "racism" by tossing it around as promiscuously as rap singers toss around "motherf***er"

accuse me of racism. I had no opportunity to respond to Norton's critical (though generally fair) comments about my observations. I really miss Greta, who is a real journalist, rather than a biased polemicist. But that is the nature of too much current cable TV, in which a Gresham's law — bad cable hosts drive out the good — seems to operate.

The civil liberties of all Americans are at stake. I will not be silenced by false and unethical charges of racism from people who are deliberately distorting my views for partisan political Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) has accused civil rights attorney and former Harvard law purposes. I will respond and school professor Alan Dershowitz of “racism” expose their bias, bigotry and But people were surprised a "disgusting... attack on a mem- her radical partisan friends. mendacity, because the issues are too important to be left in when the writer Dahlia Lith- ber of Congress," without men- That's what we have come to!

Ari Melber, who replaced the the hands of partisan extremists. wick of Slate Magazine and the tioning that I was responding to lawyer Richard Painter jumped a disgusting attack by Congress- always fair Greta Van Susteren (GATESTONE INSTITUTE) on Waters's bigoted bandwagon. woman Waters, in which she on MSNBC, joined the attack Lithwick called my observation falsely accused me of racism. on me by rudely and aggressiveAlan M. Dershowitz, Felix a racial "dog whistle." She also But Painter, who purports to be ly questioning my integrity, even Frankfurter Professor of Law, characterized me — a lifelong an "ethics" lawyer, places a low to the point of asking me wheth- Emeritus, at Harvard Law School Democrat who voted for and premium on truth, legal ethics er I'm being paid by Trump! and author of "Taking the Stand: Then he followed up his hostile My Life in the Law." His new contributed to Hillary Clinton and basic decency.

My biggest disappointment interview of me with a friendly book, "Trumped up! How Crim— as a "Trump Apologist." I am an apologist only for civil liber- came when my friend and for- interview with Eleanor Holmes inalizing Politics is Dangerous to ties and racial equality, not for a mer judge Nancy Gertner was Norton, in which he tried to Democracy," will be published in candidate against whom I voted. asked whether I am a racist She get her — unsuccessfully — to August.

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New Book Explores the Evolving Relationship Between the Satmar and Lubavitch Hassidim By: Rabbi Chaim Dalfin Reviewed by: Hyman Ogen

ners in many aspects of my childhood development.”

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Early Satmar-Lubavitch History in America

subjective in his views. ing three generations living in close But surprise— he is able to over- proximity has many advantages, escome this and presents a very objective pecially in areas of education.16 Research has shown that children who hen reviewing the re- view of the Satmar community.

Here are several quotes from the grow up in close proximity to their lationship between grandparents attain specific tools that Lubavitch and Satmar book dealing with an array of topics: since 1946, the year the Satmar Rebbe arrived on American soil, one realizes that mistakes, misunderstandings and at times intentional accusations were at the center of the two groups.

Today, Satmar and Lubavitch enjoy a healthier relationship. This book dispels, clarifies and organizes what is what, who is who and when is when, and most importantly shows that the Lubavitcher and Satmar Rebbes wanted their followers to be respectful of each other although they had some serious differences. Simultaneously they had some strong similarities.

One thing is for sure, the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson were great leaders, who had nothing against each other personally.

The two largest and most known Chasidic groups worldwide are the Lubavitcher and Satmar Chasidim.

Their headquarters is less than five miles from each other. Chabad’s center is in the neighborhood of Crown Heights, with its famous building, “770,” as its flagship.

Satmar today has two headquarters, Williamsburg and Kiryas Joel in upstate New York. This is because today’s Satmar has two Rebbes, Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum and Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum. Both are sons of the late Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the successor to Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum. He along with the Lubavitcher Rebbe are the Rebbes which the book focuses on.

Although the author does write about the present and the future of both groups nevertheless the thrust of Satmar & Lubavitch, Jewish Enrichment Press, September 2017 – 336pg; 400fn; the book is about Satmar and Lubavitch Hardcover from the 1940s through 1994.

The author discloses many unknown Growth of Satmar will help them to be more successful details through sharing new, never-be- Community later in life. fore interviews he conducted.

I can attest to this from personal “The Satmar Rebbe’s decision to Although this is fascinating, yet, it is reestablish the Satmar community in experience. I grew up in the East Flatall done with great respect and dignity. Williamsburg had a tremendous effect bush neighborhood of Brooklyn, in Clearly in reviewing the book I was on the growth and expansion of the the same home as my maternal grandmost moved by his ability to under- neighborhood. It also greatly affected parents. Every night, my grandfather stand another community. many non-Chasidic Jews. Their expo- would sit with me and help me with Rabbi Dalfin, as he admits in sure to old-world Hungarian Chasidim my homework. Later, when our family his introduction is a card-carrying brought them closer to their roots and moved to Boro Park, my grandparLubavitcher. Not only that but an “in- traditions. ents continued to live nearby. On days sider,” having grown up in that comHistorian George Kranzler doc- when I was not feeling well and stayed munity and attending the Lubavitcher uments several reasons why many home from Yeshiva, my grandfather Rebbe’s gatherings, Farbrengens, for Hungarians chose to settle in Wil- would go out and buy me a falafel or over 20 years. His pedigree as a dedicat- liamsburg.15 He points especially to other treats and just sit with me. With ed student to Chabad’s top teachers and the close family structures that were all due respect to my parents, honestscholars makes him seemingly highly formed in this neighborhood. Hav- ly, my grandparents were equal part-

Chabad’s center is in the neighborhood of Crown Heights, with its famous building, “770,” as its flagship.

The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn arrived in America on March 19, 1940.

Aching from his years of suffering under Bolshevism and Nazism, and stricken with multiple sclerosis, he was greatly assisted by his two sons-in-law: the Rashag, Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary (1897-1989) and the Rebbe. Gurary was appointed director of the Lubavitcher yeshivos, Tomchei Temimim.

The Rebbe, who arrived in America in June 1941, was appointed director of three recently formed organizations, Merkos Linyonei Chinuch, Kehos Publication Society and Machne Yisrael, the social service, educational and publication divisions of Lubavitch in America.

Several other men are appointed as secretaries and aides to facilitate the work of the aforementioned three organizations. They include Rabbis Chadakov, JJ Hecht, Kazarnavsky, Levitin, Mindel, Rothstein, Simpson and Zalmanov.

Rabbi Gurary also hired Rabbis Mentlick, Jacobson and Levitin as staff for the main Lubavitch yeshiva at 770.

The Satmar Rebbe arrived in New York on the second day of Rosh HaShana, September 27, 1946. He waits until the evening to disembark.29 He is welcomed by a small group of people, including Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Greenwald, the Tzelemer Rav. After staying in Williamsburg31 for the month of Tishrei, he moved in with Reb Faysh Moskowitz, a Satmar Chasid, who lived in a luxurious large house at 1400 President Street in Crown Heights.

He was from Hungary and was one of his strong supporters. He arranged a Minyan for the Satmar Rebbe in his home, but at times struggled to gather the requisite ten males. He asked the nearby Lubavitch yeshiva to send some students to help complete the minyan.

Rabbi Yisroel Gordon, then a teenager studying at the Lubavitcher yeshiva at 770, He recalled that he and his friends were instructed by their teacher to walk over to Reb Fayshs house to help complete the minyan.

Around this time, the Satmar Rebbe asked to be admitted for a private audience with the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, who lived just a few blocks away at 770 Eastern Parkway.

At the meeting, the Previous Rebbe takes the Satmar Rebbes hand in

Rabbi Chaim Dalfin (pictured above) as he admits in his introduction is a card-carrying Lubavitcher. Not only that but an “insider,” having grown up in that community and attending the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s gatherings, Farbrengens, for over 20 years.

deep love and Chasidic comradery. He then closes his eyes, going into a deep meditation. According to an eyewitness, during this meeting, the Satmar Rebbe attempted to justify the suffering of Jewry during the years of the Holocaust. The Previous Rebbe disagreed, lifting up his hands to heaven, proclaiming: “Macht nit gerecht der Aibishter, es hut unz nit gekumpt aza patch,” Do not attempt to justify the Almighty. We did not deserve such a slap.

CONTENTS Introduction ix 1 Boro Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg 2 The Lubavitcher Rebbe was not a Zionist 3 Building the Satmar Community 4 Rabbi Uriel Zimmer 5 Character, Personality and Style 6 Highlights, Legacy and Kiryas Yoel Visit 7 Learning from Controversy 8 What they did not tell you in Yeshiva 9 Differences and Similarities 10 Present and Future — Addendum A: Lubavitcher boy in the 1960s and 70s — Addendum B: Heated Dialogue — Addendum C: Interview with former Satmar Chasid — Addendum D: Satmar in Brooklyn — Bibliography — Glossary — Index — Author’s Biography The book is surely to grab the reader’s attention as well as once you start reading it you won’t put it down. It reads like a thriller…

The book can be purchased at Amazon or by emailing the author at info@ rabbidalfin.com

Satmar today has two headquarters, Williamsburg and Kiryas Joel in upstate New York. Pictured above is a Satmar school building in Kiryas Joel.

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Abraham and the Angels: Rembrandt at the Frick Collection By: Dr. Sam Ben-Meir

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isitors to the Frick Collection in New York City will likely be familiar with the magnificent Self Portrait (1658) of Rembrandt that hangs in the main gallery.

The artist presents himself as an imposing father-figure, like some patriarch of old. His dress is formal, and utterly distinctive – a gold apron, a red sash – while his prominent and imposing hands proclaim his trade. And yet beneath that intimidating, almost royal, exterior is an unmistakable vulnerability, a strength borne of having suffered life's calamities, and emerged from the awful trials that the world inflicts upon one and all.

The Frick Collection is currently hosting a show focused on a handful of smaller but no less breathtaking works by the Dutch master, Rembrandt van Rijn (1696-1669), devoted to certain events in the life of another patriarch, Abraham – progenitor of the Jews and acknowledged father of the Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

standing near him.

In Jewish commentary, these were angels – specifically, Rafael, Gabriel, and the greatest of them, Michael – in the form of humans.

According to Rashi, one was to announce the birth of Isaac to Sarah, one to destroy Sodom, and one to heal Abraham, "for one angel does not two errands."

Christian apologists wanted to view Abraham’s heavenly visitors as an Old Testament allusion to the Holy Trinity. Rembrandt seems to weave between Jewish and Christian exegesis, and in the process, charts a course of his own, developing a distinctive interpretation.

The painting, oil on oak panel, offers us a kind of progressive revelation. The angel whose back is to the viewer reflects only the slightest degree of light, his wings are folded and tucked behind him, and his bare feet protrude from under his garb, giving him the appearance of an ordinary traveler. The second angel, whom we see in profile, reflects more of the light received from the incandescent being at center. His wings are not fully unfurled but

bear a child at her advanced age – and the divine reply comes in the form of a rhetorical question: “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”

Abraham’s firstborn son is Ishmael, whom he fathered with the slave Hagar. Rembrandt’s 1637 etching of Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael, depicts the scene in which mother and son are banished as a consequence of Isaac’s birth. In Chapter 21 of Genesis, Sarah tells her husband to expel Ishmael and his mother from their home; and ultimately God will speak to Abraham and command him to do as Sarah

obedience, that complete and utter preparedness to go to the end, which is truly frightening, inasmuch as it has become so very real.

Rembrandt's etching of the Sacrifice of Isaac (1655) strikes a very different tone. The emphasis here is on Abraham's inwardness, his inner conflict. Now the father covers his son's eyes, and draws the boy’s head to his own body, a small but significant gesture of comfort, far removed from the harrowing filicide of the earlier drawing. Isaac calmly bares himself, innocently sub-

Abraham’s firstborn son is Ishmael, whom he fathered with the slave Hagar. Rembrandt’s 1637 etching of Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael, depicts the scene in which mother and son are banished as a consequence of Isaac’s birth. In Chapter 21 of Genesis, Sarah tells her husband to expel Ishmael and his mother from their home; and ultimately God will speak to Abraham and command him to do as Sarah says – reaffirming the promise made earlier that his son Isaac will inherit his covenant, while Ishmael will also become the father of a great nation.

The crown of the show is Abraham Entertaining the Angels (1646), which depicts the story of the foretelling of the birth of Isaac to the elderly couple Abraham and Sarah: "The Lord appeared to [Abraham] by the terebinths of Mamre, as he sat in the door of the tent in the heat of the day" (Genesis 18:1).

Rembrandt's etching of the Sacrifice of Isaac (1655) strikes a very different tone. The emphasis here is on Abraham's inwardness, his inner conflict. Now the father covers his son's eyes, and draws the boy’s head to his own body, a small but significant gesture of comfort, far removed from the harrowing filicide of the earlier drawing. Isaac calmly bares himself, innocently submitting to the knife, while Abraham, apparently insensible of the angel that his holding him from behind and staying him from the deed, fixes his darkened eyes on the ram that will replace his son as the burnt offering.

The crown of the show is Abraham Entertaining the Angels (1646), which depicts the story of the foretelling of the birth of Isaac to the elderly couple Abraham and Sarah: "The Lord appeared to [Abraham] by the terebinths of Mamre, as he sat in the door of the tent in the heat of the day" (Genesis 18:1). Abraham is ninety-nine years old, and it is only a few days since his circumcision. Though still physically recovering, he sits at the entrance of the tent to see if there is a passerby whom he might take into his house. Abraham, we are told, lifted up his eyes and saw three men

beginning to stretch out. Only with the third celestial visitor, whose face is to us, do we have a glimpse of the divine per say: he is clothed all in white, and he radiates a luminous glow, the light accumulating in the folds of his gown; while his wings, unfolded and outstretched, affirm his deific stature.

Only a faint trace of the light settles on Abraham’s sleeve, though we can detect in his attitude the growing awareness that something miraculous is taking place. As Sarah stands and looks on from the shadows she expresses disbelief that she will

says – reaffirming the promise made earlier that his son Isaac will inherit his covenant, while Ishmael will also become the father of a great nation. Sarah smiles with satisfaction as the forlorn Hagar makes her way, a sturdy young Ishmael by her side; and almost regal Abraham stands inactive on the threshold of his lavish home, outstretched arms underscoring his subjection.

An etching, Abraham Caressing Isaac (ca. 1637-45), does not depict a specific biblical episode.

This is a different Abraham than the one that cast out Hagar and Ishmael. No magnificent finery: this is a more modest and rural Abraham. He fondly holds the boy Isaac, while on his brow we can see the pensiveness, the somber and searching gaze of the father who will be commanded by God to make a sacrificial offering of his son.

An etching from 1645, Abraham and Isaac, takes its inspiration from Chapter 22 of Genesis, a moment of dialogue between father and son: Isaac asks his father, as he holds a bundle of wood for the burnt offering, 'Why is no lamb present?' And Abraham tells his son, 'God will provide the lamb' – and as he does so, Rembrandt has him gesture upwards to the heavens. A deep shadow is cast over Isaac's face, heightening the sense of foreboding, and consistent with the reading that at this point "Isaac understood that he was going to be slaughtered."

The Sacrifice of Isaac (ca.

1652-54) is a startling work for the terrible violence it brings into focus. Abraham covers the boy's mouth to stifle his cries, but his eyes are left open to witness the knife. The father is apparently unaware of the angel above him, senseless to the angel's hand on his head. Abraham has become as pitiless as the command he's obeying – and it is precisely that

mitting to the knife, while Abraham, apparently insensible of the angel that his holding him from behind and staying him from the deed, fixes his darkened eyes on the ram that will replace his son as the burnt offering. The angel's face is close to Abraham but remains unseen by the patriarch, who listens inwardly rather to the unknown voice.

The Akedah takes the measure of man's faith, presenting the ultimate test of our obedience and submission to God. In Rembrandt's drawing of the sacrifice, he does not shy away from the brutal reality of what is unfolding. Rembrandt renders us an Abraham not unlike the portrait that we find in Hegel: “Love alone was beyond [Abraham’s] power; even the one love he had, his love for his son, even his hope of posterity… could depress him, trouble his all-exclusive heart and disquiet it to such an extent that even this love he once wished to destroy, and his heart was quieted

only through the certainty of the feeling that this love was not so strong as to render him unable to slay his beloved son with his own hand."

Rembrandt's Abraham reveals a complex and emotional engagement with the story of the patriarch. The artist's understanding of his Biblical subject was anything but static: his drawings, etchings and paintings are evidence of a searching, questioning orientation – an openness to readings that acknowledge the burden of faith, the trials of fatherhood, and the ineradicable mystery of being.

Legendary Movie Mogul Harvey Weinstein to Direct Film on Warsaw Ghetto Revolt By: Benjamin Kerstein

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ewish Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has announced that he will produce and direct a film about the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Weinstein made his announcement in an article published by the Deadline Hollywood website, in which he wrote that his connection to the memory of the Holocaust was “personal” because he “lost eight great aunts and uncles to Auschwitz.”

While on a trip to Israel as a child, Weinstein was given the Leon Uris-authored book Mila 18, which depicts the Warsaw Ghetto revolt.

“It’s the story of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto,” the 65-year-old Weinstein wrote.

“It’s the triumph of a few Jewish rebels (men and women) who think they’re going to die and instead defeat thousands of German soldiers in the ghetto, and half of them escaped.

I’ve already started to talk to people about it after delaying it for so many years. I am now committed.”

Beginning as distributors of small, low-budget independent films, Weinstein and his brother Bob conquered Hollywood with their company Miramax and later The Weinstein Company. They have won a plethora of Oscars, including Best Picture for films like Shakespeare in Love; fostered blockbusters like Scream; launched the careers of dozens of filmmakers, such as Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith; and made stars of actors like Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon,

Jewish Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has announced that he will produce and direct a film about the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

among others.

Weinstein’s personal friend, artist Ron Agam, confirmed in an interview with The Algemeiner on Tuesday that Weinstein will be directing Mila 18, the first time he has gone behind the camera since 1986.

Agam said that a film of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt has been on Weinstein’s mind for decades. “This is a book that he had as a young man, and I think it marked him very seriously,” Agam stated. “This is something that was always in his head to one day do this movie. And See Legendary Movie Mogul , page 36

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Al Jazeera: The Terrorist Propaganda Network By: John Rossomando

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l Jazeera's support for terrorism goes far beyond on-air cheerleading. Many of its employees have actively supported al-Qaida, Hamas and other terrorist groups. Concerns over the network's consistent pro-terrorist positions prompted several Gulf States to demand that Qatar shut it down in June.

Sheikh Said Bin Ahmed Al-Thani, director of Qatar's government information office, called such demands "a condescending view [that] demonstrates contempt for the intelligence and judgment of the people of the Middle East, who overwhelmingly choose to get their news from Al Jazeera rather than from their state-run broadcasters," Al-Thani wrote in Newsweek.

But a week earlier, United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash detailed Al Jazeera's connections to terrorists and terror incitement in a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Al Jazeera violates a 2005 U.N. Security Council resolution that called on member states to counter "incitement of terrorist acts motivated by extremism," Gargash charged.

The network has given a platform to terrorists like Osama bin Laden, Hamas leaders Khaled Meshaal and Mohammed Deif, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah and others, Gargash wrote.

United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash (pictured above) detailed Al Jazeera's connections to terrorists and terror incitement in a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Al Jazeera violates a 2005 U.N. Security Council resolution that called on member states to counter "incitement of terrorist acts motivated by extremism," Gargash charged.

Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi used his widely viewed Al Jazeera a program to incite the masses against their dictators.

"We salute the [Tunisian] people, which has taught the Arab and Islamic peoples ... the following lesson: Do not despair, and do not fear the tyrants, and more feeble the than a spider-web.

They quickly collapse in the face of the power of steadfast and resolute peo-

Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi (pictured above) used his widely viewed Al Jazeera a program to incite the masses against their dictators.

tinian suicide bomber whose 2003 attack killed 19 people at an Arab-owned restaurant in Haifa as a "martyr."

It also broadcast a 2006 speech by al-Qaida leader Abdel Majid al-Zindani at a pro-Hamas conference in Yemen, even though the United States and United Nations already had designated him as a terrorist. Proceeds from the conference benefited Hamas.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and the widow of slain Hamas leader Abd AlAziz Al-Rantisi also attended.

"What is our duty towards this righteous jihad-fighting people, the vanguard of this nation? What is our duty?

What is our obligation? " al-Zindani asked. "The Hamas government is the

Al Jazeera also broadcast a 2006 speech by al-Qaida leader Abdel Majid al-Zindani at a pro-Hamas conference in Yemen, even though the United States and United Nations already had designated him as a terrorist. Proceeds from the conference benefited Hamas

Jazeera as an outlet to disseminate his terror messages to the world."

Al Jazeera English likewise pushes the Qatari government's favored narratives, such as exaggerating the global importance of its emir.

Its short-lived affiliate, Al Jazeera America (AJAM), aired pro-Palestinian propaganda. During the 2014 Gaza crisis, AJAM host Wajahat Ali pushed Hamas' talking points about the territory's population density without a single reference to how the terrorist group used mosques and civilian buildings to launch rockets.

"I think it is simply providing one side of a story. It doesn't rise to Soviet propaganda, but it certainly is propaganda for one side," Temple University journalism professor Christopher Harper told the Investigative Project on Terrorism in 2014.

Muslim Brotherhood Shapes Al Jazeera Narrative

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan "said although the Qatari royal family finances Al Jazeera, the people 'controlling' it were the same ones financing Osama bin Laden, Hamas, and Iraqi jihadists," the cable said.

"These have not simply been topical interviews of the kind that other channels might run; Jazeera has presented opportunities for terrorist groups to threaten, recruit and incite without challenge or restraint," Gargash wrote.

Al Jazeera Incites Terrorism Al Jazeera took credit for the wave of Arab Spring revolutions in early 2011.

Network host Mehdi Hasan noted in a December 2011 column that Al Jazeera gave a regional voice to the irate Tunisian protesters who ousted their dictator that they would not have otherwise had.

Faisal Al-Qassem, host of Al Jazeera's show "The Opposite Direction," boasted that television, not the Internet or Facebook, was responsible for the revolutions. Al Jazeera's influence during the Arab Spring and the subsequent revolutions is a factorin the effort by Qatar's Gulf neighbors to clip its wings.

Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour (pictured above) allegedly supported a secret Muslim Brotherhood group in the UAE that aimed to stir up unrest and chaos, Egypt's Youm 7reported

ples," Qaradawi said in a Jan. 16, 2011 Al Jazeera broadcast. "The tyrants never listen and never heed advice, until they are toppled."

He likewise called on former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down on his program later that month.

"There is no staying longer, Mubarak, I advise you (to learn) the lesson of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali," Qaradawi said referencing Tunisia's toppled dictator.

A month later, Qaradawi issued a fatwa calling for the death of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Libya still has not recovered from the toppling of Gaddafi in 2011.

Qaradawi urged the overthrow of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad after demonstrations began in Syria that March, sparking the ongoing Syrian civil war.

Even before the Arab Spring, Al Jazeera acted as a platform for violent terrorists.

Qaradawi's endorsement of suicide bombings aired on Al Jazeera. The network also glorified a female Pales-

During the 2014 Gaza crisis, AJAM host Wajahat Ali pushed Hamas' talking points about the territory's population density without a single reference to how the terrorist group used mosques and civilian buildings to launch rockets.

Palestinian people's government today.

It is the jihad-fighting, steadfast, resolute government of Palestine.

"I don't have it in my pocket right now, but I am making a pledge, and as you know, I keep my promises. So I'm donating 200,000 riyals. What about you? What will you donate? Go ahead."

Defector Alleges Qatari Intel Runs Al Jazeera Al Jazeera is not just another news organization like CNN, Fox News or the BBC, Qatari intelligence whistle-blower Ali al-Dahnim told Egypt's Al-Bawaba newspaper in April. Qatar's state security bureau both finances and operates Al Jazeera, he claimed. -"By and large, its [Al Jazeera] news content comes under the sway of security officials, rendering it as a mouthpiece for Qatar's security and intelligence apparatus," Al-Dahnim said on Egyptian television. "Not to mention its free publicity to hardened terrorists such as Osama bin Laden who used to use Al

Al Jazeera has been "hijacked" by the Muslim Brotherhood, Tunisian intellectual Khaled Shawkat alleged in 2006. Shawkat claimed to have spoken with numerous Al Jazeera journalists who told him that Qatar's rulers handed the network over to the Muslim Brotherhood.

"Most of them agreed that 'loyalty' [to a group] had come to supercede 'qualifications,' and that journalists with no Muslim Brotherhood background had to choose one of two options: [either] adapt to the new work conditions and swear loyalty to the representative of the supreme guide [of the Muslim Brotherhood' at Al Jazeera, or leave," Shawkat wrote, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Around the same time, a top UAE official complained to American diplomats that Qatar had acquiesced to Al Jazeera staff who were "linked to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and jihadists," a State Department cable noted.

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan "said although the Qatari royal family finances Al Jazeera, the people 'controlling' it were the same ones financing Osama bin Laden, Hamas, and Iraqi jihadists," the cable said.

Numerous Al Jazeera employees resigned in 2013 in protest over the channel's pro-Muslim Brotherhood orientation. Former Al Jazeera journal-

Al Jazeera is not just another news organization like CNN, Fox News or the BBC, Qatari intelligence whistleblower Ali al-Dahnim (pictured above) told Egypt's Al-Bawaba newspaper in April.

ist Fatima Nabil chargedthat she and her colleagues "had the feeling that the channel is partisan in favor of political Islam, and in most cases selectivity is exercised in broadcasting the text messages [of viewers] on the channel, and even more so in the selection of guests and interviewees."

The Qatari government controls the network's coverage, former Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Mohamed Fawzi, arrested by Egyptian authorities in 2013 on terrorism charges, told the Washington Times this year.

Al Jazeera actively worked with Brotherhood members in Egypt, Fahmy claimed.

Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour allegedly supported a secret Muslim Brotherhood group in the UAE that aimed to stir up unrest and chaos, Egypt's Youm 7reported. Qatar provided fugitive members of the Muslim Brotherhood with passports and money. Abdulrhaman Khalifa bin Sabih, the former leader of the secret Muslim Brotherhood organization in the UAE, told Youm7 that an Al Jazeera employee named Mohammed al-Mukhtar al-Shankiti trained him to use social media to spread demonstrations and unrest in the Emirates.

Al Jazeera reportedly enabled the secret Muslim Brotherhood group to link with foreign media and communicate with them because they lacked the means to do so on their own.

Al-Arabiya recently noted that Mansour emphasized the commonalities between the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaida during a 2015 interview with then Jabhat al-Nusra (Now called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) leader Abu Muhammad al-Joulani, as evidence of his Brotherhood sympathies.

Al-Arabiya claimed that Al Jazeera's organizing the interview with al-Joulani served the purpose of improving his image so he can take over after Assad falls, and that it proved a Qatari connection with the Nusra leader.

Emails seized from Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan also show the importance al-Qaida gave to Al Jazeera. One email noted that while other networks were hostile to the terrorist group, it could not afford to turn Al Jazeera into an enemy.

"Although sometimes it makes mistakes against us, their mistakes are limited. By clashing with it, it will be biased and damage the image of the Muslim Mujahidin," bin Laden wrote under the alias "Zamarai."

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59-year-old Mehari Bokrezion (bahk-REH’-zee-uhn) died of cardiovascular disease around lunchtime on Aug. 8. He had pulled over in an area of Manhattan where drivers are allowed to rest for an hour. He wasn’t found until the next morning.

When the driver failed to go home, his worried wife and brother traced his GPS device with help Police search a Jewish from his garage. At around the Community Center after a bomb same time a passer-by noticed the threat was reported in the driver hadn’t moved and called Rochester suburb of Brighton, 911.

New York, U.S., March 7, 2017.

The SoHo neighborhood where New York gets tougher the driver was found bustles with on community center foot traffic, but only one person bomb threats sought help.

Other taxi drivers came and (VIN) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law new went without realizing something penalties for those who make was wrong. bomb threats against community One under arrest in centers.

The Democratic governor ap- fatal Brooklyn stabbing proved the legislation Monday. It (VIN) A 41-year-old man is was passed by the state Legislature under arrest in last night’s fatal earlier this year in response to a stabbing in Brooklyn that took the string of bomb threats called into life of a 23-year-old Jewish man, Jewish Community Centers across thanks to quick work by detectives the country. at the NYPD’s 63rd Precinct.

Citing those bomb threats and According to reports on ABC recent violence by white suprem- News (http://7ny.tv/2fFQm7e), acists in Charlottesville, Virginia, eyewitness interviews helped poCuomo said it is vital for New York lice identify Jems John Paul as a to stand against hate crimes. person of interest in the dispute “These despicable acts spread over a parking spot on E. 73d fear and terror across entire com- Street in Bergen Beach that took munities, and by signing this the life of Omari Dahan. Police measure, we will give law enforce- placed a travel alert on Paul who ment more tools to prosecute ha- was picked up at the airport by temongers and treat these crimes detectives as he tried to catch a Jet with the seriousness they deserve,” Blue flight to Haiti.

Cuomo said in a statement anPaul was positively identified nouncing the signing of the bill. in a lineup and is expected to face “The horrific events in Charlot- charges in the incident. Police are tesville this weekend demonstrate continuing their investigation and that now, more than ever, we must hoping to locate the second man stand united against bias and hate who took part in the fatal assault. in all of its forms.”

Police said that Dahan’s older The new law specifically adds brother came home to find his “community centers” to a list driveway blocked by another veof places covered by an existing hicle and started honking his horn statute setting penalties for bomb repeatedly. When the driver of the threats that already singled out lo- car emerged from a nearby house, cations such as schools and trans- Dahan began screaming and portation facilities. The change things quickly turned ugly. ensures that someone convicted Eyewitness told CBS News of making a bomb threat against (http://cbsloc.al/2hYlfEJ) that the a community center can, at min- older Dahan was extremely agiimum, face a sentence of up to a tated and that after going into the year in jail. house to ask his brother Omari Cuomo says the change will for help, he returned with a child help prosecute those seeking to safety gate, hitting the driver of the “spread fear and terror.” parked car in the head with the gate.

NYC taxi driver thought As previously reported on VIN to be resting for 18 News (http://bit.ly/2fF7aLJ) a full hours was dead scale fight emerged with one of (VIN) A New York City taxi the men pulling a knife. The two driver who appeared to be resting unidentified men fled the scene was actually dead in his parked ve- after stabbing Omari Dahan in the chest and slashing his brother in hicle for about 18 hours.

The New York Times says the arm.

NATIONAL Iran threatens to quit nuclear deal ‘within hours’ if new US sanctions enforced

Anti-racism protesters react as police try to move them during protests in front of Trump Tower in New York City, New York, U.S., August 14, 2017.

Thousands of protesters gather as Trump heads to his NY home (VIN) Thousands of protesters and heavy security were ready to greet President Donald Trump as he headed for his home in the city on Monday for the first time since his inauguration.

Demonstrators stood in pens that police erected across the street from Trump Tower in Manhattan and lined nearby blocks of Fifth Avenue by early Monday evening, hours before his expected arrival.

Some carried signs with such messages as “no hate” or “impeach” as chants of “black lives matter” and “love, not hate — that’s what makes America great” rose above traffic noise. Nearby, an inflatable, rat-like caricature of Trump stood by The Plaza hotel.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Democrat, was among the protesters.

Meanwhile, police had stationed sand-filled sanitation trucks as barriers around Trump’s signature skyscraper and layers of metal police barricades around the main entrance.

After Trump was elected president Nov. 8, security around the tower ramped up dramatically, including the use of the sanitation trucks. A maze of barricades and checkpoints were manned by scores of uniformed police officers under the supervision of a mobile command center. The security precautions have been lessened somewhat in his absence but still have inconvenienced residents and business owners in the highly trafficked area, home to stores such as Tiffany and Louis Vuitton.

Trump, a native New Yorker who cherishes his namesake highrise, said Friday that he had stayed away because he realized the impact of the street closings and other aspects of a presidential visit.

“I would love to go to my home in Trump Tower, but it’s very, very disruptive to do,” he said.

(JNS.org) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that the Islamic Republic could abandon its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers “within hours” if the U.S. follows through with imposing new sanctions on Iran.

“If America wants to go back to the experience [of imposing sanctions], Iran would certainly return in a short time, not a week or a month but within hours, to conditions more advanced than before the start of negotiations,” Rouhani said in an address that was broadcast from the Iranian parliament.

He added, “Iran has remained and will remain committed to the deal, though any breach of promise by other parties will receive appropriate responses.”

In June, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed the Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act, which targets Iran’s ballistic missile programs and applies sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for its terrorist activities. In early August, President Donald Trump signed the sanctions bill into law.

The new U.S. sanctions came amid Iran’s reported fueling of the recent Temple Mount crisis and its agreement to bolster relations with the Hamas terror group.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and President Donald Trump (left) with Jared Kushner (center) at the start of a past meeting in Jerusalem.

Kushner will visit Israel again later this month for continued discussions in renewed U.S.-led peace efforts. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Kushner and Greenblatt returning to Middle East to continue peace push (JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday Israel will welcome President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, and international negotiations representative Jason Greenblatt later this month for continued discussions

in renewed U.S.-led peace efforts.

“President Trump will soon send his representatives, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, for talks in the region including, of course, in Jerusalem, in an effort to advance the peace process,” Netanyahu said at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting. “Of course, we will welcome them as always.”

Netanyahu’s remarks follow a White House official’s statement Friday that a team of senior Trump administration officials led

by Kushner will visit Israel, the disputed territories and several Arab states in August.

“President Trump has previously noted that achieving an enduring Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will be difficult but he remains optimistic that peace is possible,” the official said.

Boston Holocaust Memorial vandalized for the second time this summer (JNS.org) The Boston-based New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized Monday for the second time this summer.

A 17-year-old male reportedly threw a rock at one of the memorial’s glass panels, shattering it to pieces, before being tackled by two bystanders and held at the scene until police arrived.

The suspect was charged with willful destruction of property, and police are investigating whether the vandalism will be classified as a hate crime.

“Today and every day Boston stands up against hate. I’m saddened to see such a despicable action in this great city,” Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh wrote on Twitter.

“It’s shocking and it’s particularly shocking for us in the Jewish community, coming as it does in a week in which so many of us spent our weekend watching Nazis marching in Virginia,” said Jeremy Burton, executive director of the area’s Jewish Community Relations Council, the Boston Globe reported.

Monday’s incident occurred just two days after white supremacists displaying Nazi symbols staged a violent rally in Charlottesville, Va., which saw a 32-yearold woman killed and 19 injured when Ohio resident James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his vehicle into a crowd of counter-protesters.

In mid-July, hundreds of people gathered in Boston to rededicate the memorial after it was vandalized in late June. The prime suspect, James E. Isaac, 21, was

AUGUST 18, 2017 charged with willful and malicious destruction of property as well as destruction of a place of memorial.

NBA Hall of Fame members Wayne Embry (left) and David Robinson (right) with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. Credit: Mark Neiman/GPO.

Israeli president hosts delegation from NBA amid league’s global summer camp (JNS.org) Israeli President Reuven Rivlin last Thursday hosted a delegation from the National Basketball Association (NBA) that visited the Jewish state for a program that seeks to promote cultural understanding.

The NBA’s Basketball Without Borders initiative was in Israel to lead its first-ever summer camp in the Jewish state. Leading teenage athletes from more than 30 countries were coached and tutored by former NBA All-Stars, including center David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs. The teens are also performing community outreach in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

“You all know very well that whatever sport we are talking about, a team is a symbol of community, of values,” Rivlin told NBA Hall of Fame members Robinson Wayne Embry, as well as NBA Deputy Commissioner and COO Mark Tatum, upon meeting them in Jerusalem. “It represents hopes and dreams. The NBA and the WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) represent the hopes and dreams of so many young boys and girls around the world.”

Rivlin noted Israel’s own efforts to foster cultural understanding through athletics, including bringing “Jews and Arabs, children, to come and play [soccer] side by side. Because a society that plays together, stays together.”

Trump condemns KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists as ‘repugnant’ (JNS.org) President Donald Trump, facing criticism over his initial statement on Saturday’s violence in Charlottesville, Va., Monday directly condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis as “repugnant” to American values.

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AUGUST 18, 2017 “Racism is evil—and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” Trump said in a statement from the White House.

“Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America,” he said.

Immediately after Saturday’s violence in Charlottesville, Trump had denounced “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” and was criticized for omitting an explicit condemnation of the white supremacist groups.

The American software giant Oracle (headquarters pictured) has chosen five Israeli high-tech companies to participate in its first-ever Start-up Cloud Accelerator Program in Tel Aviv.

Credit: Rehman Abubakr via Wikimedia Commons.

American software giant Oracle launches start-up accelerator in Tel Aviv (JNS.org) The American software giant Oracle has chosen five Israeli high-tech companies to participate in its first-ever Start-up Cloud Accelerator Program in Tel Aviv.

The first Israeli start-ups to participate in the biannual program include the predictive maintenance company 3DSignals, global networking company Nsof Networks, artificial intelligence platform Bonobo.ai, smart audio-visual guidance platform Toonimo and software service company Zoomin.

The companies will develop their technologies in a cooperative workspace and be granted direct access to Oracle’s customers, business partners and investors.

The accelerator also provides the Israeli teams with mentoring from leading technology and business experts.

By launching the accelerator, Oracle hopes to discover new Israeli entrepreneurial talent that can assist the company in becoming the world’s leading cloud-service provider.

The Tel Aviv accelerator is the second such program started by the American software company, with the inaugural program being launched last year in Bangalore, India.

Oracle has been active in Israel for the past two decades, and is one of numerous international technology companies to seek out local talent in the Jewish state, acquire Israeli start-ups and develop accelerators in the country.

INTERNATIONAL Netanyahu planning to become first Israeli prime minister to visit Latin America

the region.

According to a report in The Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu’s office is in the advanced planning stages to visit Mexico and Argentina in mid-September ahead of a visit to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.

The trip would coincide with the 70th anniversary of the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan, in which 13 Latin American and Caribbean countries voted for the creation of a Jewish state in the former British Mandate of Palestine.

The move by Netanyahu is part of a larger effort by the Israeli leader to improve ties with non-traditional allies such as African and Asian countries.

Netanyahu’s plan to visit Latin America first emerged late last year while hosting Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales in Jerusalem.

According to Israeli officials, Latin American countries are interested in obtaining Israeli technology as well as agricultural, security and medical knowledge.

WIZZ Air (plane pictured), Central and Eastern Europe’s largest lowcost airline, announced the continuation of its expansion in Israel. Credit: Gyrostat via Wikimedia Commons.

Low-cost European carrier WIZZ Air ramps up expansion in Israel (JNS.org) WIZZ Air, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest lowcost airline, last week announced the continuation of its expansion in Israel, with four new low-fare routes set to fly directly to the Jewish state’s southernmost city of Eilat.

The new routes will provide service to Eilat from Riga (Latvia), Katowice (Poland), Prague (Czech Republic) and Bucharest (Romania) beginning in the winter of 2017.

The routes will supplement 18 other connections that are already offered by the low-cost European carrier to Tel Aviv and Eilat. Tickets for the new flights are already on sale.

“Today’s announcement is further underlining WIZZ’s commitment to the Israeli market and its continuous expansion since the first WIZZ flight from Tel Aviv in 2012,” the airline said in a statement, attributing the expansion to “growing demand” for its services in the Israeli marketplace.

In 2017, WIZZ will offer 12 new services from Tel Aviv and Eilat Ovda airports, expanding its flights from Israel to 22 routes in 9 countries throughout Europe.

MIDDLE EAST Israel sending aid to Sierra Leone following deadly flooding and landslide

(JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed his government to send (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minis- emergency humanitarian aid to ter Benjamin Netanyahu is report- Sierra Leone following a deadly edly planning to make a historic flood and landslide that has killed trip to Latin America next month, hundreds.

“The prime minister has orwhich would make him the first sitting Israeli head of state to visit dered the Foreign Ministry to ex-

tend aid to Sierra Leone in any way and as soon as possible,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said.

While Israel does not have an embassy in Sierra Leone, Netanyahu’s office said Israel will send medicine, clean water, blankets and other items through its embassy in Senegal.

Reports from the International Red Cross indicate that at least 312 people have been killed and more than 2,000 have been left homeless in flooding and mudslides near Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown.

Israel has been developing closer relations with several West African countries, including Sierra Leone. The country’s President Ernest Bai Koroma visited Israel in January.

Jerusalem Light Rail security guard wounded in Palestinian terrorist stabbing spree (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A Jerusalem Light Rail security guard was lightly wounded in Jerusalem Saturday by a female Palestinian terrorist who went on a stabbing spree.

The wounded security guard, a 31-year-old Arab Christian resident of eastern Jerusalem, was evacuated to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital.

Jerusalem police said the terrorist initially arrived at the crossing between Haim Bar-Lev Boulevard and Sultan Suleiman Street in Jerusalem, next to the Damascus Gate station. She quickly walked toward a haredi man, brandished a knife and tried to stab him several times. The haredi man escaped and avoided injury. Yet the terrorist immediately zeroed in on the light rail security guard and stabbed him in his arm. Police officers subdued the terrorist, and she was taken into custody for questioning.

After the attack, police forces raided the terrorist’s home in Sur Baher, a neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem.

11-year-old Ilya Cohen (fourth from left) with police officers from Dimona, Israel. Cohen, an Israeli boy with special needs, realized his dream by becoming a police officer for a day. Credit: Israel Police.

Israeli boy with special needs realizes dream by becoming police officer for a day (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Ilya Cohen, an 11-yearold Israeli boy with special needs, realized his dream by becoming a police officer for a day.

The teaching staff at the Tzabar School for Children with Special Needs devotes a day to helping students’ realize their dreams. Cohen’s teachers recently arranged for him to don a uniform and join the police force in the southern Israeli city of Dimona.

Cohen sat in on a morning briefing with station commander Chief Supt. llan Shoshan, joined police officers and municipal security officers for a routine patrol, and rode with a police sapper.

“Making Ilya’s dream of becom-

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crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza, and we will prevent the construction of this barrier by all means,” Hamas said.

The terror group added that “the entry of the occupation army’s troops and equipment into the Gaza Strip to carry out this Two Israeli Arabs work is tantamount to a military indicted for supporting incursion into Gaza and Hamas Islamic State will respond accordingly. We will (JNS.org) Two Israeli-Arab not sit idly by and we will respond brothers have been arrested and with force the likes of which Israel indicted for supporting the Islamic has never known.”

The IDF is building a 37-mile State terror group.

Mahmoud Jabarin, 25, and fence that includes underground Naim Jabarin, 20, who hail from and underwater sections to thwart the predominately Arab city of Hamas’s terror tunnels, which Umm al-Fahm, were arrested in played a large role in the sumJuly in a joint Israel Police and mer 2014 conflict with the terror group.

Shin Bet operation.

According to the Shin Bet, authorities received information that Mahmoud Jabarin was planning to travel to Syria to join Islamic State. During a search of their residence, numerous graphs, videos and other Islamic State propaganda was found, in addition to a Carlo submachine gun in the attic.

“The Shin Bet views Israelis A stone vessel unearthed inside who support the Islamic State or- an ancient workshop in Israel’s ganization as a serious security Galilee, near what is believed to threat, especially those who are be the biblical town of Cana, in contact with organization op- which is recorded in the Christian eratives and desire to fight in its Gospels as the place where Jesus ranks,” the security agency said in turned water into wine. Credit: a statement.

Samuel Magal/Israel Antiquities Hamas says new Gaza security Authority. fence a ‘declaration of war’ Ancient stone (JNS.org) Hamas officials workshop uncovered Thursday slammed Israel’s connear Israeli town struction of a new Gaza border where Jesus turned fence, which is aimed at thwarting water into wine the threat posed by the Palestinian terror group’s cross-border attack (JNS.org) Israeli archaeologists tunnels. have uncovered a rare 2,000-year“This is a declaration of war. old stone quarry and workshop We will not allow the occupation located near the ancient Galilean (Israel) to carry out its plots and town of Cana, which is recorded

ing a police officer for a day come true was important to us, and reflects our strong ties to the community,” Shoshan said.

Cohen said he was “the happiest guy in the world, after they made my dream come true.”

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According to Dr. Yonatan Adler, senior lecturer at Ariel University and director of the Galilee excavations for the Israel Antiquities Authority, the discovery of a Second Temple-era stoneware workshop provides insight into ancient Jewish religious rituals and observance.

“In ancient times, most tableware, cooking pots and storage jars were made of pottery. In the first century of the Common Era, however, Jews throughout Judea and Galilee also used tableware and storage vessels made of soft, local chalkstone,” said Adler.

Adler said the choice of stoneware for materials was likely made due to religious reasons.

The Galilee excavations—occurring just south of the modern Israeli village Kafr Kanna, which scholars have identified as the site of the biblical town of Cana—revealed an artificially hewn cave where ancient workers quarried raw materials for chalkstone vessels. The cave was found with ancient chisel marks on the walls, ceiling and floor, as well as ancient industrial waste from stone mugs and bowls.

In the “Wedding at Cana” narrative in the Gospel of John, Jesus is said to have turned water into wine, which was held in six jars made of stone.

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Orthodox Jewish Group Sues Mahwah, NJ to Keep 'Eruv'

Dunes Blamed for Surge in Jersey Shore Drownings

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n Friday August 11, the Bergen Rockland Eruv Association along with two Orthodox Jewish NY residents filed a federal lawsuit against the New Jersey town of Mahwah for blocking their attempts to build an ‘eruv’ with white plastic piping. An eruv is a Jewish orthodox practice, utilizing thin poles and string around the boarders of cities or towns to grant them religious permission to walk freely, carry things and push baby carriages on Shabbat. The Orthodox Jewish community group says the town is violating their civil and constitutional rights. Mahwah officials and residents, however, are intent that the markers violate local laws which prohibit signs on trees, rocks or utility poles.

As reported by VIN News, in a unanimous vote on Thursday, the Mahwah Town Council decided to begin issuing summonses as of Aug. 18, if the eruv is not removed. Yehudah Buchweitz, a lawyer representing the South Monsey Eruv Fund, a subsidiary of the Bergen Rockland Eruv Association, said that they will not take down the eruv.

“There’s no law that I’m aware of that actually prohibits the lechis,” Buchweitz said.

At the end of July, the newly installed eruv’s PVC piping, installed to utility poles on

On Friday August 11, the Bergen Rockland Eruv Association along with two Orthodox Jewish NY residents filed a federal lawsuit against the New Jersey town of Mahwah for blocking their attempts to build an ‘eruv’ with white plastic piping. An eruv is a Jewish orthodox practice, utilizing thin poles and string around the boarders of cities or towns to grant them religious permission to walk freely, carry things and push baby carriages on Shabbat

Sparrowbush Road and East Mahwah Road, were vandalized and damaged in four separate locations. The police investigated the incident as a hate crime. Mahwah residents were apparently apprehensive of the changes that the eruv would have on their township, and about an influx of Jews moving into the neighborhood. About 600 Mahwah residents attended a meeting set up to find a way to have the eruv removed from their streets. The town has also been considers a new law limiting its parks and playgrounds to

New Jersey residents only. This too was in response to neighbors complaining that Jews with NY license plates have been frequenting the parks in the town, which lies about 33 miles northwest of NYC. “The object, motivation and effect of the actions of the township is to suppress the religious practices of the plaintiffs and certain other Jews who reside in Airmont and other parts of Rockland County (in New York),” the lawsuit states. “The eruv presents See Orthodox Jewish Group , page 37

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his summer 11 deaths were reported due to drowning on the Jersey Shore. Each year, rip currents are responsible for one to three New Jersey deaths, as per the National Weather Service. But in the past two months, they have already claimed five lives. “The only year with more rip-current deaths is 2008, when there were six deaths” the whole year, says meteorologist Sarah Johnson. In a recent article in the NY Post, experts searching Lifeguards at the Asbury Park for a culprit in the tragic trend Beach have pointed to rougher surf Early on June 15, before lifeand possibly beach replenishguards were on duty, two cousment projects. ins, Mitzi Hernandez, 13, and Emily Gonzalez Perez, 12, were pulled under at Belmar Beach.

“I walk the beaches all year long and I’ve noticed Panic-stricken bystanders made the beaches are shallower a rescue but Hernandez died the much further out because next day and Gonzalez Perez four days later. In Atlantic City, on the of the replenishment,” same fated day, Ramon Quinn, 15, went in to save Kaliyah “I walk the beaches all year Hand from a rip current. Both long and I’ve noticed the beaches drowned. It took several days to are shallower much further out recover the bodies.

There were three more tragic because of the replenishment,” says Joe Bongiovanni, Asbury drownings reported in July, and Park beach safety supervisor, three as yet in August. “This is the and lifeguard for 50 years. “The worst summer I’ve ever seen,’’ said replenishment is doing what Amy Delmanto, of Old Bridge, it’s intended to do. However, it NJ, who witnessed 12-year-old does create more rip currents — Bianca Palma drown on July and people don’t recognize rip 16 on a Sandy Hook beach. She says it was close to 6 PM and currents.”

the lifeguards were closing up when they heard the scream and jumped in to help. That rescue was unsuccessful, but Delmanto said that she “witnessed three rescues” by the lifeguards there that same afternoon. She says the water was only as deep as Palma’s knees when she was pulled under by a rip current.

With the help of the federal government, NJ has spent hundreds of millions in beach replenishment and protection projects since the Storm Sandy in 2012. But most experts reject placing the blame on the replenishment projects. “Beachfill projects neither create nor worsen rip currents,” stated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees the projects. According to Dr. Stewart Farrell, director of Stockton University’s Coastal Research Center, the hazard is produced by continuous 3 to 4 foot waves, which are caused by “more wind energy in the North Atlantic than it has been in the past.”

Whatever the cause, swimmers are cautioned to follow the rules and swim only when life guards are present. Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty said the lifeguards have made “170 saves” since the beginning of the summer. “The mistake people make is the Atlantic Ocean is not a pool,” he said. “It can turn deadly very quickly if people aren’t careful.

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Chabad of East Hampton Holds Sumptuous Summer Gala in Lavish Home By: Lieba Nesis

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he East Hampton Chabad held its annual dinner in East Hampton on Sunday August 13, 2017. With cocktails beginning at 5:00 PM, more than 200 people cut short a perfect beach day to pay homage to the wonderful shul led by Rabbi Leibel Baumgarten located at 13 Woods Lane. The Synagogue became a full year-round presence in 2004 and continues to thrive in both the summer and winter months.

Those who frequent the Friday night service and dinner have the privilege of consuming the delectable challah, gefilte fish, taco salad, chicken and noodles of Leibel's wife, Goldie, who has achieved fame throughout the Hampton's for her gourmet cooking. In addition to physical satiation, the rabbi provides a spiritual haven to a community that appreciates and enjoys his commitment to Judaism. Some of his other talents include a phenomenal singing voice-acting as a chazzan on a weekly basis during the Shabbos davening.

Sandi Churgin with Chani and Rabbi Rafe Konikov

Linda and Roger Fisher

Joel, attired in a money belt and straw hat, had an off-beat sense of humor that was refreshing remarking that he tells his students he will only teach them if they smile and he Jewish Voice society, fashion will fall madly & entertainment reporter in love with Lieba Nesis files a live report them only for from the Chabad of East their brain.

Hampton Summer Gala The Rabbi bestowed Joel with a framed dollar bill that the Lubavitcher rebbe had given him to show Joel his appreciation. In order to raise additional money sports memorabilia was auctioned off including a baseball signed by 40 Yankees and a jersey signed

by Joe Namath which went for the bargain basement prices of $250 and $650 respectively. The night which was also a steal at $250 provided a meal by W caterers consisting of sushi, short ribs, duck, pastrami and other delectables - everyone is well fed at a Jewish celebration.

Linda Jacobson, the event coordinator, has been preparing for this event since February ensuring that all the minutiae was executed to perfection. The entertainment which was one of those critical elements, was mentalist Marc Salem who surprised the audience with his mastery of the brain. Capping off the festivities, guests headed home with a goody bag containing chocolate chip cookies, lemonade and a pen-a savory conclusion to a perfect summer evening.

Rabbi Konikov and Rabbi Baumgarten

Christine and Manny Vilat with Rabbi Baumgarten

Event coordinator Linda Jacobson with husband Doug Left to right: Sarah and Yehuda Stark, Ben Doller, Norman and Helene Stark

Goldie and Rabbi Leibel Baumgarten

Naomi and David Schoenkin, Susan Blond, Lori Gordon and Barry Sonenfield

On Sunday evening, hundreds gathered at the multimillion dollar Norman Jaffe designed home of Joel Stern to thank the Rabbi for providing a spiritual oasis during the summer.

Some of the illustrious guests included Sotheby's chairman Ben Doller and entrepreneur Norman Stark. Stark spoke of the rabbi glowingly admiring his nonjudgmental love of every Jew and his 24/7 devotion to his congregants.

Stark said Leibel would take the shirt off his back for his supplicants.

I admire Leibel for his angelic smile and cheerful demeanor-qualities that are necessary for a rabbi who makes weekly prison visits to gang members and victims of tragedy. His large beautiful family is paradigmatic of the Chabad way of life; abundant families with strong Torah values. Tonight Leibel spoke about the unfortunate loss he experienced this past year with the death of his 87-year-old mother whom he said "was everything." In her honor he started a fund to place mezuzahs in 87 homes and ensure they were kosher.

Leibel recalled his parents commitment to Judaism frequently helping families kosher their homes. Joel Stern, who hosted the event

Lawyer Harvey Feuerstein and host Joel Stern

at his house, said it was a no-brainer to open his home for Leibel and his family, who elevate Joel on a daily basis and give Joel a sense of belonging. Joel teaches economics at six different universities located in Singapore, Africa and Guatemala and is the founder of three different companies dealing with consultancy, learning centers and finance. He travels more than a million miles a year and is currently single. He views his divorce as a liberation akin to the salvation of the Jews during Succos, Shavuos and Dini Klein and Chaya Pomeranz Pesach.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

Can Anyone Save the Met Council???

By: David Bennett

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n a somewhat surprising turn of events, it was recently announced that City Councilmember David Greenfield who represents constituents in Borough Park, Midwood and parts of Bensonhurst will be departing from his influential role on the city council at the end of the year. Political pundits and those immersed in the inner circle of New York City politics had thought that it was a safe bet to assume that Greenfield would seek re-election as his star has risen considerably since entering office.

But Greenfield has other plans. In an interesting career move, the man who had first won his seat in the city council in the heavily Jewish 44th Council District in 2010 will now assume the role of executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty.

A non-profit organization that bills itself as one that provides succor for indigent and financially challenged Jews and their families, the organization is still trying to emerge from a public relations imbroglio that it found itself mired in. In 2014, its long time executive director, William Rapfogel was arrested and sentenced to prison for stealing millions of dollars from the organization’s coffers. Since that juncture, the social service organization that has spent more than $110 million a year, mostly from government funds, on home health care and other services for older people and the poor and has descended into a tailspin that seems almost irreparable.

While serving in the city council Greenfield became chairman of the council’s Land Use Committee (one of the most powerful council committees) which holds sway over the city’s zoning regulations.

“The New York Building Congress congratulates City Councilmember David Greenfield on being named the executive director of the Metropolitan Council of Jewish Poverty,” said New York Building Congress President and CEO Carlo A. Scissura. “As chairman of the powerful Land Use Commit-

tee, David has expertly charted a course that combines a vision for economic growth with the need to safeguard and improve the quality of life of all residents throughout the five boroughs.

We look forward to continuing our strong relationship with David as he embarks of this important new chapter in his career.”

When asked for comment on his new position at the Met Council and what steps he plans to take to extricate the organization from the public relations quagmire it finds itself in, Councilman Greenfield declined to issue statements to the media at this juncture. He did however tell the Jewish Voice that he would be more than glad to provide responses to the questions that the publication posed to him after he assumes his position at the Met Council.

Greenfield’s predecessors at the Met Council include Alan Schoor, the former senior VP for Operations at Touro College,

Met Council. Schoor had replaced David M. Frankel who had previously served under former NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as the Commissioner of the Department of Finance. No reasons were given for the relatively short stint that Schoor did at the Met Council or what precisely was accomplished during his tenure. Frankel was appointed as CEO and Executive Director of the Met Council immediately after the organization had terminated Rapfogel’s employ in the summer of 2013. Among charity industry insiders a palpable feeling of optimism prevailed concerning Frankel’s tenure at the Met Council, largely due to his expertise in working at the top echelons of city government.

No reason has been given for his departure either.

“I can tell you from personal experience that Alan Schoor had a zero personality,” intoned David Ben Hooren, the publisher of the Jewish Voice. “I met

Greenfield’s predecessors at the Met Council include Alan Schoor, (pictured above) the former senior VP for Operations at Touro College, who had served the beleaguered organization in its highest leadership role for two years before abruptly parting ways with the Met Council

William Rapfogel had been at the helm of the Met Council since 1993 and his dismissal came on the heels of an internal investigation that was predicated on an anonymous tip. According to a NYT report, the probe unearthed evidence that pointed to Rapfogel’s scheme with the organization’s insurance broker to pad insurance payments and split the surplus.

who had served the beleaguered organization in its highest leadership role for two years before abruptly parting ways with the

David Frankel (pictured above on the left) was appointed as CEO and Executive Director of the Met Council immediately after the organization had terminated William Rapfogel’s employ in the summer of 2013. Among charity industry insiders, a palpable feeling of optimism prevailed concerning Frankel’s tenure at the Met Council, largely due to his expertise in working at the top echelons of city government. No reason has been given for his departure either.

him several times at the annual Met Council fundraising dinners and tried to engage him in conversation in my capacity as a publisher of a New York Jewish newspaper. He snubbed me and others and remained reticent in a nasty kind of way. The truth is that the attendance at the last several Met Council dinners has been dramatically declining and the very last one that was held was a complete disaster. I truly believe that the failure of the Met Council in terms of their transparency to their donors is somehow related to its ineffective leadership,” he added.

Rapfogel had been at the helm of the Met Council since 1993 and his dismissal came on the heels of an internal investigation that was predicated on an anonymous tip. According to a NYT report, the probe unearthed evidence that pointed to Rapfogel’s scheme with the organization’s insurance broker to pad insurance payments and split the surplus.

In May of 2015, the Jewish Voice had reported that Rap-

fogel’s predecessor, former Met Council CEO David Cohen was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to make a restitution payment of $650,000 to the organization after he too was charged with scamming the

In an interesting career move, David Greenfield, the man who had first won his seat in the city council in the heavily Jewish 44th Council District in 2010 will now assume the role of executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty

nonprofit out of approximately $9 million.

Cohen had originally pled guilty to Grand Larceny in the First Degree (a class B felony), Grand Larceny in the Third Degree (a class D felony) and Conspiracy in the Fourth Degree (a class E felony). As part of his guilty plea, Cohen admitted that he conspired with co-defendant Rapfogel and others to steal from Met Council through an elaborate kickback scheme lasting from 1992 to 2013.

Cohen apparently concocted the scheme with Joseph Ross of Century Coverage Corporation in 1992, to have the organization pay extra larger insurance premiums and receive kickbacks in return. In addition to Rapfogel’s involvement in the scheme, the Met Council’s former chief financial officer, Herb Friedman was also implicated.

According to unnamed sources close to the Met Council, Cohen had left America to live in Israel as the kickbacks were being diverted to him. He then moved back to America and several months prior to the public emergence of the Rapfogel scandal, Cohen was appointed executive director of the volunteer Hatzolah ambulance service.

According to officials, Rap-

fogel, who was getting as much as $30,000 a month through the scam, was sentenced to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison, and had to pay $3 million in restitution to the Met Council.

The Jewish Voice made repeated attempts to contact the Met Council for comment on this article, however phone calls were not returned.

Those sources close to the case have often pondered the role that US Attorney Eric Schneiderman played in effectively prosecuting this case.

Many wonder if his efforts towards rooting out fiscal malfeasance at the Met Council reached any real pinnacle of success. Sources say that a certain modicum of doubt stubbornly remains in the aftermath of the case. Many hold the belief that if insurance companies were conspiring to steal money in the Met Council scandal, then perhaps such building vendors as maintenance workers, painters, carpenters and electricians and others were also guilty of the same charge, yet escaped prosecution due to a lackluster performance by the US attorney for the State of New York.

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In May of 2015, the Jewish Voice had reported that Rapfogel’s predecessor, former Met Council CEO David Cohen (pictured above on the right, seated next to his attorney) was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to make a restitution payment of $650,000 to the organization after he too was charged with scamming the nonprofit out of approximately $9 million.

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AUGUST 18, 2017 Continued from page 28 reported 300,000 Jewish New Yorkers were living in poverty.

The council received support from the American Jewish Congress and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York

The Met Council (which is a 501c3 – not for profit corporation) is in possession of a substantial portfolio of buildings located at a variety of venues throughout the New York City metropolitan area as indicated on their web site. to begin its programs. Although founded to help the Jewish poor, today Met Council’s services help all New Yorkers, regardless of age, sex, religion, race or ethnicity.

Moreover, the organization works with 25 local Jewish Community Councils and is affiliated with the UJA-Federation of New York. Met Council also partners with Food Bank For New York City, City Harvest and Masbia.

Concerns in the Jewish community have been voiced over

dence was developed using federal low-income tax credits and thus serves low-income senior citizens.

The Mira Lederer Salomon Residence (opened in 2000) 141 East 23rd Street (at Lexington Ave.) 19 units (1 studio, 18 1 BRs) This special property is a 10-story 19-unit building. The building has a backyard where the residents congregate, have meetings and barbecues. It is located just a few blocks from Gramercy Park and Madison Square Park as well as many east side hospitals 228 East 46th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) (opened in 2009) 18 units (18 one bedrooms) This residence contains 18 one bedroom apartments in a 6 story building targeted to moderate-income elderly. It is located between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.

332 East 22nd Street (between First & Second Avenues) (opened in 2009) 14 units (1studio, 13 one bedrooms) This 7 story building is located on a quiet block between 1st and 2nd Avenues in the Gramercy Park area. It has 14 one bedroom apartments, with 2 apartments per floor.

This property is on a great tree-lined block on the Upper East Side with apartments that are quite spacious. It’s not far to the train or beautiful Carl Schurz Park.

351 East 54th Street (between First & Second Avenues) (opened in 2002) 12 units (all studios) This 7-story building is located on a quiet block between 1st and 2nd Avenues.

It is interesting to note that many of the aforementioned residential buildings are not located in Jewish neighborhoods and approximately 85% of them are occupied by non-Jewish residents.

Throughout the years, the Met Council has been queried as to the precise number of destitute Jews they actually serve in terms of providing housing and other basic needs. Moreover, such thorny questions concerning the proper management of the string of buildings owned by the Met Council have also been raised as well as questions related to whether building vendors or insurance companies are in any way associated with or connected to any of the organization’s board members.

Because the Met Council is a not-for-profit corporation it receives more than ample tax

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Those sources close to the case have often pondered the role that US Attorney Eric Schneiderman played in effectively prosecuting this case. Many wonder if his efforts towards rooting out fiscal malfeasance at the Met Council reached any real pinnacle of success.

Sources say that a certain modicum of doubt stubbornly remains in the aftermath of the case

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David Cohen apparently concocted the scheme with Joseph Ross of Century Coverage Corporation (pictured above)in 1992, to have the organization pay extra larger insurance premiums and receive kickbacks in return.

who spoke on the condition of anonymity a result of this mortgage fulfill- said that “one has to look and see ment the organization will find who is managing the buildings themselves in a financially fa- belonging to the Met Council vorable position. The lingering and to find out if these people question however is whether are in any way connected to the the newly appointed CEO, Da- Met council board.” In terms of vid Greenfield is up for the task the ostensible fiduciary corrup-

financially destitute people it has saved and he wants to see it even do a better job in the future.”

In terms of responding to charges of past corruption within its ranks, Rabbi Hecht said that the Met Council is currently “more transparent than it ever was.” He added that a team of

The Met Council was founded in 1972 after two studies reported 300,000 Jewish New Yorkers were living in poverty. The council received support from the American Jewish Congress and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York to begin its programs. Although founded to help the Jewish poor, today Met Council’s services help all New Yorkers, regardless of age, sex, religion, race or ethnicity.

the glaring absence of consistent and committed leadership since the 2014 scandal that saw the Met Council’s reputation severely tarnished when its executive director was arrested on corruption charges.

The Met Council (which is a 501c3 – not for profit corporation) is in possession of a substantial portfolio of buildings located at a variety of venues throughout the New York City metropolitan area as indicated on their web site. These residential buildings were originally financed by both the federal and state government in order to provide adequate housing for the elderly, homeless, needy and disabled communities. According to sources close to the Met Council the total worth of all the buildings in question is approximately $1 billion.

In Manhattan alone, the Met Council owns nine residential apartment buildings.

Their locations are as follows: 385 Third Avenue (between East 27th & East 28th Streets) (opened in 2008) 49 units (10 studios, 38 one bedrooms and a live-in super) Located in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan, this resi-

The Linda and Jerome Spitzer Residence (opened in 2000) 351 East 61st Street (between First & Second Avenues) 53 units (14 studios, 34 one BRs and 4 two BRs, live-in super) This is a 53-unit building for seniors located on 61st Street near First Avenue in Manhattan.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Senior Residence (opened in 2002) 171 Lexington Avenue (between East 31st & East 32nd Streets) 41-units (19 studios, 19 one bedrooms, 2 2BRs and a live-in super) Located on Lexington Avenue near 31st Street, this is a 12-story building The Linda and Jerome Spitzer Residence II 231 East 77th Street (between Second & Third Avenues) (opened in 2008) 12-units (11 one bedrooms and 1 studio) This six-story building is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

334 East 92nd Street, (between First & Second Avenues) 23-units (22 one bedrooms and 1 studio)

benefits. The next decade will of managing the buildings in a see the mortgages on all of the manner that is beyond reproach.

A close source to the Met buildings that the Met Council currently owns all paid off. As Council and their operations

The Linda and Jerome Spitzer Residence (pictured above) is a 53-unit building for seniors located on 61st Street near First Avenue in Manhattan. The next decade will see the mortgages on all of the buildings that the Met Council currently owns all paid off. As a result of this mortgage fulfillment the organization will find themselves in a financially favorable position.

tion that rocked the organization, the anonymous source is of the belief that the organization must be way more accountable to their vendors. He proffers an estimate of $10 to $15 million that the organization probably had stolen from them during Rapfogel’s lengthy tenure.

A more positive outlook on the future of the Met Council and David Greenfield’s position there was offered by Rabbi Avrohom Hecht, the executive director of the Jewish Community Council of Canarsie, a neighborhood organization that works with the Met Council.

“David Greenfield is a really creative and very bright person and I know that he is totally dedicated to seeing the Met Council rebuild and grow,” said Rabbi Hecht.

He added, “I think David is leaving the city council because the job of leading the Met Council is both a challenging and rewarding one and David has always risen to the occasion when presented with formidable challenges. He also knows the remarkable work that the Met Council has done in past; how many lives it has positively impacted and how many

prodigious monitors along with an impeccable ethics board have been installed to ensure that a devolution of venalities of sorts does not occur.

“I think David is leaving the city council because the job of leading the Met Council is both a challenging and rewarding one and David has always risen to the occasion when presented with formidable challenges. He also knows the remarkable work that the Met Council has done in past; how many lives it has positively impacted and how many financially destitute people it has saved and he wants to see it even do a better job in the future.”

“The Met Council has been bringing in new and young leadership; ideological people who really want this organization to thrive and make a difference in the quality of life of the people that they serve,” said Rabbi Hecht.

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WindowsWear: Fashion in the Digital Age

By Julie L. Sagoskin

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o view the latest fashion window displays around the world in real time, you can check out WindowsWear, a one of a kind visual database encompassing 700 brands throughout the world’s fashion capitals. This technologically fashion forward company even offers fashion window walking tours throughout New York, the fashion capital of the world. Windowswear CEO, Jon Harari, co-founded the company with Chairman and President Mike Niemtzow and Creative Director Raul Tovar. Headquartered in New York City, WindowsWear has grown to include a client base of global retailers and brands including Ralph Lauren, Harrods, Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors and many more.

WindowsWear.com features fashion displays dating back to 1931 and serves as the world’s largest fashion window and instore display database. Win-

dowsWear also launched the retail industry’s leading store real time communications app which is now available to download at http://www.windowswear.com/app. Most recently, Harari and his team founded the WindowsWear Museum at Berekeley College to celebrate, educate and preserve the world’s best fashion visual displays. The museum aims to bring attention to the creativity of fashion and the professionals behind the fashion culture.

Windowswear, headquartered in New York City, was born when Jon Harari and Mike Niemtzow combined their ideas and experience; Mike had the idea of digitizing window displays while Jon understand firsthand the challenges retailers face in today’s shifting digital environment. The WindowsWear database now features brands and windows from Paris, London, Mexico City, Berlin, Tokyo, and many more fashion forward cities around the world.

Prior to his foray into fashion,

Co-founders, Mike Niemtzow, Raul Tovar, Jon Harari

Best White Window, Calvin Klein Collection

Jon Harari, whose parents emigrated to the US from Israel in the 1970’s and both worked at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., started his career in the finance world. In addition to working at Aurelius Capital Management and Lehman Brothers, Jon established US market opportunities for internationally based designers through retail stores, PR, events, etc. and even had his own women’s clothing store. Jon currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Baruch College and is also a Board Member of Berkeley College’s Fashion Advisory Board.

Jon said he was most excited “about building a global database and community that had never been created before, with lots of room for exciting growth.”

Harari and Niemtzow realized that in order to build a successful company that would be capable of partnering with the world’s leading brands, they needed the right creative lead, which is when they brought on

Best Adaptation Runway to Window Louis Vuitton Display

Best Shoe Window, Jimmy Choo, Milan

Raul Tovar who Jon had worked with at his clothing store. Raul, who is now the Creative Director of WindowsWear, is a world-renowned fashion photographer who works with Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and many other internationally recognized publications.

WindowsWear.com features fashion displays dating back to 1931 and serves as the world’s largest fashion window and in-store display database.

In just five years, this fashion database has grown to a global team of over 20 people. Jon attributes this rapid growth to the idea of celebrating the global visual creatives that work in the fashion industry.

Jon explained that “visual merchandising is a billion dollar industry employing tens of thousands of people worldwide.

We are the only company elevat-

ing and celebrating the work of all visual creatives globally in today’s digital age, as well as having a global community of these creators where they can share ideas and work with each other.”

When it comes to technology shaking up the fashion world, Jon believes “fashion is an expression of one’s identity and technology is the biggest change to impact our individual identities and the ways we express them. It’s the reason why traditional technology companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon have all launched stores in traditional fashion districts around the world. Jon also believes that in the near future, “the proliferation of augmented and virtual reality will not only change the way we interact with the physical world but also the fashion we wear. Our clothing will be able to digitally engage and communicate. 3D printing will also change how our clothing is made as especially as there is a big push in the industry for sustainability.”

As fashion continues to change with the times, WindowsWear continues to stay on top of the latest trends around the world. As future technologies develop, WindowsWear continues to serve as an endless source for research, inspiration, retail trends, competitive analysis, designers, brands and creative professionals worldwide. In addition, every year, WindowsWear hosts an annual global awards party to celebrate the world’s best visual creative teams.

Jon said he was most excited “about building a global database and community that had never been created before, with lots of room for exciting growth.”

For a WindowsWear walking tour, head to http://www.windowswear.com/tours and use promo code Jewish Voice for a 20% discount!

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Training Institute Seeks to Help Jewish Philanthropists Grow Their ‘Giving Circles’ Edited by: JV Staff

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mplifier, the global network of Jewish giving circles, is seeking to help philanthropists strengthen their giving circles – groups of people pooling their charitable efforts – with its first ever six-month training Institute.

The inaugural Giving Circle Institute, which began with a two-day learning retreat in New York last week, is training leaders across 10 states and two countries who lead 16 giving circles – groups of people who pool their charitable funds and decide together which causes or organizations to support.

Amplifier is dedicated to growing and convening giving circles inspired by Jewish values in a global philanthropic network and is now expanding its efforts to help giving circles sustain themselves and strengthen the field. There are currently more than 3,000 giving circle members

in the 102 giving circles that are part of Amplifier’s network.

Amplifier is launching the Institute in part after conducting a survey of 315 members of 55 giving circles, in which 68 percent of respondents reported that their total philanthropic giving increased since they joined a giving circle. Importantly, the research found that this increase was tied to the number of years a person participated in a giving circle: 78 percent of those who participated for four or more years reported increased giving, compared to 63 percent of those who participated from one to three years.

As such, the Institute is aimed at helping leaders to sustain their giving circles – not only to more deeply impact and increase members’ philanthropy, but also to equip them to be more effective and intentional grant-makers as their generosity increases.

The training is focusing on ethical philanthropy practices, strategies for engaging in civil

Giving Circle Institute faculty member Suzanne Feinspan speaking at the retreat. Photo credits: Yossi Hoffman Photography

society, finding new avenues for Jewish expression, and deepening a sense of community. As giving circles open members up to becoming more philanthropically active, they also have an opportunity to challenge members to work more ethically by effectively partnering with grantees, as well as to leverage their resources for civic engagement in their communities by participating in volunteer work and advocacy efforts.

Amplifier has also learned that giving circles are sustained, in part, by building close-knit communities that keep people coming back year after year. The giving circles also become outlets for deep spiritual and cultural fulfillment.

The Giving Circle Institute kicked off with two-day learning retreat in New York City last Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 7-8, led by faculty members Tamara Tweel, Lisa Exler, and Suzanne Feinspan. After the retreat, each

giving circle will then design and implement a new initiative designed to sustain their circle over time. Once the program is completed, each giving circle leader will prepare a case study about their initiative to share with Amplifier’s giving circle network.

This year’s Institute cohort includes the following giving circle leaders: Miriam Bader (New York; Entwine Giving Circle), Ross Berkowitz (Philadelphia; Tribe12 Fellowship Alumni Giving Circle), Gene Binder (Boulder, Colo.; Olive Branch Giving Circle), Lindsay Bressman (Brooklyn, N.Y.; Hannah Senesh Giving Circle), Madeline Chaleff (Palo Alto, Calif.; Chai Giving Circle), Lauren Dranoff (Philadelphia; Tribe12 Fellowship Alumni Giving Circle), Shelby Ebert (New York; Atid), Shari Edelstein (Boulder, Colo.; Olive Branch Giving Circle), Natalyia Eidelman (Philadelphia; Tribe12 Fellowship Alumni Giving Circle),

Leaders from Amplifier's network learned to strengthen their giving circles at the two-day retreat. Photo credits: Yossi Hoffman Photography

Australian Leisure Ltd Purchases Israeli Gaming Giant in Lucrative Deal By: Yehuda Sagan

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ristocrat Leisure Ltd., an Australian gambling machine manufacturer, announced this month that it will be purchasing Plarium Global, an Israeli social gaming developer, for $500 million in cash. Founded by seven friends in 2009, Plarium is best known for online multiplayer games like Vikings: War of Clans, Stormfall, Terminator Genisys: Future War, and others. Based in Herzliya, the company has offices in Russia, the U.S., Ukraine, and the U.K. According to Jewish Business News.com, Plarium currently has over 1,200 employees spread across its locations worldwide.

“I am very proud of the success we have achieved since establishing the business in 2009,” Plarium CEO and co-founder Avi Shalel told Jewish Business News this month. “The hard work and efforts of Plarium’s employees have positioned Plarium as a world class mobile game publisher. Aristocrat is an ideal partner for us given our common aspiration to be a global leader in social gaming, which will be accelerated through leveraging Aristocrat’s financial, strategic and opera-

The group of giving circle leaders from Amplifier's network at the two-day retreat. Photo credits: Yossi Hoffman Photography

Mindy Freedman (Los Angeles; The SAM Initiative), Shannyn Gelbart (Melbourne, Australia; Australian Jewish Funders), Andrea Kovalsky (New York; Entwine Giving Circle), Susan Leff (Burlington, Vt.; Vermont Jewish Yo-pros Giving Circle), Sonia Marie Leikam (Portland, Ore.; OJCF Giving Council), Breanne Matloff (New York; Atid), Danielle Meshorer (San Francisco; San Francisco Jewish Women’s Fund), Michelle Ohayon (Los Angeles; The SAM Initiative), Naomi Sage (New York; Entwine Giving Circle), Amy Saltzman (Chicago; Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago), Rebecca Shomair (Palo Alto, Calif.; Chai Giving Circle), Samantha Wallace (Houston; Venture Philanthropy), Ariel Weiss (Cincinnati; Jewish Innovation Fund), and Amanda Winer (New York; Challah for Hunger Alumni Giving Circle).

“We know that giving circles are a powerful, accessible mod-

el for intentional philanthropy.

Up until now, we've helped dozens of leaders launch brandnew giving circles - so how can we help sustain these giving communities and strengthen them over time? The Institute is a new curriculum that will help circle leaders to build resilient, thoughtful experiences for their members,” said Amplifier Executive Director Joelle Berman. “The Institute will equip circle leaders with what they need to make a bigger impact together.”

About Amplifier: Amplifier is a global network of giving circles motivated by Jewish values. Amplifier is designed to strengthen and significantly expand the field of giving circles by educating circle members on best practices in collective philanthropy, and creating a platform to connect NGOs and Jewish giving circles to each other efficiently and effectively. http://www.amplifiergiving.org

Snapchat's Not-Growing Pains Are A Boom For Instagram By: Anat Ghelber

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ou would be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn’t know what Facebook is. Snapchat, which allows users to share messages, pictures, images and other types of multimedia (with the added feature that they’re only available for viewing until they disappear) is another social media vehicle which is also very popular. Facebook once tried Aristocrat Leisure Ltd., an Australian gambling machine to buy out this social media manufacturer, announced this month that it will be purchasing competitor.

Plarium Global, an Israeli social gaming developer, for $500 After it failed, it’s been trying million in cash to copy the features that SnapIn a statement last week, Aris- chat offers with mixed results. tional resources.”

Trevor Croker, Aristocrat’s tocrat spoke highly of Plarium, Now, with Snapchat starting to managing director and CEO, saying the gaming company has falter financially, the tables are said the Plarium acquisition will “proven content, ability to mon- starting to turn. allow Aristocrat to “expand our etize social games and global addressable market into log- game development talent across ical adjacent segments in the multiple studios.”

Facebook installed According to gaming busifast-growing mobile social gam“Instagram Stories” to ness site Pocket Gamer.biz, compete with Snapchat. ing market.”

Croker added that the acqui- Aristocrat’s acquisition has sition “immediately expands boosted its digital revenues our addressable market from from 14 to 22%. Jewish Business Facebook installed “InstaUS$3.2 billion in the Social Ca- News reported that Shalel and gram Stories” to compete with sino segment, to US$25.4 billion 12 other Plarium management Snapchat. when including the Strategy, Ca- team members will remain at And it now has more daily ussual and RPG segments. It also the company and defer Aristo- ers than Snapchat itself has. provides us a stronger platform crat’s payments to them until The stock price of Snap Inc. to target the US$43.6 billion 2020. The Aristocrat-Plarium (the company which owns overall mobile and web games deal is expected to be completed Snapchat) has dropped 45%

by December of this year. market as growth segments.” since the initial public offering

Photo Caption - Snapchat co-founders Bobby Murphy, left, and CEO Evan Spiegel at the New York Stock Exchange as the company celebrates its IPO in March of 2017

in May of this year. The writing appears to be on the wall for some that Snapchat is becoming less and less popular with young people (the chief users of apps like Snapchat and Facebook) and therefore less attractive to digital advertisers.

Some even think it might just become a passing fad.

Brian Nowak is an analyst for Morgan Stanley and the head underwriter for Snap’s Initial Public Offering. He’s gone so far as to lower the rating for Snap’s company stock.

He’s also mentioned how the onus is on Snap Inc. to be more

active to keep advertisers interested, otherwise Snapchat may be relegated to the scrapheap as a mere experiment, or flash in the pan.

Meanwhile,Facebook’s Instagram Stories allows people to share pictures and videos over a period of 24 hours in a loop.

Stories has gathered up to 250 million users daily since it was first released. Snapchat has only amassed 166 million users daily in the first quarter and that counts for all of its users.

Instagram has a total of more than 400 million users daily as of February of this year.

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Cooking with Za’atar – A Popular Israeli Seasoning Blend Creative and simple recipes By: Jamie Geller (joyofkosher.com)

ZA’ATAR CARROTS Za’atar is a popular Israeli seasoning blend made from sesame seeds, sumac, oregano and cumin). It is delicious sprinkled on top of your hummus, labanah or olive oil to dip your bread or pita, but you can do so much more with this in your arsenal.

An Israeli spiced side dish sure to liven up the ho-hum roasted carrots you’ve become accustomed to.

Serve with our Carrot Top Tahini if desired.

INGREDIENTS  1 bunch carrots (colorful carrots are nice here)  2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, such as Colavita extra virgin olive oil  2 tablespoons za’atar  Kosher salt  Freshly ground black pepper  Garnish: rough chopped carrot tops PREPARATION 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2. Cut carrots in half lengthwise and arrange on prepared baking sheet.

3. Drizzle carrots with evoo, za’atar, salt, and pepper. Roast at 375°F for 20 to 30 minutes, stirring occasionally until tender and browned.

4. Schmear a platter with a good dollop of Carrot-Top Tahini and arrange carrots on the sauce. Garnish with a drizzle of evoo and additional chopped carrot tops.

ZA’ATAR ROASTED CHICKPEAS

These crispy chickpeas may become your new favorite snack. They are tossed with za’atar and then roasted until chickpeas take on a nutty flavor and texture. Serve as a snack or as part of our Over the Top Hummus Bar. INGREDIENTS  2 (15-ounce) cans chickpeas, drained, rinsed, and dried  ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil  3 tablespoons za’atar  1 teaspoon garlic powder  Pinch of cayenne  1 tablespoon sumac  1 teaspoon kosher salt PREPARATION 1. Preheat oven to 350°F, line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2. In a medium bowl, toss chickpeas with evoo, za’atar, garlic powder, cayenne, sumac, and salt.

3. Spread chickpeas on lined sheet, and bake for 1 hour, stirring occasionally, until browned and crunchy.

4. Transfer to a serving bowl. Store chickpeas, covered, at room temperature for up to 3 days.

ZA’ATAR SPICED PITA CHIPS Your new party starter, my Za’atar pita chips are just as good dipped in guacamole as they are in hummus.

INGREDIENTS  4 pita breads, halves separated and cut into triangular wedges  Za’atar, sumac, or paprika for sprinkling  Olive oil for drizzling PREPARATION 1. Preheat oven to broil. Place in a single layer on a rimmed sheet pan.

Sprinkle with za'atar or spice of your

Za’atar Carrots

Za’atar Roasted Chickpeas

choice and spray with cooking spray.

INGREDIENTS 2. Broil for 4 minutes or until golden  1 (1/4-ounce) packet active dry yeast brown and crisp. Serve warm at a room (2 1/4 teaspoons) temperature with hummus.  3/4 cup warm water (110°F to 120°F)  1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus SAUTEED EGGPLANT more for oiling the bowl Serve this Sautéed Eggplant with a  1 cup whole wheat flour whole grain as a side, on top of a bowl  1 cup all purpose flour of hummus, or alongside our Over the  1 teaspoon kosher salt  1/4 cup za’atar Top Hummus Bar.  2 tablespoons white and black sesaINGREDIENTS me blend or 1 tablespoon of each  2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil PREPARATION  medium eggplant, cut into 1-inch 1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted dice with a whisk attachment, mix the yeast  1 teaspoon sumac into the warm water and let the mix 1 teaspoon za’atar ture stand until a gentle foam blooms  Kosher salt across the surface, about 10 minutes.  Freshly ground black pepper The water must be under 120°F or it PREPARATION 1. Heat evoo in a medium sauté pan will kill the yeast.

2. Whisk in 1/4 cup of the oil and over medium heat. Place eggplant in pan and cook for 10 to 12 minutes, un- add the flour and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt. til brown on all sides.

3. Using the dough hook, stir on low 2. Transfer eggplant to a bowl and season with sumac, za’atar, salt, and speed until the flour is combined and pepper. Serve with a whole grain as it forms a dough. Increase the speed to a side or alongside our Over the Top medium and knead the dough for 7 to 8 minutes, until the dough is still sticky Hummus Bar. to the touch but stays on the dough ZA'ATAR FLATBREAD hook in one piece.

4. Lightly oil a large stainless or glass If you want to make this easier, you can use prepared pizza dough and then bowl and scoop the dough into it. Cover with plastic wrap and chill in the refollow the directions from step 5.

Sauteed Eggplant

frigerator for a minimum of 2 hours or overnight; the dough should double in volume.

5. About 2 hours before baking, brush 2 tablespoons of the oil on a heavy baking sheet, place the dough on the sheet, and cover with plastic wrap.

Let the dough rise again for 1 1/2 hours at room temperature.

6. Heat the oven to 375°F and arrange a rack in the middle.

7. Press the dough onto the baking sheet, using your hands to stretch and pull it into the corners, forming a flat 10-by-12-inch rectangle. Make dimples in the dough with your fingertips (this creates little pockets for the oil and za’atar to collect in) and brush the dough with the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil.

8. Sprinkle the za’atar evenly over the dough and then sprinkle the whole bread with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt.

9. Let the dough rest for at least 20 to 30 minutes more, uncovered and at room temperature.

10. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until golden brown on the edges and cooked all the way through in the center. Serve warm cut into wedges if you like with Tahini Sauce.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

The Solar Eclipse: A Jewish Message The connection between covering our eyes when we recite the Shema and when looking at the eclipse By: Rabbi Benjamin Blech

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he world will soon be witness to one of the most spectacular events in the universe.

On August 21 the sky will suddenly go dark in the middle of the day. The temperature will noticeably drop by many degrees in a few short moments.

Birds will stop chirping and flee back to their nests. And millions of Americans will gather under the heavens, from Oregon to South Carolina, to view the total solar eclipse to cross America in many decades.

ic knowledge to understand the temporary darkness due to the coverage of the sun by the overlapping of the moon, superstition bred many myths and fanciful folklore. The very word eclipse comes to us by way of old French from the Greek for abandonment or forsaking – as if the sudden darkness expressed divine displeasure so severe that God chose to temporarily remove the gift of his presence.

How do Jewish sources view a solar eclipse?

At the very beginning of the Torah, Jewish biblical commentators find a direct allusion to the phenomenon of an eclipse:

The geographic trajectory of the 2017 solar eclipse

On August 21 the sky will suddenly go dark in the middle of the day. The temperature will noticeably drop by many degrees in a few short moments. Birds will stop chirping and flee back to their nests. And millions of Americans will gather under the heavens, from Oregon to South Carolina, to view the total solar eclipse to cross America in many decades.

It is an awesome spectacle – and throughout history, in many eras and in countless cultures, its occurrence was fraught with fear and consternation. For those who lacked the scientif-

“And God said, ‘Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens … and they shall be for signs and for appointed seasons and for days and years’” (Genesis 1:14). What is the meaning of

“for signs”? The classical commentary of Rashi tells us this refers to the times when the luminaries are eclipsed – and “this is an unfavorable omen for the world”!

Does that mean that we ought to now be very afraid?

Remarkably, Rashi concludes his commentary with a reference to words from the prophet Jeremiah: “… As it is said ‘And from the signs of the heaven be not dismayed, etc’ (Jeremiah 10:2) When you perform the will of the Holy One, blessed be He, you need not fear retribution.”

If an eclipse is a prediction of imminent divine punishment, as Rashi inferred from the verse, why would Rashi immediately negate that very idea with a quote advising us not to be dismayed or fearful of heavenly

signs? The answer is profound and rooted in the supreme importance Jews attach to the concept of free will, the ability of mankind to directly affect their destiny by virtue of their self-chosen actions. The concept of Greek fate runs counter to Jewish thought; fate can be altered by faith. As the High Holy Day formula puts it, “Repentance, prayer, and charity override the evil decree.”

An eclipse may be an omen but it is not a verdict or a final judgment. It is a moment in time which serves as a reminder of God’s awesome power and goodness. Without the benefit of the sun, its light, its warmth, its power, its energy and its role in the solar system, we could not survive for a moment. That is why, with infinite wisdom and at preordained times on the

calendar, God removes us from its rays for the briefest of times so that we might reflect on the miracle of its otherwise constant presence which we so readily take for granted. It is that which the Torah refers to as “a sign.”

A sign asks us to take note.

It has a message. Fail to heed it and suffer the consequences reserved for those who take God’s gifts which make life possible for granted. It is not hard to believe that the Creator of the universe built signposts predicated on natural law as ongoing reminders for mankind.

The awesome message of an eclipse and its meaning for us has a remarkable parallel to a universal Jewish custom.

It is extremely important, NASA and other experts tell us, that we cover our eyes and not look directly at the sun when

it happens. Failure to heed this counsel could lead to blindness.

I cannot help but think of the very same admonition to cover our eyes when we recite the Shema. At the moment when we contemplate God’s uniqueness and greatness we indicate that His splendor is beyond the capacity of our vision; to think we truly see His essence with the limited perspective of our eyes is to be blind to the reality of His infinite magnificence.

The eclipse reminds us of a universe so much vaster than our ability to fully comprehend.

Don't fear it, rather welcome it as a sign, as the Psalmist King David reminded us, that “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork”(Psalms 19:1).

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ABCs of Elul The last month of the Jewish calendar is actually the most important – serving as preparation for the High Holidays By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons

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f you had an important court date scheduled – one that would determine your financial future, or even your very life – you'd be sure to prepare for weeks beforehand.

On Rosh Hashanah, each individual is judged on the merit of his deeds. Whether he will live out the year or not. Whether he will have financial success or ruin. Whether he will be healthy or ill. All of these are determined on Rosh Hashanah.

The four Hebrew letters of the word Elul (alephlamed-vav-lamed) are the first letters of the four words Ani l'dodi v'dodi lee – "I am to my Beloved and my Beloved is to me" (Song of Songs 6:3)

of clarifying life's goals, and of coming closer to God. It is a time for realizing purpose in life – rather than perfunctorily going through the motions of living by amassing money and seeking gratification. It is a time when we step back and look at ourselves critically and honestly, as Jews have from time immemorial, with the intention of improving.

The four Hebrew letters of the word Elul (aleph-lamed-vavlamed) are the first letters of the four words Ani l'dodi v'dodi lee – "I am to my Beloved and my Beloved is to me" (Song of Songs 6:3). These words sum up the relationship between God and His people.

In other words, the month preceding Rosh Hashanah is a time when God reaches out to us, in an effort to create a more spiritually-inspiring atmosphere, one that stimulates teshuva.

Slichot Elul – the month preceding Beginning on Saturday night Rosh Hashanah – begins a pe- before Rosh Hashanah, we reriod of intensive introspection, cite "Slichot", a special series of

prayers that invoke God's mercy. If Rosh Hashanah falls at the beginning of the week, then "Slichot" begin on the Saturday night of the previous week. (Sefardim begin saying "Slichot" on Rosh Chodesh Elul.)

After the sin of the Golden Calf, Moses asked God to explain His system for relating with the world. God's answer, known as the "13 Attributes of Mercy," forms the essence of the "Slichot" prayers. The "13 Attributes" speak of "God's patience."

The same God Who created us with a clean slate and a world of opportunity, gives us another opportunity if we've misused the first one.

"Slichot" should be said with a minyan. If this is not possible, then "Slichot" should still be said alone, omitting the parts in Aramaic and the "13 Attributes of Mercy."

Finally, the most important aspect of Elul is to make a plan for your life. Because when the Big Day comes, and each individual stands before the Almighty to ask for another year,

strive to increase our connection to the infinite transcendent dimension.

40-Day Period

Beginning the second day of Rosh Chodesh Elul, it is the Ashkenazi custom to blow the shofar every morning after prayers, in order to awaken us for the coming Day of Judgement

we'll want to know what we're asking for!

Additions to the Services Beginning the second day of Rosh Chodesh Elul, it is the Ashkenazi custom to blow the shofar every morning after prayers, in order to awaken us for the coming Day of Judgement. The shofar's wailing sound inspires

us to use the opportunity of Elul to its fullest.

Also beginning in Elul, we say Psalm 27 in the morning and evening services. (Sefardim say it in the morning and afternoon services.) In this Psalm, King David exclaims: "One thing I ask... is to dwell in the house of God all the days of my life." we focus on the unifying force of God in our lives, and

Rewind 3,000 years to the Sinai Desert. God has spoken the Ten Commandments, and the Jews have built the Golden Calf.

Moses desperately pleads with God to spare the nation.

On the first day of Elul, Moses ascends Mount Sinai, and 40 days later – on the seminal Yom Kippur – he returned to the people, with a new, second set of stone tablets in hand.

For us as well, the month of Elul begins a 40-day period that culminates in the year's holiest day, Yom Kippur.

Why 40? Forty is a number of cleansing and purification. Noah's Flood rains lasted 40 days, and the mikveh – the ritual purification bath – contains 40 measures of water.

Elul is an enormous opportunity. During this time, many people increase their study of Torah and performance of good deeds. And many also do a daily cheshbon – an accounting of spiritual profit and loss.

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Parshas Reeh – The Tree of Knowledge By: Rabbi Naftali Reich

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ince the dawn of human history, mankind has faced, in one guise or another, the same temptations that confronted the very first man and woman, Adam and Chava. After giving us the details of their creation, the Torah describes the challenge they faced in the blissful spiritual existence Hashem provided for them in the Garden of Eden. They were expressly prohibited to eat from the eitz hadaas, the tree of knowledge, yet its delightful fruit proved irresistible to Eve. The Torah describes the nature of the temptation. “It was desirable to be eaten and beautiful to behold”!

The challenge Adam and Chava faced echoes and re-echoes as each and every generation confronts its unique ‘eitz hadaas’ in an ever-changing and often bewildering variation of guises.

“Behold! I have placed before you today the blessing and the curse.

The blessing is that you shall listen to the words of Hashem your G-d, and the curse is when you do not hearken to His voice”.

Our generation has its own enticing ‘tree of knowledge’ that glistens alluringly, urging us to sample its illicit fruits. Its appeal has tragically proven irresistible to so many of our youth. Can they be blamed for surrendering to the tantalizing attraction? Religious rules seem so onerous, rigid

and inhibiting to a generation that has been nurtured with an inherent sense of personal entitlement. Don’t we deserve it, and don’t we deserve it now?

Freedom of expression and freedom of choice have been elevated to the highest status in society’s scale of values.

How then are we to protect both ourselves and our children from the shimmering ‘tree of knowledge’ whose fruits appear ‘so good to eat and so delightful to the eye’?

In the first verse of this week’s Torah portion, Moshe Rabbeinu in his parting message to the Jewish people provides them with an eternal answer. “Behold! I have placed before you today the blessing and the curse. The blessing is that you shall listen to the words of Hashem your G-d, and the curse is when you do not hearken to His voice”.

Living in our Creator’s embrace and following His dictates is defined as a life of blessing. Living outside its pale is defined as a life of curse. Herein Moshe Rabbeinu frames the arena of life and articulates the challenge that we mortals in every age and in every society are forced to grapple with.

But how can we imbibe this important message when all our senses and feelings experience and see just the opposite?

Perhaps we can explain this with a verse in last week’s Torah portion. (Chapter 10 verse 12): “And now, Israel, what does Hashem your G-d ask of you? Only to see/fear Him, to walk in all His ways, to love Him and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul”.

their sick son’s vitality drain from him as he lay in bed.

His temperature continued to soar. His burning fever robbed him of his appetite; he steadfastly refused the delicious food they put before him as well as all medicine. All their exhortations and pleas were futile. They begged a specialist to come to their home to treat their beloved son. The specialist came and saw that the child’s prognosis was very serious. He extracted a strong medicine from his briefcase and told the child that he will only ask him to swallow the medicine a single time. Hearing that this was only a onetime request, the child acquiesced and reluctantly sipped a measure of the life giving elixir. As the doctor walked towards the door, the child’s mother burst out crying. “Dr.” she exclaimed, “he has only agreed to take it this one time, what will we do tonight when you’re gone?” “‘Don’t worry,” the doctor reassured her. “‘Now that he has drunk from this medicine, his appetite will be restored.

Once he begins ingesting food, he will regain his appreciation for its taste. Before long you can be assured that he will be With this parable, the Dubna Maggid explains the meaning of willing to take the necessary our verse about the Torah’s expectation: We are asked “only” medicine every day until he is to “see” and fear G-d. If we only ‘see and fear’ our Creator a fully recovered”. single time, we will be naturally inclined towards continuing our With this parable, the Dubpathway towards spiritual growth. We will be primed and ready na Maggid explains the meanto see the blessing in living a spiritual life ing of our verse about the The Talmud questions the fearing Hasher, immediately Torah’s expectation: We are word “only”; is this long list followed by a string of com- asked “only” to “see” and fear such a simple request? Isn’t it plex and challenging spiritual G-d. If we only ‘see and fear’ our Creator a single time, we disingenuous to request from demands?

A doting father and moth- will be naturally inclined tous the relatively simple assignment of seeing and thus er were tearfully watching wards continuing our pathway

With this parable, the Dubna Maggid explains the meaning of our verse about the Torah’s expectation: We are asked “only” to “see” and fear G-d. towards spiritual growth. We will be primed and ready to see the blessing in living a spiritual life.

Once we experience the sublime joy of ‘seeing’ Hashem and having a heart-to-heart dialogue with Him; once we taste the pleasure of a true Shabbat; once we absorb the self-fulfillment that overtakes every fiber of our being as we extend ourselves to the less fortunate, we will encounter His precious blessings. The allure of tree of knowledge’s artificial stimulants will no longer exert their magnetic draw. At that point, the distinction between the blessing and the curse will be abundantly clear.

This then, is perhaps what Moshe meant at the beginning of our Torah portion. Re’eh, ‘see’ that I present you today with a blessing and a curse.

Only after we have seen and experienced the light and delight of a spiritual life pathway will we be able to make a crystal clear distinction in our life choice. How true the maxim that “a little light banishes a great deal of darkness.”

By infusing our homes with a joyous life in the presence of Hasher, we will ensure that we will always delight in the kosher fruits of our Garden of Eden.

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Parshas Re’eh – It’s All in Our Hands By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis

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n this weeks’s parsha it states, “You shall seek out His presence and you shall come there..” (Deut. 12:5) There appears to be a discrepancy in the passage. It would seem that the more correct way for the Torah to phrase the sentence would have been to first mention the coming there (going to the Temple in Jerusalem), and there, in the midst of sanctity, to find HaShem. The Torah is teaching us however, a very profound lesson, one which we should incorporate into our every-day lives. If we are bent upon finding G-d, no matter where we may be, no matter how far we may have distanced ourselves from Him, if we truly

seek Him, we will find Him. This message is reinforced in the opening passage of the parsha in which it is written: “See, I have placed before you blessing and curse...” There is a grammatical inconsistency in the words “see” and “before you” which is not readily apparent in English, because the words “you” and “see” are used in both plural and singular in the English language. But the Torah states “re’eh” - “see” in the singular, and “lifneichem” - “before you” in the plural, impressing upon us that the blessing of the Torah was bequeathed to the entire nation (you, pl.), but it is up to us as individuals to see it(re’eh - singular).

This message is especially significant in this High Holy Day season when G-d is waiting for

is up to each and every one of likened to an army bugle which us to open our eyes and see and alerts the infantry to the apseize it. proaching battle. Therefore, we must prepare our weapons of Elul – The Season repentance - prayer and charity, for Homecoming tshuva, tefiloh and tzedukah so Very soon, IY’H, we bless that we might triumph over all the upcoming New Month of evil decrees. The shofar reminds Elul which falls on August 22 us to think back to last Rosh Haand ushers in the High Holy shana and recall our New Year’s Day Season. In preparation for resolutions. We must ask ourthese awesome days, we recite selves what has happened to the psalm 27, “L’Dovid HaShem Ori last eleven months of our lives?

V’yishi” - “HaShem is my light Where have they gone? Are we We must prepare our weapons of repentance - prayer and and salvation.” “My light” refers keeping the promises we made, charity, tshuva to Rosh Hashanna and “my Sal- and what can we do to rectiall of us to return to Him. G-d’s of mitzvot. Even one small step vation” refers to Yom Kippur. fy those which we neglected?

Court is open, but whether we toward G-d can be huge and The shofar is blown from this The prophet Amos challenged: will have the wisdom to enter spark a life-transforming jour- day until erev Rosh HaShana. “Shall the shofar be blown in therein depends on us. So let ney. This is the basis of the free The essential purpose of shofar the city and the people not us seize the moment - let us in- choice with which the parsha blowing during this period is to tremble.....shall Rosh HaShana tensify our Torah study; let us challenges us. The blessing is awaken each and every one of come and find us unprepared?” accelerate our prayers, and let given in the plural for the entire us to the challenges of the High (Amos 3:6) us commit to the observance nation to benefit by, but then it Holy Day season. The shofar is (HINENI.ORG)

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Legendary Movie Mogul Continued from page 22 he was a great admirer of Leon Uris as well. I guess it was always in his consciousness to do it.”

In particular, Agam believes Weinstein was motivated by the recent death of his mother. “His mother was a big Zionist,” Agam said, “and I think it’s possible that this is also a tribute to his par-

The project is also deeply connected to Weinstein’s Jewish identity, Agam noted. “Harvey admires the heroism of what happened in the Warsaw Ghetto,” he noted. “You know there’s two events in Jewish life that are markedly different. This is Masada and the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, where Jews showed their heroism in the worst of times. I think he was very impressed by this.”

Agam also related the subject to Weinstein’s famously pugna-

cious personality, saying, “You know Harvey is a bit of a tough guy also, and he sees that revolt as something that inspired him when he was a younger man.

Harvey is a fighter, and I think that there is some sort of a connection. Harvey likes strong Jews.”

Asked if Weinstein had a strong Jewish identity, Agam replied, “Oh yes! You know, the core values that Harvey has are totally Jewish values. Look at his

trajectory in life, and see where he came from and where he is today. If that’s not Jewish I don’t know what is Jewish.”

In addition, Agam asserted that Weinstein was more deeply committed to Judaism and the Jewish people than many realized. “Every time Jews were attacked or Jews had to fight a fight and they needed Harvey’s help he was always there,” he said.

“Sometimes he acted behind the scenes but he’s always there. Al-

ways at the forefront.”

Mila 18, Agam predicted, will be a major cinematic event. “This movie is really very important to him,” Agam said. “I know he told it to me so many times and it will be an extraordinary project. You have to expect that you will see something incredible coming out from his mind and from his experience.”

(Originally published in the Algemeiner – www.algemeiner. com)

Zaidan as an asset. Al-Qaida leaders discussed what they wanted to ask Zaidan, including a 2010 email in which an al-Qaida leader said he hoped to use Zaidan to talk Al Jazeera into running a documentary on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Zaidan isn't the first Al Jazeera journalist accused by the U.S. government of belonging to al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood. Sami Muheidine Mohamed al-Haj worked in Al

Jazeera's Doha newsroom in 2000. He also served as a money courier for al-Qaida under the cover of his employment with Al Jazeera and a beverage company.

Pakistani authorities captured al-Haj in December 2001 because his name appeared on a watch list, and turned him over to U.S. forces in January 2002.

U.S. authorities transferred alHaj to Guantanamo Bay for questioning, including for information about Al Jazeera's

contacts with bin Laden.

A leaked Guantanamo Bay file describes al-Haj as a member of both the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaida.

He belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood's Shura council and was involved in plans to distribute weapons to terrorists in Chechnya. A photo showed Al-Haj in Al Jazeera's Kandahar, Afghanistan office with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad.

Another email captured in

the raid on Bin Laden's compound describes an Al Jazeera cameraman referred to as "Siraj" as a member of the al-Qaida linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, who was imprisoned in Iran. The LIFG maintained a network inside Iran in the 2000s.

Networks have their biases.

But none comes close to Al Jazeera's persistent role as the biggest promoter of terrorist propaganda next to social media.

use them, it is more just for show.

Brennan said, “Some people still seem to like the fact that they could at least put a tennis court on the property. But they don’t use it.”

Bloomberg news explained that many of the brokers in the Hamptons agree that what buyers are looking for now is value.

What is exactly meant by the term “value” is debatable. It is generally determined based on three qualities: location, construction quality, and potential for flipping for a profit.

Location, for the Hamptons area, is about how close the property is to the beach.

Moore said, “That’s what people come out here for. You want to be as close as you can af-

ford.” This week, Moore listed a 5,000-square-foot house on the beach for $55 million.

In the Hamptons, the quality of construction greatly varies. She said, “The poorly slapped-together spec houses with more quantity than quality are just getting very little play.”

ing for freedom.” Sama Sarraj, a teenager from Maryland, pledges that her “top priority” will be to “educate people and raise program.

The online brochure for Go awareness” about “the situation Palestine promises that it “will of the Palestinian people.” change your child’s life forever,” and video blogs on its website il- Role of the Quakers lustrate the impact the program The activities of the Go Palhas had on its participants. A estine program could further camper named Nidalia Nazzal, complicate the already strained from California, declares, “Now relations between the Quaker I appreciate all the people fight- leadership and the American

Jewish community. The Quakers’ public policy division, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), has endorsed the BDS movement and sponsors training programs for boycott activists.

Middle East scholar Asaf Romirowsky, who has written extensively about Quaker attitudes toward Israel, told JNS.org it is “hypocritical” for Quaker leaders to claim to be pacifists

and advocates of coexistence “while their Ramallah school is training teenagers from around the world to hate Israel and idolize terrorists.”

JNS.org asked Shan Cretin, general secretary of AFSC, if Go Palestine’s activities are consistent with AFSC’s mission statement, which emphasizes “active nonviolence and the transforming power of love.” Cretin replied, “There is no connection

tends support and backing to President Donald Trump and to the administration for their remarks repudiating the hate and violence both on Saturday and Monday in condemnation of these hate groups. We believe that all Americans have a great friend and protector of human rights in our President Donald J. Trump. “

diversity through the power of sports, not politics.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said he was resigning to highlight the “serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues.”

“I resigned because I want to make progress, while many in Washington seem more concerned with attacking anyone who disagrees with them,” Krzanich said. “We should honor — not attack — those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.”

Trump, however did pay tribute to the three people who died Saturday, including Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal who had gone to the rally to protest against the white nationalists. She was killed when she was hit by a speeding car driven by suspect James Alex Fields, Jr 20, into a group of counter protesters. He has been charged with second degree murder along with other criminal counts.

A Charlottesville judge refused to grant him bond during his first court appearance Monday.

ents, to his family. Sometimes you can’t explain these things, but he was interviewed at the 92nd Street Y with his brother a few months ago just after his mother passed away. The interviewer asked him so many questions about his life and then he came out and said this is a project that he really cares to do and this is Mila 18.”

Al Jazeera: The Terrorist Continued from page 23

Alleged al-Qaida Members on Al Jazeera's Staff Al Jazeera Islamabad bureau chief and Syrian native Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan – identified in a leaked National Security Agency PowerPoint as a member of both al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood – helped Al Ja-

zeera reporter Ahmed Mansour secure the interview with Joulani. Zaidan denies belonging to al-Qaida. He met with bin Laden several times after 9/11.

Zaidan, however, periodically writes for a website connected with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

Numerous emails retrieved from bin Laden's compound showed that al-Qaida viewed

Big Hamptons Buyers Continued from page 9 home theater as emblematic of the trend.”

Brennan said, “Before, everyone’s theater had to be bigger than the next. Now they’re doing flex-rooms, where the screen can come down, but

when it’s up, it can be a rec room for the kids.”

Once considered a symbol of greatness, tennis courts are also no longer popular with big spenders.

Moore said, “It’s not an imperative for most people.” People who do have courts, rarely

Democratic Senators Concerned Continued from page 10 often are convicted terrorists.

Go Palestine’s directors declined to respond to requests from JNS.org to identify the crimes for which those ex-prisoners were jailed, nor did they respond to inquiries concerning other aspects of their summer

Trump on Charlottesville Continued from page 11 that this will serve as a deterrent for future demonstrations of violence."

"We are appalled by wanton displays of violence and hatred that erupted in Charlottesville on Saturday," said Rabbi Elazar Muskin, president of the Rabbinical Council of America. "We pray for the injured and express our condolences to the families of those who were killed. We join our voices with all those who embrace the best of our country's values of respect, tolerance and decency."

In a statement released to the media, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) said they condemn the violent, racist, anti-Semitic, and hate filled “Unite the Right” rally by white nationalist groups in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday.

“In moments like these, it’s critical that our political leaders speak in a clear voice opposing hatred." stated JCPA Board Chair Cheryl Fishbein. “What our leaders do and say sets the parameters for the rest of the society."

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“There is no comparison between the protestors, who brought hate and violence to the streets of one of the symbolic birth places of American democracy, and the counter protestors” said David Bernstein, JCPA’s President and CEO. "The Rally was one of the largest showings from a hate group in decades. We stand with people of good will from all walks of life who are speaking out against hate. We must drive it back into the underground and to the margins of society.”

“This murderous attack, resembles car ramming in Israel and Europe perpetrated by terrorists associated with ISIS and Hamas. It should be treated as a deliberate act of domestic terrorism", Said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, Dean and Founder and Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights organization. “ The death and violence that followed Friday night’s torchlight march at University of Virginia, reminiscent of KKK rallies where chants of the slogan ‘Blood and

Soil’ used by marchers at mass Nazi rallies in Nuremberg and elsewhere in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, were spouted by extremists”, Center officials added.

"Americans have the right to debate civilly the removal of a statue, the status of a flag or renaming of a park, without turning to violence and worse. We call upon all American leaders, whatever their political affiliations, led by President Trump, to specifically condemn the extreme alt- right and white nationalists who sow seeds of hate, distrust and violence.

They and all other extremists, left or right, have no place in the mainstream of our nation,” Center officials concluded.

In a statement sent to the media, The Rabbinical Alliance of America/IGUD said that its 950 member rabbis condemn and repudiate any and all hate groups.

“We strongly believe that there is no place for hatred and violence in our society. The intimidation and negative atmosphere that was created by this demonstration is anathema to the spirit of these blessed Unites States of America,” said RAA Executive Vice President Rabbi Mendy Mirocznik of Staten Island.

He added that, “the RAA ex-

Business leaders respond Also Monday, three members of the American Manufacturing Council, the president’s advisory board of chief executive officers, resigned over the president’s reaction to the violence.

Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of Merck Pharmaceuticals, said the president initially did not “clearly reject expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.” Trump, in a Twitter response, said that since Frazier had quit the manufacturing council, he would now “have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!” Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank tweeted that he is quitting the council because he would rather unite people and promote

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the property as a good deal.

Brenneman explained, “There are still people who are willing to do the work. They’ll buy something, come in, and fix it up.”

However, there are a lot of people who want to “walk in with their toothbrush,” Brennan said. “That’s one end of the specThe final test is more about trum, but those houses aren’t whether the buyer perceives flying off the shelf.” between AFSC and the Ramallah Friends School,” which runs the camp.

According to AFSC’s website, however, Cretin will be succeeded next month as general secretary by Joyce Ajlouny, who has been head of the Ramallah Friends School for the past 13 years. Jennifer Berg, the director of AFSC’s “Palestine-Israel Program,” was formerly a teacher at the school.

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thanked Trump for denouncing “violence and hatred,” and vowed to continue her daughter’s activism against bigotry. “That’s what America is about, that’s what made America great to begin with. We are a melting pot of everybody coming together and working as one,” Bro said.

Two Virginia state police troopers who had been monitoring the protest from the air were also killed when their helicopter crashed.

Trump spoke after two of his top law enforcement officials, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray, briefed him on the federal probe.

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Saturday’s violence.

Sessions told ABC News, “You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation towards the most serious charges that can be brought, because this is an unequivocally unacceptable and evil attack that cannot be accepted in America.”

Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas said the far right groups broke their agreement with poVictim’s mother lice and entered a city park from speaks out different directions instead of a Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, single entry point.

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after years of searching, that the meaning of life was right in sons to become apparent. It will front of her – in her family, and take time and painful reflec- the love she shared with family tion, but it’s worth it, Mattern and friends.

Mattern says that after Laura says. “It would be so depressing to go through all of this, grew into a young woman they only to learn nothing and have were looking at a book that done nothing.” She realized, posed the question: If you could

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Mattern thought the choice was obvious. Laura disagreed.

“That day changed all of us, I know,” she told her mother. “But I wouldn’t have become the person I am today, and we wouldn’t have cared for each other as much as we do, or have such a wonderful family. No, I would leave that day just like it was.”

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Stem-Cell Treatment May Continued from page 43 cells,” said Leor. “Our findings determine the potential negative effects of inflammation on stem-cell function as they’re currently used. The use of autol-

ly testing a gene editing technique (CRISPER) to inhibit the gene responsible for the ogous stem cells from patients negative inflammatory propwith heart disease should be erties of the cardiac stem cells modified. Only stem cells from of heart disease patients. “We healthy donors or genetically hope our engineered stem cells engineered cells should be used will be resistant to the negative effects of the immune system,” in treating cardiac conditions.”

The researchers are current- said Leor.

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New Arts Degree Boosts Continued from page 40 Queensborough Art Gallery and Kupferberg Holocaust Center offer world-class exhibitions in addition to hands-on learning opportunities to students in a wide variety of arts fields.

Borough of Manhattan Community College students who look forward to careers in performing or teaching music can enroll this fall in the college’s new Associate in Science (A.S.) in Music program with specializations in Music Studies and Music Performance.

The program will integrate

with the Bachelor of Science in Music at Lehman College, which offers a specialization in Music Education. The new program will educate students in the fundamentals of music and in specialized topics in music education and music performance, including music theory, keyboard skills, ear training and sight singing.

Music majors at BMCC have a wide range of facilities to support their work including 16 practice rooms; the Art and Rita Siegel Piano Lab, which provides 24 electronic keyboards, and classrooms with

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Steinway grand pianos as well as a comprehensive collection of percussive and string instruments. Past music majors at BMCC have won national contests and performed widely. Auditions for the Fall 2017 Music Program will be held August 18 in the college’s Fiterman Hall.

Other ongoing CUNY art education programs include LaGuardia Community College integrated with the B.A. and BFA programs at Queens College and Hunter College and the program in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts, and Queensborough Community College with Queens College.

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intentions. Senior levels of the Palestinian leadership believe that Israeli Prime Minister NeContinued from page 17 hold meetings with leaders of tanyahu has decided capitalize Sunni Arab states Saudi Ara- on the regional threat posed namely Kushner, Greenblatt and bia, the United Arab Emirates, by Iran’s nuclear program in Ambassador to Israel David Qatar, Jordan and Egypt, al- order to bypass the Palestinthough it is not yet clear if the ian issue by building a regionFriedman.

The inclusion of the leaders delegation would be traveling al anti-Iran coalition, with of Sunni Arab states on the to those countries – is unlikely the approval of the Trump delegation’s visit -White House to bolster Palestinian confi- administration. sources said the group will also dence in American and Israeli (TPS)

Anti-Israel Curricula Continued from page 10 ments until the summer of 2016.

They only complied with those demands after Judicial Watch submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in October 2014, and even then dragged their feet for another two-and-a-half years.

"The obstruction, the failure to respond to citizens' con-

cerned, the lack of transparency was shocking," said Stotsky.

"The fact that it had to go all the way to a FOIA request is outrageous."

An easy fix to the transparency issue, said Stotsky, would be simply throwing all curricula up on the Internet as a matter of policy.

Inaccurate, misleading, and radical Israel education is an on-

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‘Speaker’s Words Heartfelt’ The vandalism came at a time of heightened awareness of anti-Semitic incidents and xenophobia. Now that the situation is calmer, organizers felt it was the right moment to express their appreciation to all who helped in the aftermath.

“There was a tremendous amount of work that was offered by people, including the monument company that donated their work, and we wanted to use this occasion to give thanks,” says Landa.

In addition to the rabbi, who also recited several chapters of Psalms during the rededication, several other communal leaders spoke on Aug. 6, including Alan

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“It was a poignant program,” says Feigenbaum, “and each speaker’s words were very, very heartfelt.”

Though the perpetrator has not been caught, the cemetery is back to regular business, and the investigation remains ongoing.

Says Feigenbaum: “We want to find out who did this. It helps with closure.”

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company Marco Intelligence 2 Partners, which advises big management firms on global inContinued from page 5 During this time of low in- vestments, said, “By definition, terest rates and slow investing, investors tend to be long the dollars have flowed into risk investors have begun to favor most risk when volatility is at its parity and other machine-driv- automated funds that give low lowest levels. So the question is: How much more volatility do we en funds that are programmed returns but do so consistently.

Julian Brigden of the Colora- need to see before funds start to to start selling stocks and bonds do-based independent research disgorge assets mechanically?” once volatility rises sharply.”

US Diplomacy: When Failure

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Today, despite the unmistakable danger that Iran posContinued from page 19 will issue: “The fact of the mat- es to Israel directly, it is more ter is, that despite all of these than simply a Jewish stake. dience. The US national secu- efforts, the Iranian regime has This is an American interest. rity apparatus prefers to call it been able to succeed in pro- The message is quite clear. The gressing with its program, both practical implications are quite pragmatism.

And count on it. Susan Rice nuclear and missile. That’s a ominous.

Pause to cry. will again be interviewed by very unfortunate outcome; Meir Jolovitz is a past nationthe New York Times and CNN, but we are where we are.” Mcin a joint appearance with Master, resplendent in his uni- al executive director of the ZiPresident Trump’s National Se- form and its military regalia, onist Organization of America, curity Advisor H.R. McMaster, will add: “It will require being and formerly associated with the Institute for Advanced Straadmitting another failure. This pragmatic.”

After all, we are where we tegic and Political Studies. will be the statement that they

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ly for the town. Indeed, this is not the first time a township has fought to take down an eruv. In Continued from page 26 has asked the town’s council to Tenafly, NJ, a six-year legal clash desist on issuing summonses concluded allowing the eruv to no aesthetic, safety, traffic, fiscal and to rather open negotiations stay up, and the town was forced or other concern to Mahwah.” with the eruv group. Laforet said to reimburse the Jewish group Mahwah’s Mayor Bill Laforet a legal dispute would prove cost- over $300,000 in legal fees.

Charlottesville is What Happens Continued from page 20

one to the right of you, some of the marginalized will accept the If you tell all Obama crit- definition.

And when that happens, the ics and Trump supporters that they’re racists often enough, left wins, the extremists win, some will decide that maybe and it becomes harder to maintain any kind of functioning they are racists.

If you tell a student who ob- civil society in which we settle jects to racially segregated areas conflicts through compromises on campus that she is a white rather than street violence.

Compromises are supremacist, she will be more uncomfortable. likely to become one.

After the Civil War, the When you marginalize every-

Jabotinsky, Gush Katif Continued from page 13 Today, August, 2017, the promised building project in Shilo is non-existent. AFSI was guided to the proposed building site on its last trip to Israel, May 2017.

We saw a lovely looking hilltop that was totally untouched. There was NO evidence of any building

going problem at area schools, Stotsky said, pointing to a May 2017 "Middle East History Day" program at Newton North High School, at which he described a speaker as giving an "anti-Israel rant" to 150 students.

According to Stotsky, all the members of the Newton School Committee were sent copies Continued from page 5 of the CAMERA monograph weeks ago, and were asked to respond. Stotsky has been met organizers wrote in their anwith silence. nouncement, “we all know what (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON) happened last Friday, when two

begun there. We understand that the Supreme Court is involved in making some decisions regarding the failed promises, but it is up to Prime Minister Netanyahu to stand by his assurance that there would be new homes for the Amona evacuees and that building would start immediately.

On the anniversary of the

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Union was preserved, but Southerners were allowed to honor their cause. It was an uncomfortable compromise, but it helped limit the violence from a conflict that had claimed the lives of 2% of the population.

The Taliban campaign by black nationalists to tear down Confederate memorials was a deliberate effort at shattering a compromise that kept civil society working.

And that too led to Charlottesville.

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Gush Katif expulsion, we must talk about the failure of the government to fulfill its promises to Jews expelled from their homes.

Unsubstantiated claims by Arabs must not take precedence.

The failure of the Supreme Court and the Prime Minister to put the concerns and needs of Jews ahead of all else, is shameful. It is time to go back to the principles of Jabotinsky, erect the “Iron Wall” and preserve Jewish life.

child in shock [causing him] to wet himself in the police car.

That is outrageous! This is abofficers dragged a three-and- solutely anti-Semitic, they had a-half-year-old boy to a police no legal right to take a person car with no legal right! Dragged from inside a home without a him from the house [of a neigh- warrant or a court order!” bor] to a police car, with the (INN)

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How Safe and Effective Continued from page 42 a general person would not understand about," Eber said. "They hear about SPF and water resistance, but if someone just went aimlessly to pick sunscreen off a shelf, they'd probably end up with one with broad-spectrum coverage, and that's encouraging."

Alex Webb of Hillsborough,

N.C., spends a lot of time outdoors. He hikes, hunts and fishes and works part-time for a construction company. Like many baby boomers, he had some bad sunburns as a kid, boosting his skin cancer risk. So he tries to be careful.

"When I'm out in the sun, I apply sunscreen, wear a brimmed hat and sunglasses,"

China to Implement Continued from page 12

lowing its test of a long-range missile.

Still, Chinese leaders oppose dent Donald Trump to accuse Beijing in July of failing to use blocking all trade with the imits economic leverage to stop poverished North, which they Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear argue might cause widespread hunger. weapons.

The Chinese import cut will Beijing had long been Pyongyang's only diplomatic defender come the week of Foundation but agreed in March 2016 to Day on Sept. 9, the North Koresanctions against the North fol- an holiday commemorating the

De Blasio Challenged Continued from page 3

Malliotakis is devoting 12 hours a day to the Mayoral Party Chairman Mike Long. race, marching in parades, at“She understands legislation, tending community dinners the law and budgets and how and meeting with activists. money is wasted in govern- Malliotakis will need to work ment. She’s going to surprise a hard if she wants to compete with de Blasio’s $5 million of lot of people.”

Plan to Rezone Midtown Continued from page 6

ing could cease to stand out on the Midtown skyline. Before all According to the NYT, “The of the new towers can sprout, change could result in more developers must strike deals ultra-tall towers like One Van- with the owners of landmark derbilt, which is going up near buildings like St. Patrick’s. The Grand Central Terminal and cathedral has not made full use will be nearly as tall as the Em- of development rights for the pire State Building. When all block it occupies on Fifth Aveof the additional development nue opposite Rockefeller Cenrights have been used in a de- ter, and can now sell the rest, cade or two, the Chrysler Build- totaling about 1.1 million square

said Webb, 64. "I also have a couple of SPF long sleeve shirts of thin material for hot weather.

I look for some shade and take an umbrella for the beach."

He's also extra careful at the shore, mindful that the reflection from water and sand "seems to make you burn quicker."

The study was published as a letter in the August issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

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founding of the country's government in 1948.

North Korean imports of Chinese oil, consumer goods and other products rose 36.7 percent from a year earlier in the first half of this year to 1.1 billion yuan ($165 million), according to Chinese customs data. Chinese imports from the North fell 7.6 percent in the same period to 611 million yuan ($91 million), squeezing the North's revenue. campaign funding. She has only $233,251 in her campaign treasuries, as per Friday’s campaign filings. Malliotakis doesn’t seem fazed. “I defeated an incumbent when I was outspent 2 to 1,” she said, referring to when she beat well-funded Democratic Assemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer. “I can do it again.” feet.”

The market will determine the price of the air rights, but the plan calls for a minimum city tax of $61.49 per square foot on any sale of such air rights.

The funds brought in by this tax, officials said, will go towards the $50 million that the city promised to spend on improving the streets and public plazas in East Midtown.

Garodnick said, “The goal is to improve East Midtown not to simply keep it as it is.”

The Historic Meseritz Synagogue has reopened. Please join us for weekday Mincha at 7:00 pm, Erev Shabbos/ Friday at 7:00 pm and Shabbos morning at 9:30 am. Come and help keep the history of this 110-yearold synagogue alive.

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Talking Campus Free Speech on Capitol Hill – Part 2 By: Bruce Bawer

by describing his own “white privilege”: I graduated North Hollywood (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) High with a 1.7 GPA. I could he fifth person testi- not find a job. I walked to a fire fying before the com- station in North Hollywood. mittee was comedian Adam Carolla, who was there because he and radio host Dennis Prager have made No Safe Spaces, a forthcoming film on free speech. Carolla (who noted that he himself never attended college) testified that about fifteen years ago he had appeared on “a hundred college campuses with nary a word of negativity, no safe spaces, and no stuffed animals being handed out”; recently, however, he was invited to speak at Cal State Northridge only to have the administration cancel it. What's happened? His answer: we've mistakenly decided that if we “put kids in a bubble,” they'll “come out stronger” at the other Dave Brat (R-VA), an end. “These are 18- and 19-year- economist by training, spoke old kids that are at these college rather eloquently about the campuses,” he said. “They grew idea of the university and its up dipped in Purell, playing soc- betrayal by postmodernists cer games where they never kept who have cut off all score...and we’re asking them to connection with the entire be mature.” He called for “the philosophical tradition. adults to start being the adults.”

Just as it's necessary “to expose I was nineteen. I was living in your children to germs and dirt the garage of my family home. and the environment to build My mom was on welfare and up their immune system,” he ar- food stamps and I said, “Can gued, you need to expose them I get a job as a fireman?” And they said, “No, because you're to challenging ideas, too.

Later, Carolla offered a not black, Hispanic, or a womwonderful riposte to Plaskett an. We'll see you in about seven

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years.” And I went to a construction site and dug ditches and picked up garbage for the next seven years. I got a letter in the mail, sent to my father's house, saying: “Your time has come to

Carolla was by far the best thing about the hearing. He brought the whole thing down to earth. He made it real. He spoke glowingly about the role of mutual ribbing in friendships,

The fifth person testifying before the committee was comedian Adam Carolla, (pictured above) who was there because he and radio host Dennis Prager have made No Safe Spaces, a forthcoming film on free speech

do the written exam for the L.A Fire Department. I took it, and I was standing in line and I had a young woman of color standing behind me in line, and I turned around and said to her, “Just out of curiosity, when did you sign up to become a fireman, or person, because I did it seven years ago?” She said, “Wednesday.”

That is an example of my white privilege.

and the importance of a healthy sense of humor – the opposite of snowflake-type self-seriousness and oversensitivity – to human interaction. He observed that the kind of real diversity he encountered in his own early career had shaped attitudes on his part that are lacking among many college students – precisely because (“diversity training” or not) they've had such limit-

ed exposure to people with different views and backgrounds.

I don't know whom Carolla voted for in the presidential election, but he embodied the Trump base – hard-working whites who were born into the working class, who had to make their own breaks, and who are sick to death of being told they have privilege. Not least, Corolla made members of both parties laugh – and that laughter itself felt like a powerful retort to the humorless ideology at the root of the campus crisis.

I was impressed by several of the House members. Dave Brat (R-VA), an economist by training, spoke rather eloquently about the idea of the university and its betrayal by postmodernists who have cut off all connection with the entire philosophical tradition. Raskin fondly recalled that audience members at the Lincoln-Douglas debates heckled the candidates – but their heckling had been a good-natured, useful way of raising serious questions, and afterwards they had quietly listened to the candidates' answers. Was there any way, he asked, of restoring this “art of heckling”? I've never admired Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), a former ACLU honcho who has represented the District of Columbia in Congress since the Pleistocene Era, but I have to give her one thumbs-up for her insistence that no black student

I don't know whom Carolla voted for in the presidential election, but he embodied the Trump base – hard-working whites who were born into the working class, who had to make their own breaks, and who are sick to death of being told they have privilege should ever try to shut down anyone's freedom of speech – after all, she noted, it was that very freedom that enabled Frederick Douglass to travel all over the U.S. speaking out against slavery even while it was still in existence. For heaven's sake, somebody even mentioned Friedrich Hayek.

At its best, the hearing provided an impressive display of at least some House members engaged in intelligent, informed exchange about an urgent social issue. Whether the hearing will make any difference is another question.

The mainstream media ignored it, and there was little mention by the participating lawmakers of any substantive action that might be taken to rescue free speech at colleges – most of which, after all, receive federal funds. But a hearing is better than nothing. And who knows?

It might just be a start.

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he Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot has been named the top research institution in the world outside the United States, and the sixth-best overall in an international ranking, the Institute said in a release last Wednesday.

Weizmann president Professor Daniel Zajfman credited the school’s approach to research for the ranking, saying “we recruit scientists who are among the best in the world and let them follow their curiosity.

The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot has been named the top research institution in the world outside the United States, and the sixth-best overall in an international ranking, the Institute said in a release last Wednesday.

The Institute was the only overseas body to make it into the top 15 of the 2017 Nature Index, published by the nature.com website, beating out American west coast powerhouses Caltech and Stanford University. Photo Credit: Itzik Bellenitzki/TPS

“That is what leads, in the end to innovative and surprising new applications that shape the future,� Zajfman said.

The Institute was the only overseas body to make it into the top 15 of the 2017 Nature Index, published by the nature.com website, beating out American west coast powerhouses Caltech and Stanford University. Scripps Research Institute in San Diego topped the list, while Rockefeller

University in New York came in second and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston third.

The Index ranked the world’s top 200 research institutions according to the impact each institution’s academic research has had on innovation by examining how research articles are cited in third party patents.

By looking at patents owned by third parties – informed by and citing academic work – rather than those held by the academic institutions themselves, the influence of research on the development of products and services is exposed,� the site said.

David Swinbanks, founder of the Nature Index, said the academic players featured in the index may well shape tomorrow’s inventions, at a time when the transfer of scientific knowledge into industry and the economy is a growing priority for governments and research funding agencies alike. “The need to demonstrate that publicly-funded science is being used for society’s benefit is paramount,� Swinbanks said.

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rts and music graduates from two CUNY community colleges have new prestigious paths to bachelor’s degrees and careers in the arts this fall. National accreditation for Queensborough Community College’s arts programs and Borough of Manhattan Community College’s new linkage with Lehman College’s B.S. in Music program open new horizons for arts students. “The City University of New York offers an education in the arts equal to that at the most highly regarded private schools at a fraction of the cost,� said Chancellor James B. Milliken. “CUNY provides the opportu-

nity for all students to pursue their passion in the arts.�

Queensborough Community College in June received accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, one of only 19 community colleges in the nation to be accredited by NASAD and the only one in New York. With this Queensborough joins the ranks of New York City’s premier art education institutions to offer a nationally recognized art and design education.

Most Queensborough art and design graduates want to go on to earn a bachelor’s degree. The majority of four-year private art colleges accept transfer students into the third year of their programs. With accreditation, the students who attend Queens-

borough for their first two years can be confident that their education will be of the same caliber as that at the private institutions, but at often significantly less cost.

In addition, students will be able to get full credit for their first two years of foundation study in art, although transfer schools frequently allow only partial credits to two-year schools.

The rigorous five-year NASAD accreditation process examines not only the art programs but also the college itself, the faculty, the successful graduates and the support systems that are in place to ensure a rich educational experience. The See New Arts Degree Boosts , page 37

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10 Top Travel Technologies to Ease Your Journeys There are close to 300 travel-related companies in the startup nation. We chose 10 that are red hot

sonalized trip for families that even includes meetings with local families.

120,000 people who have downStart by picking an itinerary loaded the app (another way for your chosen destination (IsTrailze is like Waze). Choose the rael, New York and Japan are level of difficulty you’re seeking currently on offer), then modify and Trailze will pick a route for it according to your dates and you. specific needs. Each itinerary

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of cities, London, Paris and New York City have the largest user sraelis love to travel. base, with Tel Aviv, Berlin and Whether it’s a post-army Los Angeles coming up strong. trek to South America or a During the Tel Aviv “White family outing to the Alps, it Night” celebration, Sidekix sometimes seems there are more highlighted the evening’s best Israelis beyond the country’s parties and outdoor concerts. borders than within. So it’s not surprising that travel technol- 3. EatWith ogy from Israel is red hot right EatWith is like Airbnb for now – both websites and apps. meals. You use the app or webWith close to 300 travel-re- site to book a place at a dinner lated companies in the startup party cooked by local chefs in nation, it was hard for us to their homes. It’s a whole lot pick our top 10, but we did the more social than eating alone heavy lifting and you get to sit in a restaurant. There’s a Tinder back and go with the flow (of aspect to EatWith: Hungry travtourists) using these very cool elers contact a host, but the host products. chooses the guest based on his Tell us your favorite Israeli or her EatWith profile.

EatWith enables you to eat with locals. Photo: courtesy travel apps in the comments Prices range from $25-$50 section below.

Another Waze-y feature al- lists the guide who’s developed per person. EatWith started in lows users to report events along the plan and a chat button that the way – whether that’s a mud- encourages interested travelers slide or an undiscovered swim- to ask questions before booking. ming hole. There are 5,000 trails For tour guides, Guiderr has currently on Trailze, most in built its own online platform on Israel, with a few hundred more which tour guides can manage available in Germany, the Unit- their business, from query to ed Kingdom and the United reservation.

States. Trailze users have walked 7. RoutePerfect or biked a million miles.

RoutePerfect offers a slightly 5. ThemeGo different spin on the customized Sometimes it’s not walking itinerary website. Unlike Voyjer, you want but a little Disney fun. which uses local guides to map But with so many theme parks out your travel plan, Routearound the world, how do you Perfect does it automatically know which one to choose? through a single-click, single And once you get there, which point-of-purchase package.

In Jerusalem, for example, you can tour the Machane Yehuda You enter where you want to market area or the Old City. There are even some vegan tours in rides are the most appropriate for your family? Which have Tel Aviv. You pay at the restaurant using a BiteMojo e-voucher. the shortest lines? Israeli website Tours cost $25-$50 per person on average. The app helps eliminate foodie FOMO (the fear that you’re missing out on the ThemeGo gives you the lowbest restaurants in town). down through user-generated reviews and rankings.

1. Gooster Yes, you could get the same Tel Aviv but has expanded to Planning an itinerary by 200 cities across Europe and the on TripAdvisor, but ThemeGo swiping through menus in an US with 650 participating hosts. is faster and more targeted. app or clicking on a website is so EatWith is not just for travelers; There are sections for attrac2012. Gooster gooses up the in- locals are discovering EatWith tions, events, restaurants and teraction through its free smart as they look for a unique outing hotels. Not surprisingly, Disney chatbot that works within Face- or an opportunity to meet their parks hold six of the top slots in book Messenger. When you fire neighbors. EatWith says 11,000 the ThemeGo top 10. You can it up, Gooster asks you where diners have been hosted in 50 bookmark attractions to create your own mobile route using you’re traveling and whether countries so far.

Google Maps. Founder Yariv you want to learn more about Padva built ThemeGo from his cool cafés, tourist sites or the personal passion. “I’m a huge latest in-places to party. Gooster theme park fan and have visitresponds accordingly. ed more than 30 theme parks Gooster is location-specific around the world,” he says. and has a database of 50,000 tips and recommendations “from the useful to the off-the-beaten track,” CEO Ardon Wesley tells ISRAEL21c. Gooster is available now for Tel Aviv, Amsterdam and Berlin with four more cities coming in the next six months.

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start and end your trip, what type of vacation you’re looking for, how many days you’re traveling for, and whether your budget is economy, moderate or luxury. RoutePerfect then suggests which cities you should visit, where you should stay and how you should get around. If all that choice is overwhelming, there are ready-made itineraries to choose from. RoutePerfect covers European destinations only.

an tours in Tel Aviv. You pay at the restaurant using a BiteMojo e-voucher. Tours cost $25-$50 per person on average. The app helps eliminate foodie FOMO (the fear that you’re missing out on the best restaurants in town).

“Everyone wants to eat what the locals are eating,” says Bitemojo CEO Michael Weiss, who also founded the culinary tourism company Yalla Basta. Bitemojo plans to add a few more European cities in 2017.

8. Bitemojo

9. SeeVoov

Gastronomic tourists have a new reason to rejoice: Israeli app Bitemojo provides guided food tours in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Rome and Barcelona. Bitemojo is not just a travel guide; you actually book a tour that includes small tastes at six different restaurants along a preset itinerary.

In Jerusalem, for example, you can tour the Machane Yehuda market area or the Old City. There are even some veg-

SeeVoov is more of a technology company than a customer-facing travel business – although it’s that too. SeeVoov (a transliteration of the Hebrew for “walk around”) calls itself a “high definition trip planning platform” – a fancy way of saying the site crawls YouTube and puts together videos for your requested destination.

Choose Croatia and SeeVoov See 10 Top Travel Technologies , page 37

LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF FIREWORKS.

2. Sidekix If Bitemojo is Waze for foodies, then Sidekix is Waze for walkers. When you want to get from point A to point B in your car, you usually want the fastest route. Not when you’re walking – then you may prefer the most scenic itinerary, one that passes by hip shopping, food, culture, nightlife and more. Enter your destination and the Sidekix app gives you a choice of walks. Users can also share their routes so others can follow in their footsteps.

Sidekix chief marketing officer Jenny Drezin told ISRAEL21c that locals are using Sidekix as “a tool for urban discovery.” Available in hundreds

Trailze is like Waze for hikers and bikers. Screenshot: courtesy

4. Trailze If you’ve ever been out hiking or biking and arrived at a junction where you weren’t sure which way to turn, you’ve probably wished there were a Waze for the great outdoors. That’s Israeli app Trailze’s mission.

Trailze combines the power of GPS mapping with what the company calls “the world’s largest database of trails, locations and outdoor information,” created automatically in part by the

Bitemojo enables you to sample local cuisine. Photo by Amir Menachem/VibeIsrael

6. Guiderr Guiderr is one of two Israeli startups on our list that promises to plan a custom trip for its users. Guiderr’s niche is families. The company uses its network of travel agents and tour guides to piece together a per-

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Disability Inclusion: The Ultramarathon of Social Justice Goals By: Shlomit Grayevsky

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s the summer sun continues to beat down on Jerusalem’s congested roadways, I am continually impressed with the runners who brave the crowds and sweltering heat day after day to get and stay in shape for the Jerusalem Marathon. True, the race is nearly 8 months away.

But as any marathoner will tell you, the key to training is starting early, staying consistent and building upon your accomplishments one stride at a time.

Here at ALEH’s residential facility in Jerusalem, we have used that same strategy to prepare our residents, children and young adults with severe complex disabilities, for the challenge of tackling the Jerusalem Marathon’s 800-meter ‘Community Track’ – a small step for you and me but a giant developmental leap for individuals who cannot walk on their own.

For the last four years, police officers from Jerusalem’s Lev Habira station have spent much of their free time during the winter months training with our exceptional young men and women. As the officer’s walk back and forth beneath our office windows, helping our older residents along with walkers and actually wearing our younger residents in special harnesses, we are always overcome with emotion.

This weekly training ritual is

a source of great encouragement to our specialized medical and educational staff members, who have dedicated their lives to providing quality disability care and promoting inclusion, because it shows them that their investment of time and effort – not to mention blood, sweat and tears – really does make a difference.

As ALEH Jerusalem celebrates its 20th anniversary, I am struck by the similarities between our facility’s slow but steady growth over a period of two decades and the race preparations that I have witnessed over the last few years. In both cases, a dedicated team identified a challenge and dug deep to solve it, remaining consistent and resolute, and building upon even the smallest accomplishments to charge ever forward.

In 1988, Israel passed “Chok HaShiluv,” a law that focused on providing equal opportunities and experiences for all and created integrated programming in educational settings. With the goal of promoting this ideal of equality in every aspect of life and creating a residence and treatment center that felt like a true home, ALEH, which had been founded a few years earlier by a group of dedicated parents, took this breakthrough and ran with it, utilizing this new legislation to pave the way for governmental participation, funding and support.

Initially, our centers were established with the goal of

By remaining committed to our goals, our focus on “slow and steady” growth allowed us to continue enhancing the lives of amazing residents for 20 years.

Negativity has never weighed us down, and our dedication to the special children in our care has steered us clear of self-doubt and fatigue. Whenever we encountered rocky terrain, we adjusted to the challenge and kept moving forward. Whenever we were told that we couldn’t accomplish something, we redoubled our efforts and proved that we could.

Had we started out focused on sprinting, tackling only the immediate problems in front of us, I don’t believe we would have ever succeeded. We have thrived for so long because we have always been motivated by the much larger goal of true disability inclusion, the ultramaraAs ALEH Jerusalem celebrates its 20th anniversary, I am struck by thon of social justice goals to be the similarities between our facility’s slow but steady growth over sure.

When we started building a period of two decades and the race preparations that I have in central Jerusalem, the comwitnessed over the last few years munity was hesitant to say the But we didn’t stop there. Re- least. But after dispelling their we could do for the disability community, and we could only sponding to the needs of the fears through education and inget there if we properly educat- incoming children and their teraction, we have changed the ed the governmental decision families, we developed a reha- face of Jerusalem and Israel as makers and the communities in bilitative kindergarten and day a whole.

ALEH has become a neighwhich we operated about inclu- care center, opened state-of-thesion and the importance of en- art special education classrooms bourhood hotspot, and the halls and specialized therapy rooms, ring with laughter and song hancing disability services.

By 2007, we had effectively and created a lending library every Sabbath and during all of made our case and worked with that provides parents and ed- the holidays. Volunteerism and Israel’s Ministry of Health to ucators with developmental corporate assistance has skyrocketed. More national service open a high-dependency hospi- games for home use. providing children and young adults with severe complex disabilities with quality care and intensive support to live full lives and perform daily actives such as eating, bathing, sitting and playing. But we realized that there was so much more that

How Safe and Effective Is Your Sunscreen?

One out of three may not offer the right protection, study suggests By: Carole Tanzer Miller

 More than 8 out of 10 sunscreens sold at two chains have the recommended SPF of 30 or t may be easier than ever to higher. find sunscreen with all the  More than 9 out of 10 prodright stuff, but be sure to ucts checked give broad-specread the label or you could trum protection, meaning they still get burned. block both UVA (ultraviolet A) Most sunscreens sold at maand UVB (ultraviolet B) rays. jor U.S. retailers and their webUVA penetrates the skin more sites now offer broad-spectrum deeply and is thought to cause protection, are water-resistant more skin aging. UVB rays are and have an SPF (sun protection the main cause of sunburn. factor) of 30 or higher as the Both cause skin cancer, the most American Academy of Dermacommon cancer in the United tology (AAD) recommends, a States, affecting 1 in 5 Amerinew study found. cans, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.  More than three-quarters of sunscreens evaluated are water-resistant for 40 to 80 minutes.  In all, about 70 percent of products met all three AAD recommendations. As with the 2014 study, tanning and bronzing products were far less likely to do so.

"We had hypothesized that not much would have changed, but there were some positive results and hopefully, we will continue to move in the right direction," said study corresponding Most sunscreens sold at major U.S. retailers and their websites author Dr. Ariel Eva Eber, of now offer broad-spectrum protection, are water-resistant the University of Miami Miller and have an SPF (sun protection factor) of 30 or higher as the School of Medicine.

American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) recommends, a She said the availability of new study found. more products with broad-specBut more than a third of dermatologist at Duke Health trum protection was especially sunscreens sold by several of in Durham, N.C. "But I think positive.

"It's the one thing that maybe the nation's largest retailers fell there's still confusion, based on short. Forty-one percent of sun- what my patients ask me."

See How Safe and Effective , page 38 The study found: screens did not meet all three

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tal wing for children in need of advanced nursing care. Thanks to many other great partners who heeded our call, we were also able to offer rehabilitative services, special education, social opportunities and support for families.

volunteers are shifting the focus of their university studies to special education and disability care than ever before. And our relationships with the management at restaurants, malls, schools, and office buildings has resulted in massive structural and cultural overhauls to ensure that all of their facilities are accessible to one and all.

We are so proud of what we have achieved and how far Israel has come, but it’s clear that we have not yet reached the finish line. To reach a goal of this magnitude, we will need to run as a team – all of us.

We are so thankful for the support of our incredible partners around the world, both those who have always run alongside us and those who have cheered us on from the side lines. But true inclusion and equality – of experience and opportunity – will only be within our reach when we all lace up, focus our energies on improving the lot of the disability community in earnest, and work together to build upon our shared accomplishments one stride at a time.

Let’s go, team. It’s time to pound the pavement.

Shlomit Grayevsky is the Director of ALEH Jerusalem and Assistant Director General of ALEH (www.aleh.org), Israel’s foremost network of state-of-theart facilities for children with severe complex disabilities.

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recommendations, researchers from the University of Miami and University of Michigan reported.

Tanning and bronzing products, in particular, tended to be lacking, the researchers said.

In a follow-up to a 2014 study, the researchers checked more than 470 sunscreens available at big pharmacy websites to see if they met the AAD guidelines.

"Even in just three years, we've seen pretty impressive improvement," said Dr. Matilda Nicholas, a board-certified

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Soft Exoskeleton Improves Walking for Stroke Survivors

ALS Treatment to Begin Phase 3 Clinical Trials in US

Israel’s ReWalk is working with Harvard on developing an ‘exosuit’ to help MS and stroke patients regain mobility

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics’ NurOwn platform enhances a patient's own adult stem cells to halt progression of incurable neurodegenerative diseases.

By: Brian Blum

have had a stroke, as well as for those diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease or eWalk, the pioneering people who have limitations in Israeli company that walking.” makes a robotic exoReWalk is collaborating on skeleton to get people the Restore design with Harvard with spinal-cord injuries on University’s Wyss Institute for their feet, premiered the protoBiologically Inspired Engineertype for a soft suit intended to ing. Jasinski expects it will be assist stroke survivors and pamore affordable than ReWalk tients suffering from multiple 6.0, which has a list price of sclerosis regain mobility. $77,000.

There are an estimated 3 milA new Wyss Institute study lion stroke survivors with lowpublished in the Journal of Scier-limb disability in the United ence Translational Medicine States alone. found that using the Restore ReWalk’s flagship product, prototype provided immediate ReWalk 6.0, includes robotic improvements in walking capaleg attachments that can weigh bility for nine ambulatory paup to 50 pounds. The new suit tients following a stroke.

– called “Restore” – uses similar “We are thrilled with the technologies and mechanics, progress of the Restore system, but is much lighter and simpler. which will provide life-changRestore looks like the kind of ing technology to a whole new harness construction workers class of patients facing mobilwear when scaling a building. ity issues,” said Jasinski. “With There’s a waist belt fitted with a the prototype finished, we are motor and battery. Flexible ca- The prototype of Restore. eager to begin clinical studies bles run from the motor to the Photo courtesy of ReWalk and pursue regulatory approvankles, leg braces and shoe sen- Technologies and Harvard als so that these systems can be sors and are attached through fabric-based designs (hence the paraplegic community,” said Re- provided to millions of patients description of Restore as a “soft Walk CEO Larry Jasinski. “The who can benefit from access to ongoing research at the Wyss the device.” suit”).

ReWalk was founded in 2001 “Exoskeletons are now a com- Institute on soft exosuits adds mercially available, disruptive a new dimension to exoskele- and has offices in Yokne’am (Istechnology that has changed the tons that can potentially meet rael), the United States and Gerlives of many individuals in the the needs of individuals that many.

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Stem-Cell Treatment May Harm Heart Disease Patients Israeli researchers discover that using cells from the host patient to repair tissues in the heart can be toxic By: Israel 21C Staff

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or patients with severe and end-stage heart failure there are few treatment options left apart from transplants and stem-cell therapy. But a new Israeli study finds that stem-cell therapy may harm heart-disease patients.

The research, led by Prof.

Jonathan Leor of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sheba Medical Center and conducted by TAU’s Dr. Nili Naftali-Shani, explores the current practice of using cells from the host patient to repair tissue — and contends that this can prove toxic for patients.

“We found that, contrary to popular belief, tissue stem cells derived from sick hearts do not contribute to heart healing after injury,” said Leor. “Furthermore, we found that these cells are affected by the inflammatory environment and develop inflammatory properties. The affected stem cells may even exacerbate damage to the already diseased heart muscle.”

Tissue or adult stem cells — “blank” cells that can act as a repair kit for the body by replacing damaged tissue — encourage the regen-

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rainStorm Cell Therapeutics of Petah Tikva is recruiting American patients for a Phase 3 clinical study of its NurOwn stem-cell treatment intended to halt progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

The announcement was made in a patient webinar last week.

The NurOwn platform grew out of a technique developed at Tel Aviv University for growing and enhancing stem cells harvested from patients’ own bone marrow. The enhanced cells, injected via lumbar puncture, secrete elevated levels of nervegrowth factors believed to protect existing motor neurons, promote motor neuron growth and reestablish nerve-muscle interaction.

A 24-week Phase 2 safety study was concluded in 2016 on 48 participants (36 treated, 12 placebo) with possible, probable and definite ALS. This study was done at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Mayo Clinic.

The Phase 3 double-blind, placebo-controlled study, to begin enrollment in August, will look at efficacy and safety of

ALS concept image via Shutterstock.com

repeated doses. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has awarded Brainstorm a $16 million grant to support the pivotal trial.

This study will accept 200 randomized study participants between the ages of 18 and 60 (half getting the treatment and half a placebo) at the three previous centers as well as California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, UC-Irvine near Los Angeles and another site not announced.

Potential participants must live within about 100 miles of one of the centers for ease of follow-up. They will receive three doses over a 16-week treatment phase and then undergo 28

weeks of follow-up.

BrainStorm President and CEO Chaim Lebovits said he hopes to get approval by the end of the year for a hospital exemption program in Israel — an accelerated regulatory pathway – that would clear the way for a first batch of 50 patients to receive NurOwn at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. However, there will be no “compassionate treatment” using NurOwn in Israel or elsewhere.

The NurOwn platform technology also has potential applications in any neurodegenerative disease, such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s.

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4 Tips For Overcoming Life’s Most Traumatic Experiences Edited by: JV Staff

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ouldn’t it be great if our most difficult days came with Hollywood-happy endings?

In the movies, when faced with the worst possible situations, our heroes rise to the occasion and find strength they never knew they had. But those who experience real-life traumas are just as likely to end up questioning their faith in God, their family and themselves.

The scars, both physical and emotional, may never completely heal. And it can take years to find “meaning” from it all.

Even those who seem equipped to handle the worst – because of their religious beliefs or strong family and community connections – can find themselves questioning everything.

For patients with severe and end-stage heart failure there are “There certainly are difficult lessons to learn few treatment options left apart from transplants and stem-cell when your life is suddenly turned upside down,” therapy. But a new Israeli study finds that stem-cell therapy may says Susan Mattern, author of “Out of the Lion’s harm heart-disease patients.

Den: A Little Girl’s Mountain Lion Attack, A eration of blood vessel cells involved in the negative inter- Mother’s Search for Answers” (www.outoftheand new heart muscle tissue. action between stem cells and lionsden.net).

Faced with a worse survival the immune system as they In 1986, while Mattern, her husband and their rate than many cancers, many isolated stem cells in mouse two children were hiking in Casper’s Wilderness heart-failure patients have models of heart disease. After- Park in Orange County, California, a mountain turned to stem-cell therapy as ward, they focused on cardi- lion grabbed her 5-year-old daughter, Laura, and ac stem cells in patients with disappeared. By the time she was found and resa last resort.

“But our findings suggest heart disease. cued, Laura had been severely mauled. She surThe results could help im- vived, but lost the use of her right hand and the that stem cells, like any drug, can have adverse effects,” said prove the use of autologous vision in one eye. She had severe brain injuries, Leor. “We concluded that stem stem cells — those drawn from and her life hung in the balance for weeks. cells used in cardiac therapy the patients themselves — in Mattern, a former nun, struggled with guilt, should be drawn from healthy cardiac therapy, Leor said. anger, stress and frustration as she fought to help “We showed that the deletion her daughter recover – and to hold the coundonors or be better genetically of the gene responsible for this ty accountable when she learned the staff knew engineered for the patient.”

The researchers, who pub- pathway can restore the origi- there were mountain lions in the park but hadn’t lished their study in the jour- nal therapeutic function of the warned visitors. nal Circulation, also discovIn the decade after the attack, she lost her reliered the molecular pathway See Stem-Cell Treatment May , page 37 gious faith, but came out of the experience with a

The scars, both physical and emotional, may never completely heal. And it can take years to find “meaning” from it all.

new kind of happiness and fulfillment.

Mattern has these tips for those battling to come back after a life-changing trauma:  Have faith in yourself. If you don’t believe in a higher power, or if you lose your religious faith, you can find your own meaning in life. “It was very difficult to give up my beliefs,” she says. “But instead of a vast emptiness where God used to be, there is caring, love and friendship.”  Have more than one focus. Mattern’s primary goal was helping her daughter get well, but the family also spent years battling Orange County in court. “The trial took up so much of our life, and that was a good thing in many ways,” she says. “It gave us another purpose.”  If you can’t find courage within yourself, look to those you love. Decades after her daughter’s attack, Mattern still is in awe of her friends; her husband, Don; and her daughter’s rescuers, doctors and legal team. But she draws the most strength from Laura, who isn’t bitter and lives an independent and fulfilling life.  Don’t expect to draw lessons from the experience right away. You may need to wait for the lesSee 4 Tips For Overcoming , page 37

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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. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/18-9/22]

Notice of formation of 44 4th Ave Realty Group LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/2017. Office location, County of Kings. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 98 Kean St., West Babylon NY 11704. Purpose: any lawful act. [8/119/15]

4412 4TH AVE., LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/9/2017. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 4412 4th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11220, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [8/11-9/15]

Notice of Formation of Egger & Co. JPM LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/18/17. 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.

Notice of Qualification of Hudson & Marshall, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/18/17. 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. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of L.D. Pickering & Co. LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/19/17. 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.

Notice of Qualification of DXC TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/1/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/18/17. 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.

Notice of Formation of J.C. Orr & Co. LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/18/17. 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.

Notice of Formation of RESEARCH ACTION, LLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 07/06/2017. Off. Loc.: Kings County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Abby Scher,40 Ocean Pkwy, Apt 5G, Brooklyn, NY 11218.

Purpose: to engage in any lawful act. [8/119/15]

Notice of Formation of Inno Promos LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/27/17. 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: 325 N End Ave, 6L, NY, NY 10282. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Lin Zeng, 325 N End Ave, 6L, NY, NY 10282. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Application for Authority of Cathedral Consulting, LLC a foreign limited liability company (LLC). Application for Authority filed with Secy. of State of New York on 07/24/2017. LLC organized in Oregon on 03/15/2017. NY office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: C/O Rathbone Barton Olsen PC, 4949 Meadows Road Suite 600, Lake Oswego, OR 97035. Office address in jurisdiction of organization: 4949 Meadows Road Suite 600, Lake Oswego, OR 97035.

Copy of Articles of Organization on file with Secy. of State of OR, 255 Capitol Street NE, Suite 151, Salem, OR 97310. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [8/11-9/15]

Notice of Qualification of HFZ Bryant Park Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/27/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/13/13. 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.

Notice of Qualification of AdGenesis Holdings LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/29/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/20/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 49 W. 27th St., Mezzanine West, NY, NY 10001. DE address of LLC: United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/11-9/15]

Francis Ying NYC, LLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 03/23/2017. Off. Loc.: New York County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 150 Nassau St., New York, NY 10038.

Purpose: to engage in any lawful act. [8/119/15]

Notice of Formation of BENENSON TECH, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/10/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: Frederick C. Benenson, c/o Benenson Capital Partners, 708 Third Ave., 28th Fl., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [8/119/15]

Notice of Qualification of Full Node Capital LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/31/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/27/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Bryan Reyhani, 200 Park Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10166. 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.

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Notice of Qualification of Leyton 93 LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/26/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/2/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o 152 W. 57th St., 19th Fl., NY, NY 10019, Attn: Scott Leyton.

DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/119/15]

Notice of Formation of STANDARD POLYCLINIC MANAGER LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/07/17.

Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Standard Property Company, Inc., 126 E. 56th St., 19th Fl., Ste. 1910, NY, NY 10022. 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. [8/11-9/15]

Notice of Qualification of NORTHSTAR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/27/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/27/16. 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, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [8/11-9/15]

PAGE 46 Notice of Formation of Westbound Kyd, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/10/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 205 Hudson St., Ste. #1002, NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Caroyln Rossip Malcolm, CRM Management, LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Music publishing and recording. [8/4-9/8]

Notice of Qualification of TV ONE, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/19/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/29/04. Princ. office of LLC: 4 New York Plaza, Ste. #500, NY, NY 10004. NYS fictitious name: TVONEMEDIA, LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with The Secy. of State of the State of DE, Corp. Dept., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [8/4-9/8]

Notice of Formation of S3 550 4TH AVE FUNDING LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/24/17. 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: 444 Madison Ave, Fl. 41, NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/4-9/8]

Notice of Formation of Throgs Neck Debt LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/17/17. 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: 225 Broadway, Fl. 32, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of BRP HEMPSTEAD, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/25/17. 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 Qualification of R&B BUILDING MAINTENANCE, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/30/17. Office location: New York County. LLCformed in Tennessee (TN) on 3/28/12. 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. TN address of LLC: 14665 Lebanon Rd, Ste C, Old Hickory, TN 37138. Cert. of Formation filed with TN Secy of State, 312 Rosa L. Parks Ave, FL. 6, Snodgrass Tower, Nashville, TN 37243.

The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/4-9/8]

Notice of Formation of East 182 Street Associates, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/24/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 902 Broadway, 13th Fl., NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/4-9/8]

Notice of Qualification of Ridgewood Briarcliff Owner, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/15/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/13/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, 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. [8/4-9/8]

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.

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The Jewish Voice 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. [7/28-9/1]

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. [7/28-9/1]

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]

AUGUST 18, 2017

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 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.

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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 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.

[8/18-9/22]

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. [7/21-8/25]

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.

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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.

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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. [7/218/25]

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 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. [7/21-8/25]

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]

AUGUST 18, 2017 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. [7/148/18]

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. [7/148/18]

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.

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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 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 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]

The Jewish Voice 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.

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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.

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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.

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PAGE 47 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.

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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

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]

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. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of formation of 3015 RICHMOND TERRACE LLC. Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY)

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]

on 08/14/2017. Office located in Richmond county. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: The LLC, 3015 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10303. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [8/189/22].

Notice of Qualification of 550 Vanderbilt 917 LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/9/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/8/17. 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, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes. [8/18-9/22]

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

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. [7/78/11]

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]

TEL:

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

Summer Address: 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. [7/78/11]

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.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY LAND FOR SALE IN LAKEWOOD, NJ.

INVESTMENT PROPERTY

RE-OPENING 6 OLD OIL

On Prospect St. 4.02 acres. $4,750,000. Also, 8.46 acres, $10 million.

Restaurant- Bar Privately owned 70 years Dining Room, Bar & Deck- Seating 150 With two rental apts- Turnkey GREAT LOCATION! Vicinity of the Poconos. $400,000.

WELLS IN WEST TEXAS.

Call 848-245-6822 omnipropertynj@gmail.com

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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

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

Call Lou 570-829-7768 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

9000

MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE LAND FOR SALE. 1.28 Acres on a quiet street. Close to Route 1. $150,000.

434-401-8686 LM0922 STAND-ALONE BUILDING. Deli/ Convenience Store; Warwick, NY/ NNJ Area. New Equipment, Dock on Lake. Large/ scenic views of property for picnicking and lake activities, kitchen, sandwich station, storage, seating, parking for 25, highvolume turnpike, bikers, hikers, travelers. Email: patriotsdeli@ gmail.com or Cell 201-538-7412 LM0901

THRIVING CLOTHING BOUTIQUE IN GREENPORT ON LONG ISLAND’S NORTH FORK. Busy & Profitable All Year Round Since 1992. Good Price & Terms. Call Patrick 631-744-9100 LM0901 PATCHOGUE VILLAGE. Great Opportunity for Builders.

Building for Sale, approx 6,000 sq ft. Across from LIRR. $1 Million, Owner Financing Possible. Tenants with Leases or You Can Renovate!

Call 631-235-5240 LM0721

Each well produced approx 1 million barrels of oil.

30-40% annual return is realistic.

More information at www.MincOil.com or Call Mark at 915-921-7255

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AIRCRAFT SERVICES

HARD MONEY LOANS

Private jet services-Pesach.

NY-Israel.$26K.RT per seat.NYFL $5700RT per seat. Limited seats. 388-784-1221

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

LM0908

9010

Invest small, with a minimum investment of $7,500 for a big return!! With a Legal Legitimate Investment company. For more information or appointment call: 212-256-1158 extension 103 This offering is only for accredited investors under Regulation D under Rule 506 (c) of the Securities Act Of 1993. The Company shall take reasonable steps to verify the accredited investor status before making Any offer and sale. Any accredited investor that does not provide the information necessary to the company To satisfy the verification requirement will not be deemed an accredited investor and may not participate in the offering.

AVAILABLE FOR INVESTORS. 60% LTV. Call 718-825-4086

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RESTAURANTS FOR SALE (2).

RIDGEFIELD, CT. Gorgeous restaurant, turn-key operation on Main St. $300K. Also, PIZZERIA in BROOKFIELD, CT in very busy shopping center. Next to Raymour Flanagan. $150K. Call Owner 914-906-1084

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

TO ADVERTISE IN THE JEWISH VOICE CALL: 800-998-0885

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JOBS & SERVICES D & H CLEANING SERVICES AND REPAIRS LLC. Our services include repairs, renovations, maid service, interior cleaning, event clean up, and commercial cleaning. Phone: 914-227-0058 Email: ezardclarke@aol.com

BROADWAY COMPUTERS. 516-654-9210 We do it all from training to repairs. Learn to use PC’s & Gadgets. Our location or yours. Desktop, Laptop/ PC/ Mac Services, Repairs, Upgrades, Virus Removal, Maintenance & Control Wireless Networking Laptop Screens Repairs, New & Refurbished PC’s & Laptops.

Starting at $199. We Repairs TV’s.

Call Us @ 516-259-1810 Visit Us At 588 Broadway, Massapequa

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NURSING ASSISTANT. Days,

9020

LIVE-IN 7 DAYS.

Evenings or Overnights. Speaks

Must drive. Care for elderly, light cleaning & shopping.

732-620-4546

English. Car Available. Excellent

LM0901

Job Opportunity $13.20 per hour!

References.

If you currently care for your relatives or friends who have

Call 215-840-0346

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LM0908

LM1117

HELP WANTED

Medicaid, you may be eligible

SALESPEOPLE WANTED. To work at The Jewish Voice newspaper. Brooklyn location. Call Stuart Katz 718998-7600 Ext. 19 AREA CLAIMS WRITER AND PROPERTY INSPECTORS. Interviewing now. Excellent income, pt/ ft flexible hours.

Training provided.

732-801-1532 acwinspector@gmail.com

to start working for them as a Personal Assistant. No

Experienced & Certified Home Health Aide available 5-6 days

Certificates needed. Phone:

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VALET PARKING

per week, live-in or live-out. Full

ATTENDANTS

time. Over 16 years experience in

*Applicants should be clean

NEEDED- MONTAUK.

elder care. Excellent references.

need to be able to drive stick shift and have Compensation $8.00/ hour plus excellent gratuities.*

Call 347-619-9290

Contact Nick 516-770- 1873 LM0915

DO YOU LOVE SOCIAL MEDIA? Women’s Fashion Retailer Seeking Social Media Director.

Please Call 917-913-0000 LM0811

AIDE/ COMPANION. PT/ FT. Experienced Aide in all aspects of care seeks job caring for the elderly.

Excellent references and NYS driver’s license.

914-751-5972 LM0728 DAMEN COMPANION CARE. Homecare that you can trust for the care of your loved ones. 10 years experience.

Hourly, live-in or live-out.

Also, Hiring Caregivers. Call Us Today 631-747-6167 or 1-888-612-1822 LM0721

PETS

9043

MANAGER FOR LEGAL NOTICE DEPARTMENT WANTED! To work at The Jewish Voice newspaper. Brooklyn location. Call Stuart Katz

JOE: 347-215-1960

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or email nvitanza1@optonline. net LM0818

JB CARPENTRY, ELECTRIC, PLUMBING, PAINTING, FLOORING, DECKS & KITCHEN/ BATHROOM REMODELING. RESPONSIBLE & REASONABLE. ALL JOBS WELCOME!

I am looking for Live-In or Live-Out CNA position. I’m available 5 days per week.

Excellent references from hospital, nursing home & private. Call 516-466-3923

cut, outgoing personality,

clean drivers license.

English speaking.

HEALTH / SOCIAL SERVICES 9930

347-462-2610 or 347-5656200

718-998-7600 Ext. 19

WANTED: LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THAT WILL ENRICH YOUR LIFE? Join our Sept. 2017 or Jan. 2018 Volunteer Puppy Raiser Class.

Application on website.

Putnam Service Dogs.

917-449-5359, info@putnamservicedogs.org

LOST 3 YEAR OLD GRAY SIAMESE CAT. Vicinity of Ridgebury Rd./ Shadow Lake Rd, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Missing since 6/5. His name is Mr. Kai. Reward $1,000.

Call 203-743-9434 LM0804

NUTRITIONIST

9965

Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Bonnie Budman LCSW Winter Special, 3 one hour sessions for $127.

Call 516-967-0675

TUTORING

9970

**ALL Subjects 1-on-1 Tutor** Grades K-12, Specialize in Math & Essay writing.

Intensive Prep for Specialized Science High School Entrance Exam, SAT, & HS Regents Exam available. Email: ALL. As.Tutor.NYC@gmail.com

HANDYMAN SERVICES

9960

HANDYMAN SERVICES, OWNER OPERATOR. Licensed & insured. Power washing, painting, carpentry, builtins, decks, kitchens & baths, doors & windows, tiling, sheetrock & taping, organizing & cleanups.

Westchester only. Call Chris 914-337-8249 LM0922

HOME IMPROVEMENT

9950

FALLSBURG CONSTRUCTION, CORP. Roofing, Decking, Siding, Renovations, Flooring & Ceramic Tiles. Fully Insured. Free Estimates.

845-866-4643 LM0922 2 MARIO’S. Stoops, Blue Stone, Brickwork, Pavers & Repairs. Commercial & Residential. CALL ME LAST! 516-984-9943 LM0922

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 Fox- Owner/ Operator 718-227-5001 Email: scott@ yougotbugscom Website: www.yougotbugs.com

PERSONALS

9025

ATTRACTIVE JEWISH FEMALE, 70, Widowed, Retired Math Teacher, Seeks Jewish Male, Widower, 67-75, College-Educated, for a Long Term Relationship.

Call 718-763-8919 LM0915 WHITE MALE, 5’10”, healthy, financially stable, nonsmoker, college degree, never married, nice guy, living in Staten Island seeking professional, educated white woman between 37-47 for marriage, to have a family & to relocate to Hudson Valley area of NY. For serious inquiries , contact Fred 908463-7076 LM0811

HELP OFFERED

9035

PRIVATE CHEF/ SHIATSU. 25 years experience specializing in natural wellness cuisine and fine dining. Available immediately. Need livein position. Excellent references. Hamptons & Greenwich, CT only. 781856-0359 robertpdonahue@ icloud.com LM0707

TO ADVERTISE IN THE JEWISH VOICE CALL: 800-998-0885

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REAL ESTATE

JOBS & SERVICES Retired California Highway Patrol/ Part Time Police Officer looking to house sit in exchange for room/ salary for August. 39 years experience and excellent references.

-916-342-0625

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FOR SALE

9040

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

PIANO FOR SALE. Baldwin Walnut Finish. Mint Condition.

Table Top Piano with Seat. $1,250 or best offer.

914-243-0620 LM0901 New Guinea and African Art, selling personal collection, all prices considered.

917-374-4038

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Serious Singers, Groups needed for Record Deal and Possible Tour. Call Jack 516-897-9706 LM0825

AUTOMOTIVE

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)

9050

HARLEY 2001 Road King Excel Xtras 6k. $8,500.

516-825-5308 LM0721

NISSAN MAXIMA 2001. New condition in/ out, 108,000 miles, 5 speed,full power, new parts, 2nd owner. $2,500 or best offer.

914-258-9432 LM0818

SWIMMING POOLS

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-

$1.38 million. Galaxy Fortune Realty. Call Agent Betty Yee 917-337-3336

LM0901

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES FOR RENT BROOKLYN

NEW YORK STATE 7050 PEEKSKILL LAWYER’S OFFICE FOR RENT. Busy intersection, Artist District. No smoking, no pets. 914-739-2600 LM0922 PEEKSKILL COMMERCIAL PARKING SPACE AVAILABLE. Located at 1814 Crompond Rd, Route 202. For more information, Call 914-469-9178 LM0902

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

COMMERCIAL / PROPERTIES FOR SALE NEW YORK STATE

reconfiguration. 347-661-7300

QUEENS

3050

RICHMOND HILL OFFICE FOR RENT. Corner space. Near courthouse, JFK Airport &

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

hospital. Suit to fit. $1,600 per month includes all except for electric. Leave message 9AM-

EXTRAORDINARY FEATURES, $1,899,999.

DEBBIE 201-925-7667 OR WWW.811COLONIAL ROADFRANKLINLAKES.COM LM0113

5PM at 917-446-1658 LM0819

BRONX

4050

3060 EAST TREMONT AVE:

Well-Established Allstate

STORE FOR RENT. Top retail

Agency For Sale. Marine Park

traffic, 3000sf, can be divided.

location, high pedestrian

area. Agent wants to retire.

For details: Rafi- 718-364-

Must be able to obtain your

347-495-0614

1400 or

LM0825

OUT OF STATE

8060

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

own financing & currently be .in the insurance business Call 917-301-2477

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

detached garage. Asking

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FRANKLIN LAKES. GATED RETREAT ON 3 PRIVATE ACRES, ELEVATOR, LAVISH GOURMET KITCHEN,

STATEN ISLAND

LM0703

TO ADVERTISE IN THE JEWISH VOICE CALL: 800-998-0885

AUGUST 18, 2017

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REAL ESTATE WOODBURY/ Green's Assoc. Condo for Sale or Rent.

Huge MBR, plenty of WIC's, spacious 3BR, 2.5 baths/ updated granite, new appliances/ water heater, deck, full fin basement, 2 car garage. $760k's. 609-339-1253

THROGS NECK TRANQUILITY. Steps from City Island Sound & Pelham Park. 2 family (2,100 sq ft total.) Patio, backyard, shed.

Great investment property. $475,000. By appt only. Call Joanne at Hidalgo & Sons R.E. 917-232-8616 LM0915

JERSEY CITY. Builder’s

STATEN ISLAND

5010

OUT OF STATE

8030

NANUET. Unfurnished Home. 3 bedrooms, 2baths, Just Painted. Family Room, deck, shed, appliances. $2,950/ month. Call Owner 845-623-2224/ 845-598-5345 LM0915

BRONX

4040

Dream! Exclusive, residential East of Garfield Ave. Asking $225,000. Hurry! Won’t last!

Call Grisell Romero at Exit

MARINERS HARBOR. 2BR apt.

Completely Renovated with Waterview. 7 Minutes from the

Preferred Realty 201-653-

Ferry. $1,550/ Month. 1 Month

3948 LM0902

Sec. + 1 Month Rent + 1 Month Broker Fee. Contact Agent

APARTMENTS FOR RENT BROOKLYN

1010

Marisol Ortiz 347-678-3386 LM0922

LONG ISLAND

6010

AVE U BETWEEN EAST 2ND

SAG HARBOR. 5 BEDROOMS,

& 3RD STREET. Second floor,

3.5 BATHS, NEW SALT GUNITE

private house. 2BR, 1 bath, newly renovated kitchen. Near

POOL. Available 8/6-9/2

transportation & shopping.

weekly ($6k-$8k, depends on

$2,100 including utilities. Call

week.) Contact 917-509-6189

Owner 917-865-6465

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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

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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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HOUSES FOR SALE BROOKLYN

1040

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 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

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

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6040

MERRICK S. Hi Ranch, 2.5 New Baths, updated granite kitchen, 4BR, Luxurious IGP, Stone Gas Fireplace, SD25. $669K. 516-379-6608 LM0901 Seeking Top L.I. Realtors ready to make a deal on a good investment property.

Investor seeking to buy below market. Bonus. Call 516-6933995 LM0804

NY STATE HOUSE FOR RENT

7030

CHESTNUT RIDGE. 3BR Home for Rent. Month to Month on private road. $3,500/ month.

Includes utilities. Available September 1st.

Call 914-906-1761 LM0922

7040 OLIVE-BRIDGE, NY. 2BR Cottage, ¼ acre. Near ski area. $90,000 or best offer.

845-897-9555 LM0915

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 walk-in) CA closets, access to clubhse & pool. Beautifully landscaped-woods behind All-glass sunroom. $279,900. See Zillow for addl pics.914.841.3237

Owner has 6.5 rooms duplex.

Semi attached 1 family

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

EAST QUOGUE. 5BR, 3.5 baths.

Large pool, hot-tub, A/C, secluded, gated.

8/289/4, $8,000. 917-941-8117 Jsmitheq@aol.com

6.5 room 3 Bedrooms,

deck. 4 room. 2 bedrooms Rental

2 Bath duplex. Full finished

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basement. Parking..ASKING

BEST SELLER #1 Properties 718.646-6900

FOR SALE • ORLANDO VICINITY

ASKING $625K

BY OWNER 443-875-9204

Mill Basin Exclusive:

parking for 2 cars, yard and

Catskill Mt./Hudson Valley Home for Sale 4 bedroom Home In-Law Apart.

Office Suite 2 1/2 hrs from NYC Flexible Space add. land avail suitable for Family Compound www.24joelmaustin.com 518 622-9647 LM1002

NEW YORK STATE

2 Family Attached BRICK. 3 bedrroms, 3 baths, private

PARADISE IN PEEKSKILL! FOR SALE BY OWNER. 2 Family Duplex Home with Decks Overlooking Waterfall.

District 3 Schools. Dead-end Street. Large Parking Area. Low Taxes. No Brokers. $550,000 or best offer. 914-414-2848

782145

lot is located on a quiet street

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

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$569,000

JS511

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REAL ESTATE OUT OF STATE

8040

FLORIDA

MOUNT ARARAT. East Farmingdale. Section 68,

POCONO MOUNTAINS COZY LOG CABIN FOR SALE IN MASTHOPE COMMUNITY

Range D, Plot 1, 2, 3 & 4. Great location. Photos available. $24,000 for all 4 graves. Call 516-241-0915

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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

POMPANO BEACH FL - Atlantic Blvd, Briny Ave.

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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.

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

9080

Call 917-445-5293 or 718-894-7728

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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

PLOTS FOR SALE 9065 WELLWOOD. 16 Plots. $3,500 each negotiable.

631-246-9240 LM0922

ROSEHILL CEMETERY. Outdoor Crypt. In Garden of Peace.

Section C, Level 6, Crypt 23F. Room for 2 coffins & urn. Valued at $11,500. Asking $10,000 or best offer. Call 914-548-4470

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WASHINGTON MEMORIAL PARK. Middle Island. Jewish Section. 5 plots, $1,500 each.

Call 516-902-9530 LM0825

ROSEHILL PARK. Putnam Valley. 2 Crypts in Heritage Gardens. Level 1. Value $9,980 each. Asking $7,000 each or best offer. Florida # 561-706-0567

PINELAWN GARDEN OF PSALMS. 1 Plot/2, Bronze Plaques. $6,000.

631-834-8800 LM0922 PINELAWN Garden of Normandie. 1 Plot for 2. $5,600. 631-220-4887 LM0901

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