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Taxpayers Spending Millions to Fund de Blasio’s ‘Special Assistants’ as ‘Hizzoner’ Bashes Them

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over the past fiscal year has increased spending on his "special assistants" by $4.6 million, expanding their ranks by 13 percent and handing out raises to those already on staff. These employees, who are vaguely titled as aides and whose salaries are taxpayer-funded, make up 40 percent of de Blasio's staff.

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ew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over the past fiscal year has increased spending on his "special assistants" by $4.6 million, expanding their ranks by 13 percent and handing out raises to those already on staff. These employees, who are vaguely titled as aides and whose salaries are taxpayer-funded, make up 40 percent of de Blasio's staff, the New York Post reported Sunday night. His staff 's collective salaries were bumped by 25 percent, up to $23.3 million, from fiscal year 2016, according to payroll records. Four members of his staff raked in

more than $200,000 each, while those paid more than $100,000 each jumped to 84 individuals, up about 30 percent. De Blasio had four of his special assistants transferred to the Department of Veterans Services, off-loading around $540,000 from the Mayor's Office. "When you want to give someone a big raise, it's easier if you say they're doing a different job," a former city official told the Post. The source said that de Blasio has greater flexibility to increase salaries, funded by taxpayer money, for aides by assigning them the title "special assistant." One City Hall spokesman said the use of this title gives the de Blasio administration "more flexibility in de-

manding varied types of work from senior officials." Chief of staff Kevin O'Brien is one of de Blasio's highest paid special assistants; his annual salary increased from $175,000 to $220,652 since fiscal year 2016.

""I'm not raising this again: fix it, or I will [have] no choice but to find a way to penalize people. Not my preference, but I won't have my instructions ignored" – Bill deBlasio The Post first revealed last year that de Blasio increased the number of special assistants by 140 percent

compared to his predecessor, former Mayor Mike Bloomberg; de Blasio responded by ignoring a Post reporter at a news conference and calling the paper a "right-wing rag." "It just shows a complete disregard for the taxpayers of the city and it also displays his mismanagement—because we're not even getting results," likely Republican challenger Nicole Malliotakis said of de Blasio's staff salaries. On August 9, the Washington Free Beacon reported that de Blasio treated his staffers poorly and often bullied them with harsh threats if they did not meet his demands, according to newly revealed emails. "What do I need to get you guys to follow a direct order? Do you need to

experience consequences?" he threatened in one 2015 email, according to the New York Post. "I'm not raising this again: fix it, or I will [have] no choice but to find a way to penalize people. Not my preference, but I won't have my instructions ignored," he added. The emails show de Blasio blowing up at nearly a dozen staffers for "failing to make sure phonetic versions of challenging words were included in his speeches and talking points," according to the Post. "This is literally the 100th time I am reminding you all that phonetic spellings require one syllable to be capi-

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De Blasio Potentially Running in 2020 Presidential Election By: Jack Heretik

De Blasio recently received $2.57 million in city funds for matching for his reelection campaign. What he doesn't use in his mayoral run, he can use in a presidential run. Post reporter Richard Johnson has said that DeBlasio, 56, will claim that he’s the rightful standard bearer for the progressive wing of the Democratic party. An issue that could arise for

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MTA To Remake Subway Tiles Resembling Confederate Flags By: Menachem Rephun

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emocratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is being rumored as a potential 2020 presidential election candidate. According to Democratic operatives, de Blasio believes he will easily win reelection later in 2017 and this has him prompting to look at what he could run for afterwards, Page Six at the NYP reports. According to the Post report, the mayor of the Big Apple is constructing his own exploratory mission and “spreading rumors that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are too old to be considered viable candidates for the presidency.

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been making moves that could lead to his own run for the White House

de Blasio are other top New York Democratic politicians, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, all who have been making moves that could lead to their own run for the White House. The Post also reports that Schneiderman has powerful friends in Hollywood and famous TV producer Norman Lear has hosted fundraisers for him. De Blasio recently received $2.57 million in city funds for matching for his reelection campaign. What he doesn't use in his mayoral run, he can use in

a presidential run. One political watcher said that the 2020 election is already de Blasio's primary focus. "De Blasio is putting all his chips on the 2020 race," the watcher said. "That’s why, instead of staying in the city to comfort the children of assassinated police officer Miosotis Familia, he jetted to Germany to join the anti-Trump rioters who were smashing store windows." “He thinks he’s the inheritor of the Warren and Sanders legacy,” said a Democratic power broker, “but no one told Warren and Sanders they were dead.” (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON)

n light of the controversy surrounding Confederate statues after the aftermath of last week’s violence in Charlottesville, the Manhattan Transit Authority (MTA) will be remaking tiles in the Times Square subway station which resemble Confederate flags. According to a NY Post last week, the MTA has denied that the tiles, which have been part of the Times Square station for over 90s, were intended as Confederate flag, or that they honor former NY Times owner and Southerner Adolph Ochs, as Civil War historian Dr. David Jackowe claims. “These are not Confederate flags,” MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said, according to the Post. “It is a design based on geometric forms that represent the ‘Crossroads of the World’ and to avoid absolutely any confusion, we will modify them to make that absolutely crystal clear.” The events in Charlottesville have sparked a renewed debate about statues memorializing an ignominious part of America’s past. The neo-Nazi rally, which culminated in a white supremacist plowing his vehicle into a crowd of protesters, prompted a backlash against Confederate landmarks, with NY Governor

In light of the controversy surrounding Confederate statues after the aftermath of last week’s violence in Charlottesville, the Manhattan Transit Authority (MTA) will be remaking tiles in the Times Square subway station which resemble Confederate flags.

Andrew Cuomo calling on the U.S. Army to rename two streets named after General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and General Robert E. Lee. “Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson will be removed from the CUNY hall of great Americans because New York stands against racism,” Cuomo wrote in a tweet. “There are many great Americans, many of them New Yorkers worthy of a spot in this great hall. These two confederates are not among them.” The Army has not acceded to Cuomo’s request, as the Washington Post noted, saying the streets were named in the

spirit of reconciliation, and do not represent any particular ideology. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has advocated removing all statues and public art in New York City identified as “symbols of hate.” Last week, a Confederate statue in North Carolina was torn down by protesters seeking to “smash white supremacy.” “When I see a Confederate statue in downtown Durham, or really anywhere, it fills me with a lot of rage and frustration,” Loan Tran, an organizer of the protest, said, according to CBS North Carolina. See MTA To Remake Subway , page 36

Prominent NYC Rabbi Slams Trump Over Charlottesville Comments By: A7 Staff

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rominent New York Rabbi Haskel Lookstein criticized President Donald Trump’s response to the violent white supremacist and Neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville, Va, two weeks ago Rabbi Lookstein, who oversaw the conversion to Judaism of the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, weighed in on the issue Wednesday along with other rabbis at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, a prominent modern Orthodox synagogue in Manhattan. “We are appalled by this resurgence of bigotry and anti-Semitism, and the renewed vigor of the neo-Nazis, KKK, and alt-right,” the rabbis wrote in a letter to members of the synagogue and its affiliated Ramaz School. “While we avoid politics, we are deeply troubled by the moral equivalency and equivocation President Trump has offered in his response to this act of violence. “We pray that our country heeds the voices of tolerance, and stays true to its vision of human rights and civil rights.” Far-right protestors converged on Charlottesville in defense of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and brawled with counter protestors. Some of the protestors carried Nazi and Confederate flags, gave Nazi salutes and expressed anti-Se-

Prominent New York Rabbi Haskel Lookstein (pictured above) criticized President Donald Trump’s response to the violent white supremacist and Neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville, Va, two weeks ago

mitic and racist views. After police broke up the rally, a white supremacist, James Fields, rammed his car into a crowd of the counter protesters, killing one woman and injuring at least 19. Two police officers also died when their helicopter crashed while monitoring the rally. US President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the deadly car ramming attack but excoriated both the left and the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville “Racism is evil," Trump said. “And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists

and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans." "The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly car attack that killed one innocent American and wounded 20 others," the president declared. "To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend's racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered." However, on Tuesday the president said that "both sides," including the alt-right and the alt-left, were to blame for the violence at the rally. Trump’s comments were widely criticized, including by See Prominent NYC Rabbi , page 36

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Sentencing of Disgraced Former Congressman Anthony Weiner Postponed By: Yosef Delatitsky

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he sentencing of Anthony Weiner, the 52-yearold former NYC Congressman who fell from grace after a much-publicized sexting scandal, was postponed last Friday by a Manhattan judge. According to a NY Post report, Weiner’s sentencing was delayed at the request of his lawyers, who asked that federal Judge Denise Cole postpone their client’s sentencing until Oct. 6. Cole partially complied, holding the sentencing (initially scheduled for September 8) off until September 25. On May 19, Weiner confessed to sending obscene material to a teenage girl, a scandal which ruined his career, reputation, and marriage to his wife Huma

Abedin, who filed for divorce following Weiner’s admission of guilt. In a report, News 12 Westchester said Weiner’s legal team have stated they need additional time to prepare a sentencing recommendation that suits Weiner’s ongoing treatment. In addition to his legal woes, Weiner is currently paying a heavy price for his actions in other ways. “Nobody speaks to him. He is truly ostracized,” a source cited by Page Six.com said. “People won’t even get on the elevator with him.” In his confession earlier this year, Weiner expressed contrition for his actions, saying he had no excuse for his behavior. “I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse,” he said during a May appearance in Federal

to family and friends, and destroyed my life’s dream of public service. And yet I remained in denial even as the world around me fell apart.” According to a Washington Post report at the time, Weiner’s attorney, Arlo Devlin-Brown, said his client had “apologized, offered no excuses, and made a commitment to make amends.” Devlin-Brown also said he believed Weiner had accepted “full responsibility for the inappropriate, sexually explicit communications he engaged in early last year.” The sentencing of Anthony Weiner, the 52-year-old former NYC Weiner resigned in 2011 after Congressman who fell from grace after a much-publicized sending an explicit photo to a sexting scandal, was postponed last Friday by a Manhattan minor via Twitter (usingh his judge. Twitter account accidentally). Court. “I apologize to everyone In an emotional plea state- Weiner also confessed to engagI have hurt. I apologize to the ment in May, Weiner acknowl- ing in similar behavior with at teenage girl, whom I mistreated edged that his “destructive im- least six other women, a fact he so badly.” pulses brought great devastation confessed to in 2011.

Altice Eyes NY Based Charter Communications for Acquisition By: Asher Schlesinger

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ltice, a multi-national telecoms company based in the Netherlands, is the latest company hoping to acquire Charter Communications, the New York-based telecom company which purchased Time Warner Cable for $60 billion last year. According to a NY Post report this month, Sprint owner SoftBank is also interested in the deal, along with Verizon, though the latter has not yet confirmed it is moving forward. Altice has also not made any moves as of yet, the Post said it is in the preliminary stages of the Charter Communications acquisition. The Charter deal could reach $200 billion, as the company is $60 billion and is offering a purchase price that could surpass $500 a share. According to the Post, Liberty Media chairman John Malone believes Charter would be better off without the acquisition,

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ayoral candidate Sal Albanese called for a piedà-terre tax, saying that wealthy absentee property owners should pay two or three times more in property taxes. “I’m proposing a pied-aterre tax, which would tax foreign investors who park their money in luxury real estate all over the city,” Albanese said. “I think we need to tax them and then direct that revenue into affordable housing — to build real affordable housing.” He said overseas investors own15% of the city’s luxury housing, leaving them unoccupied. Such a tax could bring

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Altice, a multi-national telecoms company based in the Netherlands, is the latest company hoping to acquire Charter Communications, the New York-based telecom company which purchased Time Warner Cable for $60 billion last year.

though some say a three-way bidding war would be beneficial to Malone, as Liberty Media is Charter’s biggest shareholder. Telecom analyst Craig Moffett told the Post that the giants competing for control of Charter cannot offer a bid credible enough to be more attractive than his go-it-alone approach.

“None of the rumored acquirers – Verizon, SoftBank, or Altice – has the balance sheet to mount a credible bid that’s more attractive to Malone than his own go-it-alone strategy,” Moffett said, according to the news outlet. At the same time, Moffett said he is sure it “is very flattering to

Liberty Media chairman John Malone believes Charter would be better off without the acquisition, though some say a threeway bidding war would be beneficial to Malone, as Liberty Media is Charter’s biggest shareholder.

Charter to be the apple of so many companies’ eyes.” According to Bloomberg, Charter’s shares rose by at least 4.9 percent after CNBC reported Altice’s interest in the acquisition. “We of course will listen to all and any offers that come in and judge them on their merit

and appeal,” Liberty Broadband chairman Greg Maffei said this month, according to Bloomberg. “Any deal that would be appealing for us and other Charter shareholders would have to have real value and show real capabilities that are beyond what we think is a very well-positioned company.”

Mayoral Hopeful Sal Albanese Calls for Pied-a-Tierre Tax on Property Owners By: Hadassa Kalatizadeh

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billions of dollars in revenue to the city, he said. “No New York City taxpayer will be on the hook,” said Albanese. “No city resident will pay an extra dime in taxes. It will be foreign investors.” This isn’t a new idea. In 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio considered a similar proposal by State Senator Brad Hoylman, as per The Real Deal. Senate Republicans opposed the proposal and the tax was not put into action. The real estate industry has been adamant that increasing taxes for pied-à-terre owners would have a devastating effect on the luxury market and buyer sentiment. Albanese took a shot at the incumbent Mayor, remarking “They own Bill de Blasio, big real estate does.”

Mayoral candidate Sal Albanese called for a pied-à-terre tax, saying that wealthy absentee property owners should pay two or three times more in property taxes. “I’m proposing a pieda-terre tax, which would tax foreign investors who park their money in luxury real estate all over the city,” Albanese said.

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ute Democratic mayoral debate with Sal Albanese versus Mayor de Blasio. As the only Democratic challenger going up against Mayor Bill de Blasio, Albanese has not yet gotten much attention or funding. The Italian born 67-year-old, has a BA in Education from York College, and an M.A. in health from NYU. He spent 11 years as a public school teacher. He later earned a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. For 15 years, from1983 to 1998, he served as a NYC Councilman, representing Bay Ridge and other neighborhoods in southwest Brooklyn. This is his fourth time running for mayor. He also ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1992, and state Assembly in 1978.

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NYC Real Estate Broker Ohad Fisherman Parent Company of Poland Spring Water Representing Model Sofia Richie Faces Suit On False Advertising Charges By: Yehuda Sagan

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had Fisherman, a New York-based Israeli real estate broker with Douglas Elliman, will be representing Sofia Richie, the daughter of singer Lionel Richie, as she relocates to a SoHo apartment at One Vandam (180 Avenue of the Americas). According to a NY Post report this month, Richie’s new two-bedroom apartment is 1,557 square feet, and is being rented for less than its steep monthly asking price of $13,500. The apartment also reportedly features a walk-in closet, a gymnasium, a private garage, and a resident’s lounge, along with an entry gallery, white oak floors, and an open chef ’s kitchen. Fisherman himself is a colorful character, known as the “hummus hunk” for his side business delivering high-quality, authentic Israeli hummus to New York’s elite. In a 2016 report, Tablet wrote that Fisherman imported his family’s secret recipe from Israel to deliver authentic hummus that is almost impossible to find anywhere else. As a hummus connoisseur, Fisherman is uniquely qualified, given that his family owns Tel Aviv’s Mifgash Hasteak restaurant, known for creating some

Ohad Fisherman, a New York-based Israeli real estate broker with Douglas Elliman, will be representing Sofia Richie, the daughter of singer Lionel Richie, as she relocates to a SoHo apartment at One Vandam (180 Avenue of the Americas).

of Tel Aviv’s best hummus for over 40 years. According to a 2016 NY Post report, Fisherman delivers over 500 tubs of hummus, priced at $10 a piece. The hefty price tag is worth it, though, according to those who have sampled the popular Israeli appetizer. “As a longtime hummus fan and a bit of a hummus snob, I can easily confirm that hummus Joonam is the best hummus in New York City,” New York Post editor David Kaufman said last year, according to the Times of Israel. “Without reservation. It’s pricey for sure. But totally worth it. Dense, yet light. Flavor packed and just straight up

yummy.” As for Fisherman himself, he was blunt in his assessment of Israeli hummus’ Americanized counterpart. “American hummus doesn’t even taste like hummus,” Fisherman said in July 2016. “It has too many spices and its texture is all wrong. It’s too heavy. You can’t even eat it without bread.” Fisherman also explained the origin of his brand’s name, Hummus Joonam. “Joonam is a Farsi word,” Fisherman told Times of Israel. “It’s my nickname. It’s what a good friend of my dad’s used to call me when I was a boy. It means ‘my life.’”

Queens Museum Does “About Face” on Refusal of Israeli Mission’s UN Event By Ilana Siyance

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he Queens Museum in Corona has reconsidered its refusal to rent out space to the Israeli Mission, for an event honoring the UN’s recognition of an Israeli state. In this Flushing locality, before it was a museum, 70 years ago, the United Nations met to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. In June, the museum agreed to reserve the hall for the reenactment event. Then the museum’s executive director, Laura Raicovich, told the group that the museum decided not to host the “political event” due to museum policy. The Mission had blamed the refusal on Raicovich’s connection to the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement that targets Israel. Raicovich edited a book entitled "Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency and Cultural Production," which includes a section on the BDS movement. "It is unacceptable for BDS activists to single out Israel and ban our event,” said Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the UN. “I

"Personally, I do not see how this project is ‘political.’ How is commemorating a major world event that took place in Queens and the UN’s establishment of one of America’s closest allies political?”

The Queens Museum in Corona has reconsidered its refusal to rent out space to the Israeli Mission, for an event honoring the UN’s recognition of an Israeli state. In this Flushing locality, before it was a museum, 70 years ago, the United Nations met to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

call on the Board of Directors of the Queens Museum to dismiss Ms. Raicovich from her position immediately and honor their commitment to hold this important event.” In a joint statement, Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz (D-Queens) and Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Queens) said the museum’s actions were “a disgrace and a violation of law.” “It is a clear example of anti-Semitism, and we will not stand for it. We demand the Queens Museum board reinstate this important ceremony,” they continued. They called for the city’s Human Rights Commission to investigate, and for the Queens museum to fire Raicovich. Controller Scott

Stringer also spoke up commenting that the reenactment should take place where the vote did. "At a time when we literally have neo-Nazis marching in American streets, when bigotry is on the rise, the Queens Museum has sent a disappointing message to New York City and the world,” he said. Last Wednesday, the Queens Museum announced that it will now proceed with an event commemorating the 1947 UN vote. According to a report on the Politico web site, Vyoma Venkatataman, a spokeswoman for the museum had confirmed that it had reconsidered its position. See Queens Museum Does , page 36

class-action lawsuit filed in Connecticut federal court last Tuesday has charged Nestle Waters, the parent company of Poland Spring Water, with false advertising for the labeling on its bottles. According to a NY Post report, the lawsuit disputed Poland Spring’s evergreen labels claiming that the bottles contain “100 percent natural spring water.” The lawsuit claims that, contrary to the label, Nestle Waters North America is actually bottling common groundwater. The lawsuit is not the first to be brought against Poland Springs over related claims. A 2003 lawsuit alleged that Poland Springs was not producing pure spring water from Maine, as it claimed to be. That lawsuit was eventually settled by Nestle Waters. On its official website, Poland Spring assures consumers it has “numerous quality controls in place to ensure the quality and integrity of our spring water products,” including verified testing conducted on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis, along with regulatory oversight and independent hydrogeological reports. The company also promises that “every bottle of Poland Spring® clearly identifies the location of its spring water sources, which are all located in Maine.

A class-action lawsuit filed in Connecticut federal court last Tuesday has charged Nestle Waters, the parent company of Poland Spring Water, with false advertising for the labeling on its bottles.

For more than 170 years, Poland Spring® has proudly delivered great tasting spring water from Maine to millions of people in the Northeast…today, we source our water from eight different natural springs in Maine. Having more than one source allows us to meet consumer demand while protecting all of our spring water sources for long-term sustainability.” This explanation has not appeased those filing the lawsuit, who accused Nestle Waters of perpetrating “a colossal fraud” against American consumers for the past 20 years, according to an excerpt from the lawsuit cited by USA Today. “To consumers, 'spring water' from a naturally occurring spring

signifies purity and high quality and commands a premium price compared to Defendant's nonspring drinking water products or filtered tap water," the lawsuit argued. “To illicitly capture that premium, Defendant, since it began selling the Poland Spring brand in 1993, has bottled common groundwater and illegally mislabeled it as '100% Natural Spring Water.” Nestle Waters is currently seeking to expand in Maine, and is hoping to pump at least 172 million gallons of water annually from a public district well in the town of Lincoln, according to USA Today. Depending on its outcome, the lawsuit could put a damper on those ambitions.

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NYC Tenants Sue Kushner Companies Claiming Rent Rule Violations

NY Creamery Seeks to Be the Next Ben & Jerry's

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n Tuesday, August 15, a lawsuit was filed in New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn against the Kushner Companies on the behalf of nine tenants. However, the suit says that there are over 100 former and current tenants that potentially have similar claims, and is therefore seeking class-action status. Kushner Companies is the family real estate firm of Jared Kushner, White House advisor and son-in-law to President Trump. A group of New York City tenants are suing the company for systematically violating the state’s rent regulations. If the company is found liable, claims could reach over $1million in rent overcharges for just one apartment building. According to The New York Times, “The nonprofit group that researched the building, Housing Rights Initiative, said it had found similar irregularities in more than 50 other Kushner Companies apartment buildings across New York City and is studying potential future litigation related to those properties. A Kushner Companies spokesman said the firm was reviewing the lawsuit. The complaint stems from the Kushner Companies’ 2014 purchase of a 48-unit apartment

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

building at 89 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights, one of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods. The building had previously been owned by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, then by Brooklyn Law School. Because those owners did not rent the apartments to the public, units previously covered by the state’s rent stabilization laws were temporarily exempt.” Any building that has at least six apartments and was constructed before 1974, as well as new buildings that qualify for certain property tax breaks, under New York State law must charge rents that’s abide by the rent stabilization laws of the state. The rents must be registered annually by the landlords and rents can only be increased

according to special formulas that the state and city set. According to the suit, tenants did not receive the required rent-stabilized leases from Kushner Companies after it bought the buildings and the temporary exemptions expired. The complaint that was filed by the Manhattan law firm Newman Ferrara, claims that the failure of the company to offer these leases was “willful and designed to remove the apartments” from the protections of the rent laws. The Housing Rights Initiative, which looks into rent fraud in rent-stabilized buildings, conducted a monthlong investigation that resulted in this suit. See NYC Tenants Sue Kushner , page 36

In August, NY Factory Activity Increases to Near 3-Year High By Rachel Shapiro

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his month factory activity in New York has climbed to highest level in almost three years. On Tuesday, August 15, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced that its Empire State manufacturing index skyrocketed from 9.8 in July to 25.2 in August. The reading for this month was the highest since September 2014. In August, hiring, shipments and new orders all picked up. Also, factories believe that over the next six months the improvements in conditions will continue. WRAL.com reports, “The index measures sentiment among

The Domino Sugar Refinery is a former refinery in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York City. (Photo Credit: Wikipedia)

firms in New York States, but is because it provides an early read closely followed by economists on factory output nationwide. American manufacturers have recovered from a slump in late 2015 and early 2016 caused by cutbacks in the energy industry and a strong dollar, which makes U.S. products costlier in foreign markets. The Commerce Department reported earlier this month that orders at U.S. factories shot up in June on strong demand for civilian aircraft. The Institute for Supply Management reported that American factories expanded in July for the 11th straight month.” Since July 2016, 66,000 workers have been hired by factories, which is the largest gain in The Empire State manufacturing index skyrocketed from 9.8 in 12-months for close to a year July to 25.2 in August. and a half.

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ll around New York, Ample Hills Creamery Inc. is famous for its incredibly delicious ice creams and scrumptious original flavors like Chocolate 3 ways and Salted Crack Caramel. Across the nation it has gained recognition for being the Star Wars film franchise’s official ice cream. Its limited-edition Dark Side and Light Side flavors sold 40,000 pints online when it was released alongside the new movie Ample Hills founders Jackie Cuscuna and Brian Smith. The Force Awakens. a side obsession. ‘I absolutely Since ice cream is so simple to love making ice cream,’ he says. make, the founders decided to “I absolutely love making He and his wife, Jackie Cus- do that in 1978. Adding all sorts cuna, fashioned their store on of creative chunks and swirls, ice cream” the small neighborhood shop they made a place for themCuscuna grew up visiting— selves in the history of artisanal Out of a single facility span- Eddie’s Sweet Shop in Queens, food. For around $326 million ning 900 square feet, Am- an ice cream parlor that’s been Unilever bought out Ben & Jerple Hills co-founder Brian open for 108 years. By the time ry’s in 2000. The brands annual Smith made all of that Star they’d opened their second revenue today is about $1.23 Wars ice cream. According to store, Smith had determined billion, which remains to be beBloomberg News, “Now, as he wanted to be the next Ben & low the now Nestlé owned Häahe works on new flavors for Jerry’s. In 2015, on a road trip gen-Dazs by $1 billion. In 2014, The Last Jedi, he’s opening a to Vermont with Cuscuna (now Unilever purchased another ar15,000-square-foot factory in Ample Hills CCO, or chief cul- tisan ice cream brand, Talenti, Brooklyn and a new flagship ture officer), he met the actu- whose revenue at that time was store in L.A., and gearing up for al Jerry Greenfield, who gave $120 million. Although Talenti ice cream’s biggest challenge: to them some key advice: Con- is admired by Smith, he doesn’t become the next Ben & Jerry’s. centrate on pints of ice cream, think it comes anywhere close Before he began selling scoops not stores. Virtually all Ben & to the level of Ample Hills. He said, “Their ice cream at the first Ample Hills in a Jerry’s stores are franchises.” Many businesses in the food is good, it’s perfectly fine, but residential Brooklyn neighborhood in 2011, Smith was a sci- industry how drawn on the Ben nothing makes it stand out othence-fiction screenwriter with & Jerry’s brand for inspiration. er than the container.”

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Manhattan Pop-Up Shops Might Be Here to Stay

Brooklyn Navy Yard Office Building Gets Ferry Dock

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hese days, with the softening real estate industry in Manhattan, stable long-term retail tenants are a scarcity. To compensate, the real estate industry is adapting to short-term tenancies, named licensing deals. Licensing deals allow tenants to use a space rather than own it for a specified time period. The method is being used to rent to pop-up shops in the city. A pop-up tenancy can last from a day up to a year. Both landlord and tenant can benefit because it avoids lengthy legal processes, and bypasses the usual 80- to 100-page lease for a curt version.

A pop-up tenancy can last from a day up to a year. Both landlord and tenant can benefit because it avoids lengthy legal processes, and bypasses the usual 80- to 100-page lease for a curt version

ing an empty store front, and as a bonus many pop-ups come with celebrity back-up, such as “Things change so Gwyneth Paltrow and Kanye drastically these days, West, which help endorse the it’s harder for retailers properties. to consider a long-term As per The Real Deal, popdeal,” says Kelly Gedinsky, ups were traditionally seen as Winick Realty Group short term improvising that broker landlords and brokers used while waiting for permanent It appeals to tenants because tenants. But some experts say it allows them to test the market these transactions will become before tying themselves down increasingly sought after, as and committing for the long building owners struggle to run. The owner makes money minimize vacancies in the onon the property while it remains going battle between brick-andon the market for a long-term mortar stores and e-commerce. lease. The tenant gets visibili- Currently, less than 15 percent ty in the prestigious New York of all retail sales in the U.S. are market with very limited risk. made online. By 2025, howevThe landlord benefits in avert- er, it is estimated that one out

of every four purchases will be made online, as per a November 2016 report from FTI Consulting. These odds create a daunting reality in which retail stores are increasingly guarded when it comes to signing long term leases. “Things change so drastically these days, it’s harder for retailers to consider a long-term deal,” says Kelly Gedinsky, Winick Realty Group broker. “Unlike five years ago, landlords are more open to pop-ups because so many [potential tenants] are coming to them and their brokers saying, ‘Look, we want to test this market for a year. If it works, we’d be happy to look See Manhattan Pop-Up Shops , page 36

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he luxury hotel UN New York will become part of the Hilton empire on August 30 and take on a new name the Millennium Hilton New York One Plaza. What this means exactly can be a bit confusing so The Post with the help from Hilton, try to lay out the implications of hotel ownership and branding in a recent article. According to that article, “The recently modernized and renovated hotel at First Avenue and East 44th Street is owned, not by publicly traded Hilton, but by a different publicly traded company, Millennium Hotels and Re-

sorts. It’s the seventh property in the city to be managed or franchised under the flag of Hilton Hotels & Resorts, which is Hilton’s flagship brand. In addition to the Millennium Hilton New York One Plaza, Hilton Hotels & Resorts also manages the Hilton Midtown (on Sixth Avenue) and the Millennium Downtown (on Church Street). Four other city properties under the HH&R brand are franchised. Hilton also manages or franchises properties around the world under 13 other brands, including Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts (which will manage the Waldorf for 100 years when it reopens after its ongoing renovation by owner Anbang Insurance Group), Conrad, Double One UN New York is located in Manhattan’s East Side and just 2 blocks from the Grand Central Terminal.

The Hilton located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue.

Tree and Embassy Suites.” There are 43 Hilton-branded properties in all within New York City. However, none of them are actually owned by Hilton. In January 2017, it put the properties it owned into the publicly traded Park Hotels & Resorts, which is a REIT that has ownership of 67 of the most luxurious hotels and resorts around the world, including among them the Hilton located on Sixth Avenue.

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n the modern office leasing market, it has become more and more important to tenants to have “cool” amenities, especially those is the creative fields. Both new and old projects alike are offering features like onsite cafes, games rooms, health clubs and outdoor terraces to appeal to millennials and creative types of every age. Dock 72, which is rising out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, takes the gold with the unique feature of a ferry dock right outside its door. A joint venture of Rudin Development and Boston Properties, Dock 72 is 16 stories, 675,000-square-feet and cost $410 million. Scheduled to open in 2018, the new Citywide Ferry Service stop will be an entrance portal for the whole 300 acres, city-owned Navy Yard, which is a modern industrial park sitting between the Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges. Since the ferry stop is basically at Dock 72’s front door, those who work there will feel like it’s their special landing. The Post reports, “Dock 72 got off to a hot start. The anchor tenant, burgeoning shared-space provider WeWork, claimed 220,000 square feet and participated in the design of the lobby, common areas, and 35,000 square feet of amenity space by Fogarty Finger Architecture. (The building itself was designed

Dock 72 rendering (Photo Credit: S9 Architecture)

collaboratively by S9 Architecture and Perkins Eastman.) The fun stuff also includes a basketball court and a 10,000 squarefoot landscaped recreation area. The project boldly wades into a Brooklyn office market that’s seen 900,000 newly created square feet come on line this year, raising the borough’s total office inventory to 45 million square feet. The new construction has not surprisingly spurred buzz about a possible ‘glut.’ But Rudin Development Chief Executive William Rudin brushed off any concerns.” He said, “Dock 72 is a unique product, surrounded by water on three sides. It’s priced very competitively. There are no real estate taxes because it’s on city-owned land.” With approximately 440,000-square-feet still avail-

able, the asking rents are from the mid to high $50s per square foot for the lower floors and for the higher floors it in the $60s range, according to Rudin. On a 60,000-square-foot space that sticks out into the East River, the building has a striking profile even though its curtain wall hasn’t been installed yet. The Post reports, “Some 70,000-people toiled at the Yard to build much of the mighty US World War II fleet. By 2001, the number of workers had dwindled to 3,600. But 16,000 people are expected to work there by 2020, in such fields as film production, organic rooftop farming, digital innovation and fashion design.” In mid-2016, ground was broken on the project. In January 2017, developers closed on a construction loan for $250 million.

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Mystery Buyer of $70M Penthouse Developer Provokes Ire Over Plan to at 520 Park Avenue Revealed Turn Apt Bldg Into Homeless Shelter By: Hellen Zaboulani

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n June, the Wall Street Journal reported that two of priciest apartments at 520 Park Avenue were under contract. The asking prices for the lofts were approximately $73 million and $83 million. Who the buyers were remained a mystery. As reported by The Real Deal, billionaire Frank Fertitta III is the buyer of the $70 million penthouse. The buyer of the $83 million apartment, a six-bedroom duplex, is yet to be revealed. In June, the Wall Street Journal reported that two of priciest apartments at 520 Park Avenue were under contract.

As reported by The Real Deal, billionaire Frank Fertitta III is the buyer of the $70 million penthouse. The buyer of the $83 million apartment, a sixbedroom duplex, is yet to be revealed.

Fertitta is the former owner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the world’s leading mixed martial arts organization. In 2016, he sold Las Vegas based UFC for $4 billion to an investment group led by WME/ IMG. Along with and his brother, Lorenzo, Fertitta took public their casino business, Red Rock Resorts, which was founded by their late father. According to Forbes, the 55-year-old has a net worth of $1.97 billion. The condo unit purchased, is a six-bedroom duplex, spanning 9,138 square feet, with 279 additional square feet of outdoor space and Central Park views. The 54-story limestone condominium tower at 520 Park Avenue was developed by

Zeckendorf Development, and designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The 33-unit building boasts a fitness center with pool, sauna and steam room, exercise and treatment rooms, a salon for socializing, a garden with decorative fountains, and a children’s playroom. The condo tower has a projected sellout of $1.25 billion. The building is also listing a $130 million penthouse that would be among the most expensive apartment sales in NYC’s history, if it sells at that price. The number one most expensive sale is likely to be a condo which is in contract with an asking price of $250 million, at 220 Central Park South by Vornado Realty Trust, as per the NY Post.

ark Stagg, the developer of a Bronx apartment building at 5731 Broadway, has stirred controversy with plans to convert the building into a homeless shelter, allowing him to earn more and save on marketing costs by renting the building to the city, according to a New York Post report this last week. Stagg initially intended to charge private tenants approximately $641 per room, according to a January filing seeking a property tax break. Following an agreement by the de Blasio administration to rent the building for transitional housing for the homeless, Stagg increased the rent to $1,028 per room, according to a 421-A property-tax exemption he filed with the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which was also cited by the NY Post. Charles Moerdler, the Chair of the Land Use Committee of Community Board 8, told the Post there is “no question that Stagg is clearly going to make more money renting the building to the city as a homeless shelter than had he done this deal as a responsible private landlord providing market-rental housing.”

Mark Stagg, the developer of a Bronx apartment building at 5731 Broadway, has stirred controversy with plans to convert the building into a homeless shelter, allowing him to earn more and save on marketing costs by renting the building to the city

“This is a very sweet deal for the developer and not a very good deal for the taxpayers.” On its website, the Stagg Group, Stagg’s real estate company, says it has been “providing quality, affordable homes and apartments, in the Bronx and Westchester County, for almost two decades.” Despite earning $200,000 a month from the non-profit Praxis Housing Initiatives, Stagg refuted claims that he is financially exploiting the homeless. “It’s not like we’re bringing in the Brink’s truck,” he told the Post. “This is not a windfall.” According to the Post, the Department of Homeless

Services entered into a contract with Praxis, paying the non-profit $5.3 a year to operate to operate the shelter. Of that money, 2.4 million will cover rent payments to Stagg, rounding out to the above-mentioned $200,000 monthly. A plan by the Stagg Group to house homeless families in a residential building at 3677 White Plains Road also drew criticism last month from Councilman Andy King. “The Stagg Group has built an 80/20 building where 80 percent of the residents are from shelters,” King said at See Developer Provokes Ire , page 38

NYC Commercial Real Estate Sales Drop in 1st Quarter of 2017 By: Hadassa Kalatizadeh

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or the first quarter of 2017, New York commercial real estate sales fell in every property-type category, from office buildings to hotels. The number of transactions was down by 6%. More notably, the value of transactions decreased 39% compared to the same period last year, declining significantly in every borough except for Staten Island. The total Sales for the first 6 months of 2017 was approximately $18 billion, down from $29.5 billion in the same period 2016, as per a report from the Real Estate Board of New York. Since the organization began tracking commercial property sales in 2014, transactions hit a peak of $37 billion in the first half of 2015,

Even with the big ticket $2.2 billion sale of the office tower at 245 Park Avenue, office deals dropped 40% to $7.3 billion in the first half of the year

president at the Real Estate Board of New York. The drop in dollar volume as well as the number of transactions hint at investor uncertainty, said Slattery. Apprehension about rising interest rates also played a part in the slump. Even with the big ticket $2.2 billion sale of the office Even with the big ticket tower at 245 Park Avenue, of$2.2 billion sale of the office tower at 245 Park fice deals dropped 40% to $7.3 billion in the first half of the Avenue, office deals year. Multifamily rental builddropped 40% to $7.3 billion in the first half of ings with elevators, which is generally a stable sect, experithe year. enced a 51% drop to $1.9 billion. Vacant land, gas stations, and garages were among the according to the report. “There is a slowdown in only category in which both activity, certainly in terms of total sales amount and the high-priced sales,” said Mi- number of transactions did chael Slattery, a senior vice not decline in unison. Total

sales for the category fell 46% to $919 million, but the number of deals increased 25%, signifying the properties sold this year were less valuable in comparison to last year. For the first half of 2017, Staten Island was the only borough to break the trend with an increase in commercial real estate sales. Commercial sales rose 61% to $300 million. The number of transactions also rose 23 percent from the previous year, to190. Sales were led by the category of garages, gas stations and vacant land, as well as industrial and retail properties. These categories made up 89 percent of the total dollar amount in sales, with no multifamily rental buildings sold.

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Inside Montauk's Pop Star Party Pad - On the Market for $62M Celebrities including Mick Jagger all partied in this glorious mansion By Mark Snyder

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majestic Montauk mansion overlooking the Atlantic Ocean was obtained by the then writer for “The Mery Griffon Show” Dick Cavett in 1967. Back then, the home was known as Tick Hall, which Cavett and his wife actress Carrie Nye rented for the entire summer for a mere $1,000.

since been sold by Cavett to preservationist. In an interview with The Post, the 80-year-old talk-show legend spoke about the first time he laid his eyes upon this glorious residence. Cavett said, “We drove off a private road. There was nothing around. It was like entering the Witness Protection Program. Then the house loomed before you.”

Dick Cavett’s majestic Montauk mansion is on the market for $62 million. (Photo Credit: Corcoran)

This party house, which hosted some of the biggest pop culture celebrities, is now on the market for $62 million. This marvelous mansion was built by the famous architect Stanford White in the early 1880s. It originally sat on an immense 96 acres of which 77 have

The property, which spans 6,000-square-feet used to be used as a fishing house for the previous owner and his Wall Street buddies. In a video interview, Nye said, “The house was a mess. The floors were caving in. Dick and I thought it was just beautiful. We had no problems

with it.” The property sat on an incredible 900 feet of ocean front. According to The Post, “At the time, playwright Edward Albee was also interested in moving in, but the owners turned their noses up at his plans to install a tennis court and a swimming pool. After a couple of years of renting for the summer and even into the fall — despite a lack of heating — the Cavetts

Cavett’s ideal escape from “the hectic world of showbiz — and with almost nobody on your beach.” In 1968, “The Dick Cavett Show” premiered on ABC, and quickly gained the writer recognition as a genius talk show host. Knowing that they wouldn’t be pandered by Cavett, the hardestto-get celebrities in New York and Hollywood appeared on his show, including Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn. He would often record his shows on

It was a great party house for some of the biggest pop culture celebrities for many years. (Photo Credit: Corcoran)

bought it for $200,000. Cavett, who had written jokes for Jack Paar and Johnny Carson on ‘The Tonight Show,’ wasn’t sure he could afford it. ‘I’m a struggling beginner in show business,’ he recalled thinking. ‘I’m lucky to have a two-room apartment.’” Tick Hall was fast to become

Top Priced Home in NYS Hits Hamptons Market for $175M By Charles Bernstein

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he most expensive house listing for not just the East End, but across all of New York State has hit the market. This gigantic Southhampton estate has an incredible asking price of $175 million, according to The Post. The property was originally constructed for the Ford family on Jule Pond. The massive 12-bedroom house is on 42.12 acres and has a giant 20,000-square-foot house, which dates back to in 1960. This Southampton mansion is the most expensive pad on the Former partner at equity market for $175 million, and has the most ocean front than any fund Zweig-Dimenna, portfo- property in the Hamptons. (Photo Credit: Bespoke Real Estate) any property in the Hamptons. It also has majestic unobstructed views of the Atlantic to the south and Mecox Bay to the east. According to the real estate information portal HREO. com, this new listing stole the title of priciest property from and other Southampton home located on Meadow Lane. The now second most expensive property is priced at $150 million and owned by Goldman Sachs executive J. Michael Evans and his wife, Lise. The Meadow Lane property sits on 14 acres Built by Henry Ford II in 1960, the estate was once called of land with more than 700 feet Fordune. (Photo Credit: Bespoke Real Estate) of oceanfront space, and includes a main house that spans lio manager Brenda Earl, is said Drive. to be the current owner of the The property has close to a 12,000-square-feet with an inproperty. In 2002, she bought quarter-mile, exactly 1,286.1 See Top Priced Home in NYS , page 38 the estate located at 90 Jule Pond feet, of ocean front, the most of

Thursday, so that he could head out to Montauk for a long weekend. Cavett would bring many of his friends from showbiz with him as house guests. One of the first to visit him was his lifelong friend Woody Allen. From the close by Andy Warhol compound, Mick and Bian-

ca Jagger, along with the rest of the Rolling Stones, would drop by. Cavett said, “Mick drove his car off the edge of my road. I had to take the two Jaggers home. The next morning, six burly men were outside the house, lifting the car onto the road.” Boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who often appeared on the Cavett show, was invited to spend the night while he was out on Long Island working on a documentary. In 1997, Trick Hall was

Cavett asked himself after the smoke settled, “What if I was here? I could have saved half the house.” Nothing could be salvaged. Cavett said, “The mind can’t quite take it in. It’s like the brain protecting itself. You just don’t believe it.” The Post reports, “Despite the home’s esteemed beginnings, no original blueprints were on record. But Nye came up with a plan to ‘duplicate’ Tick Hall, reconstructing the

The property has an incredible 900 feet of ocean front. (Photo Credit: Corcoran)

burned to the ground by a conflagration that left only the chimney standing. Luckily Cavett and Nye were both out when the blaze was started by “a workman on the roof ” with something like “a hot welding rod,” erupted. “I was in New York [City],” Cavet he recalled.

house through photographs — hers, Cavett’s, and those of their many guests — and memory. Architect James Hadley of Wank Adams Slavin Associates, a firm known for its preservation work, led a team See Inside Montauk’s Pop Star , page 38

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Trump Outlines Broad Afghan Strategy Aimed at Changing Tide of War By: Natalie Johnson

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he Trump administration will place new pressure on Pakistan to stop providing safe haven to terrorists as part of a broader Afghanistan strategy update announced Monday night. President Donald Trump, who delivered a long-awaited address outlining a new plan for the 16-year war, now the nation's longest, suggested the United States will slash the billions of dollars in aid provided to Pakistan annually if it fails to take action against terrorist groups, namely, the Taliban. "Pakistan has much to gain from partnering with our effort in Afghanistan," Trump said. "It has much to lose by continuing to harbor criminals and terrorists." Pakistan and bordering Afghanistan are home to the highest concentration of terrorist groups in the world, with more than 20 U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations residing in the two countries. The Pakistani government is notorious for harboring terrorist groups, including top Taliban leaders. Trump also said the United States will seek greater help from India, Pakistan's neighbor to the south, in the areas of economic assistance and development in Afghanistan.

The announcement follows a months-long policy review

that would look like. "Nearly 16 years after Sep-

In Interview, Bannon Says Trump Presidency ‘Is Over’ By: Charles Fain Lehman

S The Trump administration will place new pressure on Pakistan to stop providing safe haven to terrorists as part of a broader Afghanistan strategy update announced Monday night.

encompassing top U.S. military commanders and political advisers and aims to change the tide of the war that has been locked in a stalemate for over half a year. Trump in his Monday speech said he will not detail troop levels, nor will he issue an end date for withdrawal. He said the war will be guided by conditions rather than timelines, but did not expand on how the United States would achieve victory. Trump spent much of his speech reassuring the American public that U.S. military involvement will have a clear end goal, though he did not detail what

tember 11 attacks, after the extraordinary sacrifice of blood and treasure, the American people are weary of war without victory," he said. "I share the American people's frustration." "My original instinct was to pull out, and historically I like following my instincts. But all my life, I have heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office. In other words, when you are president of the United States. So I studied Afghanistan in great detail and from every conceivable angle." See Trump Outlines Broad , page 38

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teven Bannon, now-former Chief Strategist to President Donald Trump, believes that "the Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over." Bannon spoke to the Weekly Standard Friday afternoon, shortly after news of his departure from the White Housebroke. He told TWS that his leaving the administration marked a turning point for Trump's presidency. "The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over," Bannon said. "We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It'll be something else. And there'll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over." Prior to leaving the White House, Bannon was a close confidante of the president, starting when he joined Trump's darkhorse presidential campaign. In recent days, things seemed to have soured between him and the President, especially after Bannon gave an interview to the left-leaning American Prospect in which he contradicted Trump on several issues, including North Korea. Still, Bannon seemed to believe that he and Trump share goals —

Former Trump Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has gone back to Breitbart.com

and that with Bannon out of the White House, achieving those goals will be much harder. "Now, it’s gonna be Trump," he said. "The path forward on things like economic nationalism and immigration, and his ability to kind of move freely … I just think his ability to get anything done – particularly the bigger things, like the wall, the bigger, broader things that we fought for, it’s just gonna be that much harder." Bannon pinned the blame for this sea change in the administration on "the West Wing Democrats" and forewarned of a "jailbreak of these moderate guys on the Hill," who, he feared, would undermine his populist-nationalist agenda. "It's the Republican establishment. The Republican establish-

ment has no interest in Trump's success on this. They're not populists, they're not nationalists, they had no interest in his program. Zero. It was a half-hearted attempt at Obamacare reform, it was no interest really on the infrastructure, they'll do a very standard Republican version of taxes," he said. "What Trump ran on — border wall, where is the funding for the border wall, one of his central tenets, where have they been?" he asked. "On what element of Trump's program, besides tax cuts — which is going to be the standard marginal tax cut – where have they rallied to Trump’s cause? They haven't." Rather, Bannon predicted, with him gone, Congressional Republicans and White House moderates would try to reign in Trump. "I think they're going to try to moderate him," he said. "I think he’ll sign a clean debt ceiling, I think you'll see all this stuff. His natural tendency — and I think you saw it this week on — his actual default position is the position of his base, the position that got him elected. I think you’re going to see a lot of constraints on that. I think it'll be much more conventional." Bannon claimed that his departure was amicable, explaining, "I want to get back to Breitbart." (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON)

Petition Declaring Antifa a Terror Group Gets 100,000 Signatures

U.S. Urges UN Not to Publish Anti-Israel Blacklist

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petition calling on President Trump to recognize the radical far-left group 'Antifa' as a terrorist organization has hit the 100,000 signature threshold it needs to receive an official response from the White House. The petition said: "Terrorism is, in its broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror or fear, in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim. Antifa has demonstrated time and time again that they're more than willing and able to fill these criteria." "We're asking that the president formally declare Antifa a domestic terror organization. The Obama administration had obligated itself to respond to any petition that received more than 100,000 signatures on its

Antifa, short for 'antifascist', is a group of loosely affiliated anarchists and extreme leftists who contend that they are waging violent warfare against right wing extremists, but promote violence against others as well.

Antifa has in the past rioted against conservative speakers on college campuses, and fought against policemen at Black Lives Matter protests.

'We the People' website, and sent out an official response to 321 out of 323 petitions that reached the threshold. The Trump administration has been more reticent, and has reportedly been considering shutting the website down, citing high maintenance costs. Antifa, short for 'anti-fascist', is a group of loosely affiliated anarchists and extreme leftists who contend that they are waging violent warfare against right wing extremists, but promote violence against others as well. Antifa has in the past rioted against conservative speakers on college campuses, and fought against policemen at Black Lives Matter protests. Experts say the movement has

boomed since Trump’s election. Mark Bray, a lecturer on human rights and politics at Dartmouth College, told JTA that he estimates there are several hundred Antifa chapters of varying sizes and levels of activity across the country. “The threat posed by the ‘altright’ in the context of empowerment through Trump made a lot of people concerned about fascist, neo-Nazi, white supremacist violence,” said Bray, author of the forthcoming book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. “They turned to the Antifa model as one option to resist it. The option of physically confronting these groups has spread among the left and been normalized.” (INN)

he Trump administration is urging the United Nations not to publish a “blacklist” of international firms that do business in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, diplomats and others said Monday, according to the Washington Post. The UN Human Rights Council voted to approve the database of companies last year, despite objections from the United States and Israel. American companies on the list drawn up by the Geneva-based council include Caterpillar, TripAdvisor, Priceline.com, Airbnb and others, people familiar with it told the Washington Post. It is not clear whether the list has been finalized. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has told U.S. officials he plans to publish the list by the end of the year and has asked for comments by September 1 from countries where affected firms are headquartered, diplomats said. U.S. officials would not comment on which firms were included on a version of the list recently transmitted to U.S. diplomats. When the announcement of

The Trump administration is urging the United Nations not to publish a “blacklist” of international firms that do business in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, diplomats and others said Monday, according to the Washington Post.

the blacklist was first made public, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned it and said that "the UNHRC has become an anti-Israeli circus with their attacks on the only democracy in the Middle East and their disregard for the gross violations in Iran, Syria and North Korea.” The prime minister called on “responsible governments” not to respect the UN resolution that discriminates against Israel. Earlier on Monday, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, blasted the blacklist. “This shameful step is an expression of modern anti-Sem-

itism and reminds us of dark periods in history. Instead of focusing on the terrible humanitarian problems plaguing the globe, the Human Rights Commissioner is seeking to harm Israel, and in doing so has become the world’s most senior BDS activist. I call on the UN, and the international community as a whole, to halt this dangerous policy and put an end to this anti-Israel initiative," Danon said. Zeid had agreed to one postponement in the publication of the list this year, partly in response to a U.S. request, See U.S. Urges UN Not , page 38

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Taxpayers Spending Millions to Fund de Blasio’s ‘Special Assistants’ as ‘Hizzoner’ Bashes Them De Blasio qualified on Aug. lion-plus budget surplus to fix fix [sic] the problem, which is 3 for taxpayer matching funds, the subways. bluntly unprofessional." "Here’s the truth: They’re not A former City Hall Staffer which are capped at 25 pertalized to indicate emphasis in pronunciation," de Blasio wrote told the Post that de Blasio's cent when a candidate is facing even spending their capital budemail rants were "par for the minimal opposition. However, get," the mayor said. "There’s a in one furious message. he convinced the Campaign huge amount of money sitting "I have no idea why you guys type of emails he sent." The Washington Free Beacon Finance Board (CFB) that his there, including the money the can't get it," he said. "All of the folks in comms, speechwrit- also reported on August 15th, main Democratic rival, Coun- city gave. We gave them $2.5 ing and my personal staff who that de Blasio took off for a fam- cilman Sal Albanese, was a seri- billion a couple of years ago. Almost 90 percent of that money is looked at these remarks — it just ily vacation in Rhode Island just ous threat. takes ONE to catch it." A City Hall source told the Post that de Blasio's emails reflect how he acts in meetings and that he has been known to kick staff members out of meetings. The source went on to say that he is "condescending" and "arrogant" with a micromanaging leadership style, in which he exhibits "no confidence" in those working for him. "Part of it stems from the fact that he used to be [a political] operative, and he thinks he can outmaneuver his aides," the source said. De Blasio sent the aforementioned "phonetic spellings" email on Jan. 24, 2015, under the subject line "Kehilath Je- NYC Council Member Mark Levine, Rabbi Josh Rosenfeld, Rabbi Avrohom Marmorstein, Avi Fink, shurun," which is a misspelled Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Michael Landau at Yom HaShoah ceremony reference to Upper East Side The board agreed and added just sitting there." synagogue Congregation Ke- days after he had convinced the De Blasio vowed not to alcity's Campaign Finance Board $1.6 million in taxpayers matchhilath Jeshurun. "How can it be that none of to award him an additional ing funds on top of the $958,000 locate any more funds, saying you noticed the absence with $1.6 million in public matching he would have already received, the state "has used the MTA as a piggy bank" by taking "almost the word Jeshurun. Work on funds for what he called a tough giving de Blasio $2.57 million. "Public-funds payment de- half a billion dollars in money quality control pls. Fix these reelection fight. De Blasio was automatically terminations by the board are out of the MTA to use for the remarks now pls. Example: phoentitled to $958,000 in match- based on … objective criteria state budget. NET-ic," he fumed. "The governor and ChairDe Blasio's email was directly ing funds as part of the city's and nothing else," CFB spokesman Lhota simply need to get sent to "special assistant" Elana campaign finance program— man Matthew Sollars said. Albanese believes de Blasio Leopold, who is currently on though he was not obligated to leave from his office to work take the money—but requested is taking advantage of taxpayer on his re-election campaign. more, claiming that the Demo- money and did not need the exIt was cc'd to Avi Fink, now cratic primary on Sept. 12 will tra funds, the Post reported. Redeputy chief of staff, and Amy be a tough reelection race, ac- cords show the current mayor had $4.9 million is his campaign Spitalnick, who left last October cording to the New York Post. The mayor is considered a account as of last week, while to become the press secretary for state Attorney General Eric heavy favorite in the race and it Albanese had $5,397 without Scheniderman, according to the is rare for candidates to vacation receiving matching money as so close to an election they ex- of yet. Post. "He has more than enough "Guys, I'm fed up," De Blasio pect to be a hard-fought battle. "It's unfortunate that the money to get his message out," fumed in a follow-up email on Feb. 6, 2015, after he blundered mayor made a strong case for Albanese said. "His [public additional matching funds by funds] could have gone towards delivering remarks in Spanish. improving city services." The WFB also reported that in July, DeBlasio ordered the police to clear out homeless people from two subway stations ahead of his four-stop press event so that the stations "looked nice," according to a new report. Law enforcement sources told the New York Post that the police had until 11 a.m. on Sunday to eject those who were "hanging out" at the Fourth Avenue/Ninth Street and Jay Street/ MetroTech F train stations. Another source put it this way: de Blasio's office let the police know ahead of time about his schedule "with the expectation that the subway stations would be free and clear of homeless people." De Blasio's trip from his Park Slope gym to his new campaign office in Brooklyn was part of a "It just shows a complete disregard for the taxpayers of the publicity stunt to call out New city and it also displays his mismanagement—because we're York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) not even getting results," likely Republican challenger Nicole regarding funding for the city's Malliotakis said of de Blasio's staff salaries. transportation system, the Post "I have raised the problem saying he had a competitive reported. Once aboard, Hizzoner — of inconsistency in providing race and then took off on vacaphonetic pronunciation and tion," Dick Dadey, director of who was joined by a pack of in providing clearly delineated the government watchdog Citi- journalists — launched into a Spanish (with emphasis on the zens Union, told the Post. "The diatribe against Cuomo and proper syllable) many, many argument that he needed it for MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, times," he wrote. "And yet be- a competitive election doesn't who blamed de Blasio for refusing to spend the city’s $4 biltween all of you, you haven’t hold together very well." Continued from page 1

De Blasio sent the "phonetic spellings" email on Jan. 24, 2015, under the subject line "Kehilath Jeshurun," which is a misspelled reference to Upper East Side synagogue Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. "How can it be that none of you noticed the absence with the word Jeshurun. Work on quality control pls. Fix these remarks now pls. Example: pho-NET-ic," he fumed.

in front of everyone [and] say, ‘We’re fully responsible, we have to fix the problem.’ They have the resources." Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R.), the presumptive challenger to de Blasio's reelection bid this year, ripped her potential opponent as a hypocrite, given his progressive views on income inequality. "For someone who claims to care about the most poor New Yorkers, to have someone clear his path when he's about to board the subway … tells you all

you need to know about Mayor de Blasio," she said. A City Hall spokesman denied the allegations and said the Post‘s sources were making false claims. De Blasio also found himself in an uncomfortable situation last week when a 63-year-old Queen resident began berating him over his treatment of New York police officers. One CBS reporter compared him to the "Cowardly Lion" in The Wizard Of Oz when he fled the confrontation. (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON)

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But investigators said there was no evidence of any terror links, saying the 35-year-old French driver who had a book about philosophy and another about Islam in the car, had "psychological" problems. The attack is one of a handful in the past month in France in which men suffering from mental illnesses have apparently mimicked jihadist assaults. Collomb said that of the around 17,400 people flagged by

the intelligence services as radicals one third were believed to be mentally ill. The minister said he would enlist the help of psychiatric hospitals in identifying patients who represented a potential threat. "The medical secret is sacred of course but at the same time we must find a way to avoid a certain number of individuals suffering from serious disorders carrying out attacks," he told BFMTV news channel. Terrorism experts have long warned that the intense media coverage of jihadist violence could spur copycat attacks by mentally unstable individuals with a propensity for violence. Citing the case of the Marseille driver, who had several convictions for violence and robbery,

Collomb said: "It's not terrorism... but it is imitation". On August 6, a knife-wielding 18-year-old on leave from a psychiatric hospital was arrested at the Eiffel Tower after bursting past security shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest). The man said during questioning that he had wanted to kill a soldier. A week later, a 32-year-old man rammed his car into a pizzeria near Paris, killing a 13-yearold girl and injuring 13 people. The man, who had taken large quantities of medication, told the police he wanted to commit suicide. Collomb did not say how the authorities assessed the mental health of individuals on the watchlist. (I24 NEWS)

Australia: Neo-Nazi Group Puts Up Anti-Semitic Posters in Schools “This form of hatred on the doorsteps of our schools is terrifying,” said an Australian Jewish community representative. By: WIN Staff

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he Antipodean Resistance Group, a small Neo-Nazi group that calls itself “the Hitlers you’ve been waiting for,” secretly put up anti-Semitic posters at three Melbourne schools, including one showing a foot with a swastika crushing an insect with a Jewish star on it, and another featuring a hook-nosed Jewish caricature alongside the words “Multiculturalism,” “Degeneracy” and “Reject Jewish Poison.” These are traditional Nazi propaganda images. The hateful images sent shockwaves through the city’s 60,000 Jews, stirring up feelings of anger and fear. “I am appalled. This form of hatred on our doorsteps, on the doorsteps of our schools is terrifying and is a direct attack on Victoria’s prized multiculturalism,” Jennifer Huppert, the President of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, said according to the local J-Wire news site. “To direct this at children is even more reprehensible. Unfortunately, domestic neo-Nazis and white supremacists appear to be emboldened by events overseas, and we must stop this

Remnants of Major Pre-Holocaust European Synagogue Exposed Remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna were recently exposed, 70 years after it was destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

early a third of people on a French terror watchlist are believed to have psychiatric disorders, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Tuesday, a day after a mentally ill man went on a rampage in a stolen van in Marseille. The incident, in which the man drove into two bus shelters, killing one person and seriously injuring another, immediately drew comparisons with a string of attacks across Europe in which vehicles have been used as killing A 32-year-old man rammed his car into a pizzeria near Paris, machines. killing a 13-year-old girl and injuring 13 people.

Collomb said that of the around 17,400 people flagged by the intelligence services as radicals one third were believed to be mentally ill.

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ver seven decades after being destroyed during the Holocaust, two Jewish ritual baths (Mikvas), which were connected to the Great Synagogue of Vilna, were exposed by archeologists. In July, a team of Israeli, Lithuanian and American archaeologists unearthed the remains of the two ritual baths that were used by congregants at the Great Synagogue of Vilna. The synagogue, which was the heart of Vilna’s large Jewish community for hundreds of years, was completely destroyed in the Holocaust, but evidence of underground spaces discovered in a study carried out last year led to the excavation of the site and the exposure of the ritual baths. The Great Synagogue of Vilna, built in the 17th century in Baroque-Renaissance style, served as a community gathering place and a center of Torah study. It actually included 12 smaller synagogues and study halls (Batei Midrash), ritual baths, the community council building, Kosher meat stalls, the study hall of Rabbi Eliyahu (the Genius, or “Gaon,” of Vilna), and more. After hundreds of years of existence, the entire Jewish community of Vilna was destroyed and the Lithuanian Jews’ most holy place was looted and burned by the Germans. The standing remains were completely destroyed by the Soviet authorities who built a school in its place.

Over seven decades after being destroyed during the Holocaust, two Jewish ritual baths (Mikvas), which were connected to the Great Synagogue of Vilna, were exposed by archeologists.

and Mikve building of the Jewish community, a community that comprised almost half of the city’s population,” explained Dr. Jon Seligman of Understanding ‘Jerusalem the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), who leads of Lithuania’ the research team. The excavation has followed an architectural “Most of the historical descriptions of the Great Synagogue in Vilna and the community court- plan from the end of the 19th century that was yard (Shulhoyf) relate to the Great Synagogue discovered in the municipal archive of Vilna and and the surrounding prayer halls. Until now, we See Remnants of Major , page 36 have found little information about the bathhouse

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The Antipodean Resistance Group, a small Neo-Nazi group that calls itself “the Hitlers you’ve been waiting for,” has secretly put up anti-Semitic posters at three Melbourne schools, including one showing a foot with a swastika crushing an insect with a Jewish star on it, and another featuring a hook-nosed Jewish caricature alongside the words “Multiculturalism,” “Degeneracy” and “Reject Jewish Poison.”

hate speech in its tracks,” she said. “History shows that hate speech can lead to hate-filled physical attacks, as we have seen very recently in Charlottesville,” she emphasized. According to the Herald Sun, the posters contained white supremacist messages such as “keep Australia white,” “stop the hordes,” possibly relating to immigrants, and “join your local Nazi group,” as well as calling for legalizing the killing of Jews.

“These sort of vile and disgusting comments and posters are not acceptable in the community and those individuals that placed them should be ashamed of themselves,” Education Minister James Merlino is quoted as saying by the Herald Sun. According to the Antipodean Resistance Group’s website, “Being White is not enough. Every individual involved with AntipSee Australia: Neo-Nazi Group , page 36

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Yair Netanyahu Says Leftists More Dangerous than Neo-Nazis Echoing Trump, PM’s son claims ‘thugs of Antifa and Black Lives Matter are getting stronger’ while Nazis are a thing of the past By: Times of Israel Staff

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he son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Wednesday said American left-wing groups are more dangerous than neo-Nazis. Weighing in on the weekend’s violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, during a far-right march, and President Donald Trump’s controversial statements that “both sides were to blame” for the deadly incident, Yair Netanyahu said he was far more concerned by leftist organizations that have recently come into public focus. “To put things in perspective,” Netanyahu wrote on Facebook, “I’m a Jew, I’m an Israeli, the neo nazis scums [sic] in Virginia hate me and my country. But they belong to the past. Their breed is dying out. “However the thugs of Antifa and [Black Lives Matter] who hate my country (and America too in my view) just as much are getting stronger and stronger and becoming super dominant in American universities and public life.” The Israeli premier himself tweeted Tuesday that he was “outraged by expressions of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and racism. Everyone should oppose this hatred,” after he was criticized for staying silent on Charlottesville. In a response Wednesday af-

ternoon to Yair Netanyahu’s comments, sources close to the prime minister said, “Yair is an adult and his views are his alone” Trump’s stance was also supported by Likud MK Oren Hazan, who said Tuesday that the president “is right. Violence and extremism on any side is forbidden and demands condemnation. That doesn’t matter to the bleeding hearts on the left and in the media. After all, they believe that only the right is extremist and violent.” Other Israeli politicians — from left and right — have been far more critical of Trump’s position, some more directly than others. Education Minister Naftali Bennett has called on US leaders to denounce the rally’s “displays of anti-Semitism.” Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked of Bennett’s Jewish Home party has urged prosecution of neo-Nazi activists. Yesh Atid chair MK Yair Lapid and Zionist Union number two MK Tzipi Livni explicitly criticized Trump’s equivalence. “There aren’t two sides,” Lapid said in a Wednesday statement. “When Neo-Nazis march in Charlottesville and scream slogans against Jews and in support of white supremacy, the condemnation has to be unambiguous. They represent hate and evil. Anyone who believes in the human spirit must stand against

thugs” — also hit out at what he called the “alt-left” over the weekend melee. Trump has faced days of critthem without fear.” Livni said “When it comes to icism from across the political racism, anti-Semitism and Na- spectrum over his reaction to zism, there are never two equal Saturday’s unrest in the Virginsides. There’s good and there’s ia college town, where a rally by neo-Nazis and white supremaevil. Period.”

Weighing in on the weekend’s violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, during a far-right march, and President Donald Trump’s controversial statements that “both sides were to blame” for the deadly incident, Yair Netanyahu (pictured above) said he was far more concerned by leftist organizations that have recently come into public focus.

Trump sparked a political firestorm Tuesday when he doubled down on his initial response to the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville that ended in bloodshed, saying there was “blame on both sides.” The Republican president — who the previous day solemnly denounced racism and singled out the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis as “criminals and

cists over the removal of a Confederate statue erupted in clashes with counter-demonstrators. The violent fracas ended in bloodshed when a 20-year-old suspected Nazi sympathizer, James Fields, plowed his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters, leaving one woman dead and 19 people injured. In a rowdy exchange with journalists at Trump Tower in

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New York, Trump made clear on Tuesday that he was fed up with continued questioning about the issue. “I think there is blame on both sides,” Trump said. As he spoke, his new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former Marine general, appeared displeased during the president’s long tirade, standing rigidly. “You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that, but I’ll say it right now,” Trump continued. “What about the alt-left that came charging… at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?… There are two sides to a story.” “What about the fact they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do. As far as I am concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day,” Trump said. Trump’s comments were immediately welcomed by David Duke, a former “grand wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan and a key figure at Saturday’s rally. But on the political left, the president’s words were met with indignation. “Charlottesville violence was fueled by one side: white supremacists spreading racism, intolerance & intimidation. Those are the facts,” said Tim Kaine, a former Democratic vice presidential candidate and senator from Virginia.

The state’s other Democratic senator, Mark Warner, tweeted: “No words.” Trump’s fellow Republicans also didn’t mince words. “We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive,” Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan wrote on Twitter. “This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.” When asked why he waited until Monday to explicitly condemn hate groups present in Charlottesville, Trump said he wanted to be careful not to make a “quick statement” on Saturday without all the facts. “I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct,” Trump insisted. Trump called Fields, who has been charged with second-degree murder, a “disgrace to himself, his family and this country.” But he also said that while there were troublemakers at the rally, there were also many people there “to innocently protest and very legally protest” the removal of a “very important statue” of Confederate general Robert E Lee. “I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?” he said angrily, referring to the fact they owned slaves. “Are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? … You’re changing history. You’re changing culture.” (TIMES OF ISRAEL)

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Government Submits Defense of Settlement Regulation Law

New J’slm-Tel Aviv Train Line Makes First Test Run

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'This is a fast train which will take 28 minutes to get from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,' said an Israeli minister.

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he Judea and Samaria Regulation Law balances between the needs of settlers and the property rights of Palestinians, the government said in a response filed late Monday to the High Court of Justice. Responding to challenges to the law that seeks to retroactively legalize Israeli settlements built on private Palestinian land in Judea and Samaria in exchange for the allocation of alternate lands or financial compensation, the State said the law is fair and equitable to all parties. “The Judea and Samaria Regulation Law provides a proportional, fair and humane response to the very real distress of Israeli citizens who built their homes with government support and at the same time gives Palestinian landowners the opportunity to receive appropriate compensation for their rights,” the State said. The State is represented by a private attorney, Harel Arnon, the author of a book on land laws and international law in Judea and Samaria. The State was forced to hire a private attorney after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit refused to defend the Regulation Law, which he has said is indefensible in court and could put Israel in breach of international law, possibly leading to legal proceedings at the International Criminal Court.

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By: Walter Metuth

A The Judea and Samaria Regulation Law balances between the needs of settlers and the property rights of Palestinians, the government said in a response filed late Monday to the High Court of Justice. Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS

The Regulation Law was passed in February 2017 following the eviction of some 40 families from Amona, an unauthorized outpost adjacent to the settlement of Ofra, north of Jerusalem. The law would retroactively legalize close to 4,000 homes built on private Palestinian land by expropriating land rights to the state. The Palestinian landowners would be compensated with alternate lands or compensation at a rate of 125 percent of the land’s value. The state added that it believed the Regulation Law met the criteria of both Israeli law and international law and that it rejected “attempts to intimidate the government and its officials on the grounds that the Law constitutes a violation of international law.” Furthermore, it said, “the govern-

ment of Israel rejects attempts to impose on the State of Israel different and more stringent standards than are standard practice elsewhere in the world.” The response added that “the Law improves the situation of the (Palestinian) landowners visa-vis their present situation in which they find themselves without land, without compensation and without the ability to sell, this as a result of the racist legislation passed by the Palestinian Authority which calls for the death sentence in the event of selling land to Jews.” Last week, the High Court of Justice issued a temporary injunction suspending implementation of the Regulation Law until appeals against it have been heard. (TPS)

n express-train route between Jerusalem-Tel Aviv made its first test run last Sunday, according to a report by Israel’s Channel 2. “This is a fast train which will take 28 minutes to get from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” noted Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. “This will ensure JerusaThe construction of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem express-train line, is expected to cost some NIS 7 billion ($1.8 billion). The route will provide commuters between both cities with a much more convenient option of travel in terms of time. By car or bus, the commute between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem takes close to an hour without traffic.

“This is a fast train which will take 28 minutes to get from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” noted Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. “This will ensure Jerusalem’s status and will give people the ability to live in it, to set up businesses and will completely change the connection between Jerusalem and the rest of the State of Israel.”

lem’s status and will give people the ability to live in it, to set up businesses and will completely change the connection between Jerusalem and the rest of the State of Israel.” The new Jerusalem-Tel Aviv line was tested with a freight train weighing some 1200 tons that was used to help ascertain the strength of the route’s bridges and rails. The freight train was also intended to help stabilize the line’s concrete and tracks. The report also said that the route’s entire inspection process will last approximately a week, and if all goes well, the line will

open in April of next year. The construction of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem express-train line, is expected to cost some NIS 7 billion ($1.8 billion). The route will provide commuters between both cities with a much more convenient option of travel in terms of time. By car or bus, the commute between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem takes close to an hour without traffic. An old train line from the Ottoman era, which is still in use and a much more roundabout route than the new train line, takes approximately an hour and a half to travel between both cities. (I24NEWS.COM)

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Election Honeymoon Over for Labor Chairman Avi Gabbay

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Netanyahu To Meet With Putin Amid Concerns Over Iran’s Syria Presence

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f Avi Gabbay ever had a “honeymoon” after being elected chairman of the Labor Party on July 10, the romance came to an end Sunday. In a seven-page manifesto entitled “Toolbox for Victory” the new party leader called for a series of amendments to the party constitution, including granting the party chairman the right to to choose a spot on the party’s election slate for the Labor secretary general as well as the right to reserve four spots on the party’s election list for political allies, including two in the top 10 spaces. The proposed amendment specifies that the chairman’s candidates to be slotted into the election list do not have to be members of the Labor Party. In a letter to Labor Party members introducing the proposed amendments, Gabbay said the changes are necessary in order to stabilize the party and to counter longstanding trends of infighting and instability that has defined Labor for decades. Gabbay noted that the party has failed repeatedly in recent decades at winning elections, despite what he called a plurality of “excellent, ethical leaders public servants, at the national, local and community levels.” He said the party has so often been preoccupied with navigating internal party tensions

If Avi Gabbay ever had a “honeymoon” after being elected chairman of the Labor Party on July 10, the romance came to an end Sunday. Photo Credit: Eitan Elhadez/TPS

that is has lacked the ability to “turn outwards” and to address issues of national concern to the general electorate. In order to mount a serious challenge to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Likud Party during Israel’s next general election, Gabbay wrote, scheduled to be held no later than November, 2019, Gabbay said his party must get its own figurative house in order in order to be able to project a compelling message to voters. Predictably, reaction from veteran Labor Party activists was fast in coming, and less than complimentary. General Secretary Eran Hermoni accused Gabbay of trying to turn Labor into a “one-man party” and called on

him to rescind the amendment proposals. “I call on the chairman to act responsibly and to refrain from making drastic, unilateral and draconian suggestions that could create unnecessary tensions within the party for no reason,” Hermoni said. Gabbay’s surprise victory over a field of six candidates – including party heavyweights Amir Peretz and then-chairman Yitzhak Herzog – sent shockwaves through the party, particularly amongst party veterans who viewed the former chairman of the Bezeq telecommunications conglomerate as an outsider with no roots in party or history of left-of-center activism. (TPS)

rime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on the Black Sea later this week. The meeting will be Netanyahu’s fifth visit to the Russian capital since Moscow intervened in the Syrian civil war two years ago. The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that the two will discuss the latest developments in the region as part of ongoing regular talks held every few months in order to discuss bilateral and regional issues and in order to prevent friction between the Israeli and Russian air forces in Syria. The meeting, which has yet to be confirmed by Russian sources, comes amid reports of growing concern in Israel over the Russian-United States brokered ceasefire in southern Syria, and especially over Iran’s growing presence in Syria. Jerusalem is particularly concerned about Iranian attempts to gain a foothold on the Golan Heights border. When the ceasefire was announced July 7, Israel stated that it was “utterly opposed” to the deal, which it believes allows Iran to gain a foothold in Syria to use as a launch pad for attacks against it. Following the announcement

Dichter Slams Meretz MKs for Failing to Raise Payments Issue with Abbas

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I Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee MK Avi Dichter blasted a group of left-wing Knesset members and activists who met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) Sunday, criticizing them for failing to raise the issue of PA salaries to the families of terrorists with the Palestinian leadership.

and the Palestinian Authority. Abu Mazen said that there has been no security cooperation since the July 14 terror attack at the Temple Mount in which a trio of Israeli-Arabs murdered two police officers. But he added that Palestinian forces have doubled their oversight in the area in order to prevent further clashes and the development of a religious war. “That would be the end of the world,” Abu Mazen said. Gal-on said she questioned Abbas about moves to “punish” Gaza residents as part of Fatah’s ongoing rivalry with the Hamas leadership in the coastal strip,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on the Black Sea later this week.

of the ceasefire Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: “I can guarantee that we have done everything and the US side has done everything to ensure that Israel’s security interests within this framework are fully taken into account.”Following the announcement of the Southern Syria ceasefire in early July, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said : “I can guarantee that we have done everything and the US side has done everything to ensure that Israel’s security interests within this framework are fully taken into account.” Amnon Sella, Professor Emeritus for Soviet and Russian studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said ahead of the meeting that Israel’s main con-

cern was preventing the “influence of Iran coming closer and closer to Israel’s borders.” “The closer Iran is coming to Israel’s borders there will be more attempts to send advanced weapons systems to Hezbollah… this of course calls for a great deal of coordination between Israel and Russia so that they do not come to clash,” Sela said. Mossad head Yossi Cohen visited Washington last week to meet with US security officials including National Security Adviser H.R McMasters in talks that were believed to have focused on security matters of concern to Israel in Lebanon and Syria. See Netanyahu To Meet , page 38

Ancient Quarry & Stone Vessel Factory Discovered in Galilee

By: Andrew Friedman hairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee MK Avi Dichter blasted a group of left-wing Knesset members and activists who met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) Sunday, criticizing them for failing to raise the issue of PA salaries to the families of terrorists with the Palestinian leadership. “For God’s sake, how can Meretz MKs, who met with PA chairman Abbas, not have demanded an explanation for salary payments to terrorists and their families? Dichter steamed on Facebook. The missive followed a delegation led by Meretz Party Chairwoman Zahava Gal-on and included fellow Meretz parliamentarian Issawi Freij, Secretary General Mossi Raz and Ilan Baruch, a former Israeli ambassador to South Africa who resigned from the foreign ministry in 2011 saying he could “no longer represent Israel,” due to the policies of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman. The Palestinian leader briefed the delegation on difficulties the Authority faces with the “chaotic” Trump administration as well as on security collaboration between Israel

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f you were throwing a party in first century CE Galilee, would you use pots and tableware made from the finest local pottery, or the inexpensive chalkstone plates? If you cared about the ritual purity of your guests, you’d go with the cheaper chalkstone. New light has been shed on this question with the discovery of a 2,000-year-old stone vessel Stone vessels unearthed inside the ancient workshop at Reineh. quarry and production center at Photo by Samuel Magal/Israel Antiquities Authority Reineh near the city of Nazareth in the Lower Galilee. The ancient site was uncovered during the course of construction work at a new municipal sports center in Reineh. “According to ancient Jewish ritual law, vessels made of pottery are easily made impure and must be broken,” explained Prof. Yonatan Adler of Ariel University and director of the excavations conducted on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

saying a way must be found to strip Hamas of its power without harming civilians. Following the meeting, the Meretz leader said that Israel’s security echelon continually describes Abu Mazen as a “legitimate partner,” in contrast to Prime Minister Netanyahu, and add“According to ancient ed that Meretz enjoys a better Jewish ritual law, vessels working relationship with the made of pottery are easily Palestinians than with the prime made impure and must be minister. She also broken,” Notably, however, the Israeli delegation failed to mention the Palestinian Authority’s contro“Stone, on the other hand, was versial “pay-for-slay” policy of thought to be a material which can never become ritually imSee Dichter Slams Meretz MKs , page 38 pure, and as a result ancient Jews

Archaeological excavations inside the ancient stone-vessel workshop. Photo by Samuel Magal/Israel Antiquities Authority

began to produce some of their everyday tableware from stone.” Indeed, the jars filled with water which the Gospels say Jesus turned into wine were made of chalkstone. And the wedding at Cana narrative in the Gospel of John (John 2:6) relates, “Now there were six stone water jars set there for the Jewish custom of

purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each.” The Reineh excavations unearthed a small cave in which archaeologists have found thousands of chalkstone cores and other types of production waste, including fragments of stone See Ancient Quarry & Stone , page 36

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EDITORIAL

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Think Again Mr. Mayor !!

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uess what? Our Mayor, Bill deBlasio is sylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin opted to side with tinkering with the idea of running for and vote for the law and order and job creator the presidency. Has he really thought out candidate. De Blasio is not known for either. Forthis move? Is he getting his political ad- get his being the candidate supported by police, vice from those silly sycophants surrounding him the law enforcement community or their families. whose jobs are to constantly inflate his already He is not their cup of tea. Earlier this year, deBlasio infuriated the NYPD huge six foot five ego? No matter how mostly disregarded he is by those in the Big Apple, he and the entire city by jetting off to address the is barely known beyond the Hudson River. And G-20 Summit in Hamburg while the body of Poright within his own state he must overcome the lice Officer Miosotis Familia was being prepared presidential ambitions of party mates Governor for burial. At the funeral, most of the NYPD and Cuomo and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand who both their brothers and sisters in attendance from out of town turned their are now poised to run backs on him as he for the top seat in the delivered his worthless nation and are accumueulogy. He was initially lating huge war chests given that never before to fuel their ambitions. done, "Give him our Add to these obvious backs" treatment back deterrents is the fact in 2014 at the funerals that no mayor has ever of police officers Rafajumped directly from a el Ramos and Wenjian City Hall to the White Liu. Throw in his illegal House. Obstacles gahoneymoon travel to lore for "Little d." Castro's Cuba and the Hillary made the mistake of assuming Earlier this year, deBlasio infuriated the NYPD and the antagonism that still the big cities with their entire city by jetting off to address the G-20 Summit generates among the huge populations of in Hamburg while the body of Police Officer Miosotis Florida Cuban community. They are a mablacks, Hispanics, blue Familia was being prepared for burial. jor voting bloc in the collar union workers and Progressives would give her the support she state that has 29 Electoral College votes. DeBlasio may think because of his two overneeded to win in 2016. She thought she would coast to victory. The fake news MSM was spurting whelming victories in NYC that he is presidenout polls that showed she was a shoe-in. Wrong! tial timber. But John Lindsay in 1972 and Rudy Many former blue states such as Michigan, Penn- Giuliani in 2008 were taught a lesson. They were both failures. He must ignore his inner circle of "tuchis leckers" and take into consideration that Earlier this year, deBlasio infuriated the Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are both NYPD and the entire city by jetting off to still bouncing around the political circuit and address the G-20 Summit in Hamburg pumping up the Progessives for sure runs for the while the body of Police Officer Miosotis Oval Office. DeBlasio may think he's a big guy Familia was being prepared for burial. within the city limits but around the country he will be dismissed as a small fry.

Trump’s Accomplishments Heralded

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ery frankly, we are sick and tired of the piles of bubkis concerning the "failures" Causing illegal immigration to drop of the Trump administration that are down 70% from the figures of the growing higher and higher with each Obama years Leftist Fake News Day. So we'll get right to the point and give our readers a short list of DJT's accomplishments in only 7 sitting months of his gangsters being targeted...finally 13) $600 million being cut from our UN peacepresidency. And all of it consummated with some of his own party's defiance and total Democrat re- keeping budget 14) Creating a commission on child trafficking sistance and obstruction. Here they are, short and and voter fraud sweet. He's responsible 15) States now being for: permitted to admin1) The appointment ister drug testing for of Supreme Court Justheir unemployment tice Neil Gorsuch recipients 2) Standing up to 16) NASA now foNorth Korea and havcusing on space exploing China do the dirty ration, not on aiding work to squelch their Muslim nations on threats to us missile technology 3) Causing illegal 17) Forcing through immigration to drop an historic black down 70% from the College University figures of the Obama initiative years 18) Reversing the 4) Pulling out of the lopsided Paris Accords The appointment of Supreme Court Justice Neil Dodd-Frank law 19) Stopping compa5) The Veterans' Ad- Gorsuch nies from moving out ministration now being of the USA able to fire bad employees 20) Cutting the throttling business regulations 6) Creating over 600,000 new well paying jobs 7) The stock market achieving its greatest in order to encourage the growth of small firms 21) Cutting $22 million by reducing the White boom year 8) Coal mining to once again flourish with tens House payroll 22) Signing an executive order to promote enof thousands of new jobs in that area 9) NATO nations caving in and increasing their ergy independence and economic growth 23) Giving all federal departments 6 months spending by over 4.3% 10) The travel ban from the six most terrorist to trim the fat, restructure and improve their efficiency supporting countries being reinstated In short, President Trump, notwithstanding the 11) Creating a commission for opioids total roadblock against his policies from the Demaddiction 12) The violent MS13 gang of mainly illegal ocrats aided by some Anti-Trumper members of his own party, has accomplished what no other president before him has ever done in only seven Creating over 600,000 new well paying short months. We wish him good health, success and well being during his next forty one months jobs in office.

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Letters to the Editor Alt-Left = Alt-Right Dear Editor Last night I posted my support for Trump on a site that I did not realize was extremely to the left or liberal. A few lessons learned: The liberals on the site will never accept Mr. Trump no matter what he says. This morning, listening to the TV news, all I heard was criticism of the president. As you know, I am a product of the Holocaust, having lost most of my family including two siblings to the Nazi murderers. Those on this vicious liberal site were told this by me, yet they called me horrible names including Nazi and Hitler lover and said that Hitler should have murdered me too. They said with

Mr. Trump in office all the Jews will be sent to gas chambers. In the eighties Rabbi Kahane, ztk’l and I appeared on numerous TV shows debating and denouncing the KKK, skinheads, neo-Nazis and other anti-Semites. Today it is not easy to distinguish the alt-left from the alt-right. The left also contains many who are anti-Semitic but camouflage it in their liberal rhetoric. I would like the opportunity as I did in the eighties and nineties to debate both sides and let the truth come out. I need your help. Please reach out to the media requesting that I be invited to speak. Sincerely

Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg

The Media War on Trump Dear Editor: The head honchos in the hardened bunkered war rooms of MSNBC, CBS, CNN, ABC NPR, PBS, the NYT, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune and on and on, are not uniformed nor do they wear military eagles or stars on their jackets, yet they are the planners of the battle plan and the campaigners to defeat and bring down the administration of President Trump. Sadly, these members of the media, the Fourth Estate, those who are still guaranteed their freedom of speech, to write their opinions without fear of being shut down by the government, are committing suicide by joining together, as one, with the likes of the street mobs clamoring to destroy the Constitution. Apparently unbeknownst to them, they are supporting the demagogues such as George Soros and Barack Obama who are now invisibly leading the forces of chaos and revolt throughout the land. If this revolution is successful, their voices will be silenced. It happened in Germany, Cuba, Venezuela and is clearly taking shape and form within our borders. What makes these media giants deaf, dumb and blind to the threats to their Constitutional freedoms once the rioters, the thugs wielding homemade flame throwers, those who tear down public statues and burn down cities with the police standing idly by have destroyed our liberties? Once the Black Lives Matter, Occupy Movement, the Islamists and

the Constitution bashing Marxists take over do they think they'll be permitted to speak out with the freedoms they have now? Will anyone be able to express his or her opinions around the card table or on the golf course without being beaten, chained and hauled off to an American styled Siberia or Auschwitz for speaking out as a racist, gay basher, Islamophobe or woman hater? Juan Williams, the Fox News pundit was tossed out of his job by NPR for speaking honestly about Muslims. Yet he is in the forefront of shutting down free speech for others by referring to Republicans as "Fascists." Is he aware that the Democrat Party in which he proudly claims membership was the "Hate Black" party that still enslaves them with food stamps, abortions and hand outs? His Leftist buddies, were they in control of the nation (as he wants) would toss him out the window in a white-hooded moment if he ever uttered a non PC word. We are now headed down the slippery slope to totalitarianism, fascism and one party rule and those who would suffer the most are sadly in the lead. Recall where those who initially supported Nazism and the Soviet Revolution ended up. Something about paying the penalty for not studying and learning about the past pops up in my head. Sincerely

Alan Bulwarky

Supporting the Charlottesville Jewish Community Dear Editor: (The following in an open letter to the Charlottesville Jewish Community from the RCA) As we usher in this Shabbat just one week after the violent and deadly racist and anti-Semitic events in your city, the members of the Rabbinical Council of America reach out to you in solidarity, support, and friendship. Elie Wiesel once said, "Jews alone are vulnerable...but Jews must not be alone." Know that you are not alone. While you were on the frontline of ugly manifestations of hatred and bigotry that led to death, intimidation, and fear; while there were calls to burn down your synagogue; and while you were eyewitnesses to the worst expressions of intolerance in our society, we were all under attack. When you are threatened, we are all threatened. When you are hurt, we all hurt. Know that you are not alone. We add our voices to yours in condemning these manifestations, supporting those in political and religious leadership denouncing them, and call on all leaders and people of good will and faith to name and reject unequivocally and without qualification the views and actions of

White Supremacists, neo-Nazis, the alt-right, and their supporters. We mourn with you the victims of this domestic terrorism: Heather Heyer, Lt. H. Jay Cullen, and trooper-pilot Berke M.M. Bates. In fighting these prejudices we must learn an important lesson from the Jewish Shabbat herself: Shabbat begins with the recitation of Kiddush, the blessing which sanctifies the holy day, and ends with Havdalah, the blessing which distinguishes the holy day that has passed from the weekday ahead. In both cases we are asked to make distinctions, distinctions between the holy and the profane, between light and darkness, and, ultimately, between good and evil. As the beauty and restfulness of this Shabbat descends on your community, we are all asked to raise our voices to distinguish between good and evil, and in so doing make our country more holy, more peaceful, and more godly for all of its people.

Rabbi Elazar Muskin, President Rabbi Mark Dratch, Executive Vice President

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Trump and the Jews The fact is that the rhetoric of white supremacists on Israel and Jews is largely indistinguishable from the language of the far Left By: Caroline Glick

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n Wednesday, President Reuven Rivlin sent a letter of support to the American Jewish community in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Saturday. On the surface, his move made sense – the largest Diaspora community is concerned about the growing profile of viciously antisemitic forces on the Right. But at a deeper level, Rivlin’s move was detrimental.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin sent a letter of support to the American Jewish community in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia

Rivlin’s letter channeled a communal posture that ignores the actual state of the Jewish community. In so doing, it made it more difficult for Jewish Americans to recognize and surmount the dangers they face. The American Jewish community is rightly concerned about neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups that are gaining more and more attention these days. The fact that antisemitism was the dominant theme of a rally ostensibly organized to oppose the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a public park reveals the potency and centrality of Jew-hatred as an organizing tool for white supremacists in America. President Donald Trump’s remarks on Tuesday, where he claimed that only some of the people participating in the protest were white supremacists and the rest were just there to protect a monument, were hurtful. On Thursday, The New York Times published interviews with rally participants that bore out Trump’s claims. They said they were only at the rally to protect the statue and do not harbor white supremacist views. Maybe they were telling the truth. But it is hard to believe people who oppose white supremacism and Jew-hatred would willingly march under swastika flags to the roar of Nazi chants. Whatever the case, Trump’s equivocation was distressing. But then, it wasn’t unprecedented for a president to obfuscate the potency of antisemitism in political violence. In February 2015, a terrorist aligned with Islamic State entered the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris on a

Friday afternoon and held the Jewish shoppers hostage while killing four of them. When asked about the event, then-president Barack Obama denied the massacre was an antisemitic attack. He referred to the victims as “a bunch of guys in a deli.” The perpetrators were merely “a bunch of violent, vicious zealots.”

The administration only deigned to acknowledge the truth in clarifications on Twitter, which it belatedly released, and which included the outright lie that the administration had said the attack was antisemitic all along. The Obama administration’s mind-melting refusal to acknowledge the attack was

The American Jewish community is rightly concerned about neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups that are gaining more and more attention these days. Writes Caroline Glick: “The fact that antisemitism was the dominant theme of a rally ostensibly organized to oppose the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a public park reveals the potency and centrality of Jew-hatred as an organizing tool for white supremacists in America.”

Caroline Glick writes: Jeffrey Goldberg (pictured above), Obama’s favored Jewish journalist, tweeted, “FWIW [for what it’s worth], the Obama Administration has been pretty clear in its condemnations of European antisemitism over time.” Today, the same Goldberg who underplayed and denied what can at best be called Obama’s diffident response to anti-Jewish violence, has been leading the charge against Trump. Among other things, Goldberg likened the counterprotesters at Charlottesville to the American soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy.

Caroline Glick writes: “Hence, Linda Sarsour (pictured above) the BDS leader who was elevated to the top of the US feminist movement when she served as co-chairwoman of the Women’s March against Trump, insists that Zionists cannot be feminists.”

When asked to clarify if Obama really meant to deny the attack was an antisemitic assault, both the White House and State Department spokespeople insisted, repeatedly, that the attack was not antisemitic.

anti-Jewish bespoke its larger policy of denying that Jews are specifically targeted for annihilation by Islamic terrorists. The implications of the policy of denial for the safety of Jews throughout the world, including

American soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy. So from the American In Goldberg’s conflation of Jewish community’s neo-Nazis with real Nazis and perspective, there ought the far-left counterprotesters in to be no distinction Charlottesville to US forces, we between its abhorrence see the real issue at the heart of and concern over the the maelstrom now dominating white supremacists US public life. and its concerns and The real taboo Trump broke abhorrence of the radical in his remarks following last Left weekend’s deadly riot was not his equivocation about the relative badness of the neo-Nazis. Goldberg and his colleagues know they were. In an ironic twist of history’s knife, the day of the riots, the September issue of The Atlantic monthly, where Goldberg serves as editor, hit the newsstands. The cover story, written by Peter Beinart, one of the stars of the American Jewish Left, was inconveniently titled, “The rise of the violent Left.” Beinart’s article chronicled the violence and lawlessness of Antifa, the radical group that organized the counterprotest in Charlottesville. Antifa is a group of radical goons who stand behind the violence that In February 2015, a terrorist aligned with Islamic State entered has plagued US college campusthe Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris on a Friday es for the past several years. All afternoon and held the Jewish shoppers hostage while the violent protests – from Verkilling four of them. Caroline Glick writes: “The Obama mont to California – where conadministration’s mind-melting refusal to acknowledge the servative speakers were blocked attack was anti-Jewish bespoke its larger policy of denying from addressing students by that Jews are specifically targeted for annihilation by Islamic rioting students who burned terrorists. The implications of the policy of denial for the safety buildings and assaulted their of Jews throughout the world, including in the US, were selffellow students who wished to evident.” attend the lectures – were Antifa productions. And Antifa’s operations go well beyond the walls of campuses. As Beinart notes, it was Antifa rioters who physically assaulted Trump supporters as they walked to their cars at the end of a Trump rally in San Jose, California, last summer. The purpose of Antifa’s violence is not merely to deny freedom of speech to those whose positions it opposes. It is also to prevent normal relations between Democrats and Republicans and between progressives and conservatives. Caroline Glick writes: President Donald Trump’s remarks last Hence, as Beinart noted, this Tuesday at his Trump Tower press conference where he claimed past April, Antifa threatened that only some of the people participating in the protest were to use physical violence against white supremacists and the rest were just there to protect a participants in Portland, Oremonument, were hurtful gon’s annual Rose Festival parade where the local Republican Party was, as usual, scheduled to march along with their Democratic counterparts. The event, which has taken place annually since 1907, was canceled. Antifa is problematic for American Jews specifically because it operates in a coalition of far-left groups that all hate Israel and believe that just as Republicans and conservatives should be banned from participating in public life, so American Jews who support Israel should be silenced. All of its coalition partners support the destruction of The cover story of the September issue of The Atlantic was written Israel and castigate the Jewish by Peter Beinart, one of the stars of the American Jewish Left. It state as criminal. All bar Jews was inconveniently titled, “The rise of the violent Left.” Beinart’s who support Israel – or even article chronicled the violence and lawlessness of Antifa, the radical group that organized the counterprotest in Charlottesville. are proud of their Jewish identity – from participating in their Antifa is a group of radical goons who stand behind the violence that has plagued US college campuses for the past several years. events. Hence, Linda Sarsour, the Obama’s diffident response to His real offense was his insis- BDS leader who was elevated anti-Jewish violence, has been tence that the counterprotest- to the top of the US feminist leading the charge against ers – the ones Goldberg and his movement when she served as colleagues liken to World War co-chairwoman of the WomTrump. Among other things, Gold- II partisans and Allied forces – en’s March against Trump, inberg likened the counterpro- were also violent. See Trump and the Jews , page 37 And yet they were. And testers at Charlottesville to the in the US, were self-evident. And yet, the American Jewish community preferred to ignore the whole thing. Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama’s favored Jewish journalist, tweeted, “FWIW [for what it’s worth], the Obama Administration has been pretty clear in its condemnations of European antisemitism over time.” Today, the same Goldberg who underplayed and denied what can at best be called

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Charlottesville: A Riot With An Unwelcome Lesson By: Wesley Pruden

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he media mob wasted no time in descending on Charlottesville, and the first order of business was to exploit the bigotry, tragedy and evil to make it the work of the Republicans, conservatives, and above all, Donald Trump. This has been a project years in the making. Shooting congressmen by a crazed Democratic liberal is reduced to a footnote in accounts of the shooting, and shoved down the memory hole to be forgotten in a day or so. But we can be sure the Charlottesville riot will be endlessly exploited over the next several days and weeks as the white folks’ equivalent of the radical Muslim massacres of Paris, Orlando and San Bernardino. The counterdemonstrators to a white nationalist rally showed up spoiling for a fight, but that does not excuse the rally organizers for what happened, including the assault by a particularly thuggish assassin driving a car into the crowd. They were finally denounced by the president as the “thugs” — the president’s word — they are.

Shooting congressmen by a crazed Democratic liberal is reduced to a footnote in accounts of the shooting, and shoved down the memory hole to be forgotten in a day or so.

And it’s true that Mr. Trump, whose tweets are not always calibrated to a presidential standard, should have used language making it clear to the densest among us in his first reaction to the riot that he was not excluding the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis or white nationalists from his description of “evil.”

and the media were waiting to pick it apart and find it wanting. He could never say it strong enough. Indeed, in the revised remarks distributed by the White House on Sunday an observant critic would note that he did not spell out “Ku Klux Klan,” perhaps in the hope that many people would not know what the initials

Martin Luther King’s dream of a day when a man will be judged not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character, has been relegated to the dustbin of discarded ideals by a modern culture that demands that identity politics dice and slice Americans by race, ethnicity, region, gender (even sex) and religious faith

He finally said explicitly what he had made clear enough on Saturday. He “includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazis and all extremist groups” in his remarks excoriating, denouncing, censuring, blaming, upbraiding, and knocking the evildoers. (Should we get a bigger thesaurus?) But whatever this president would say, his partisan critics

KKK actually stand for. Even his adjective “evil” has 27 synonyms in one thesaurus. Why did he not use all of them? What kind of dog could miss that missing whistle? Martin Luther King’s dream of a day when a man will be judged not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character, has been relegated to the dustbin of discarded ideals by a modern

culture that demands that identity politics dice and slice Americans by race, ethnicity, region, gender (even sex) and religious faith. “Diversity” is all in allocating jobs, college admissions, even pay. Merit and performance on the job dare not speak its name. “A politics fixated on indelible differences will inevitably lead

politics has a problem.” Bernie Sanders was the Democratic politician who learned that painful lesson when he thought he was making the uncontroversial point that all lives do, indeed, matter. Who could argue with that? He soon learned, and a day later apologized with a full grovel, and would have tugged a

Soon all the statuary of Robert E. Lee, recognized by history and his military peers as America’s greatest soldier, will have been pulled down to become but chips and chunks of litter across a broken land, replaced by sordid icons of a sordid culture. Still the politically pious will demand satisfaction, but satisfaction always just out of reach.

to resentments that extremists can exploit in ugly ways on the right and left,” observes The Wall Street Journal. “The extremists were on the right in Charlottesville, but there have been examples on the left in Berkeley, Oakland and numerous college campuses. When Democratic politicians can’t even say that ‘all lives matter’ without being denounced as bigots, American

forelock if he still had one. That’s why this chaos threatens never to end for as long as the generations alive today survive. Calls for “unity” sound good and make those calling for “unity” feel good about themselves if not about anyone else. But extremists define “unity” to mean unity as when dissenters and naysayers are clubbed into bloody submission. We’ve been diced and sliced

“A politics fixated on indelible differences will inevitably lead to resentments that extremists can exploit in ugly ways on the right and left,” observes The Wall Street Journal beyond unity and one day soon the Middle East, with its cultural and religious differences and a hundred reasons to fight and kill each other over arcane points of theology that outsiders cannot fathom, will have nothing on America, where the liberals and the left demand unanimous submission as the price of unity. Soon all the statuary of Robert E. Lee, recognized by history and his military peers as America’s greatest soldier, will have been pulled down to become but chips and chunks of litter across a broken land, replaced by sordid icons of a sordid culture. Still the politically pious will demand satisfaction, but satisfaction always just out of reach. The ultimate lesson of Charlottesville and all the assaults on decency from every “side” is that we are the inheritors of Lincoln’s exceptional nation who failed to preserve it. “A republic, sir,” Benjamin Franklin replied when a bystander in Philadelphia asked him what the Founding Fathers had bequeathed on that first Fourth of July. “If you can keep it.” (WASHINGTON TIMES) Wesley Pruden is editor in chief emeritus of The Times.

Accelerating Chaos Within the American Jewish Community By: Isi Liebler

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he chaos enveloping American Jewry since the election of President Donald Trump—which many predicted would be merely a passing phenomenon—has in fact increased exponentially over the past few months. It is concurrent with the turmoil prevailing at all levels inside the new administration. However, it is precisely at such a turbulent time, when the leadership of American Jewry should assume a stabilizing role that it seems to be losing control. Many Jewish leaders concentrate more on vilifying Trump than securing and promoting their communal interests. They unashamedly abuse their Jewish institutional roles to promote far-left and liberal agendas, even labeling their opponents as anti-Semites to achieve their goals. That is not to deny that there has always been a segment of American society which was fiercely racist and anti-Semitic. The shocking displays of hatred and the violence emanating from the recent national gathering of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia testify to this. And while there was violence from the “Antifa” far left elements, it is indisputable that the violence emanated from vile racists carrying Nazi flags. Vice President Mike Pence denounced the white suprema-

cists and racists but, to his discredit, Trump’s initial response was only to condemn “in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of bigotry, hatred and violence on many sides.” Without explicitly condemning the white supremacists, he was perceived as applying moral equivalence to both sides, which most Americans and Jews of all political persuasions would consider outrageous. It was only two days later that Trump belatedly explicitly denounced the racist hate groups such as White Supremacists, Neo-Nazis and KKK as criminals and thugs “repugnant to everything we hold dear.” The threats from the radical Right must not be tolerated. Yet despite the massive exposure they received, these fascist and racist groups represent a minute segment of society and their influence is marginal when compared to the leftist anti-Semites. The latter, who are vastly understated, promote the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and have transformed campuses into anti-Israel and anti-Semitic platforms. Moreover, there are Jewish community leaders who have allied themselves with far-left campaigns headed by vicious anti-Israel elements, arguing that anti-Israel agitators should not be excluded as partners in broader campaigns for social justice. There are also calls for BDS proponents and anti-Israel

Jewish groups to be included in the “big tent.” The worst organizational offender in this area is the Anti-Defamation League, which lost its credibility after Jonathan Greenblatt, a former aide to President Barack Obama, became CEO and used the or-

dence that there are threats from the Right, the ADL concentrates almost exclusively on rightwing extremists, conveying the impression that anti-Semitism primarily emanates from these quarters. The ADL even refused to break with the Black Lives Matter movement, despite the

Isi Liebler writes that the Anti-Defamation League lost its credibility after Jonathan Greenblatt, a former aide to President Barack Obama, became CEO and used the organization to promote his liberal agenda.

ganization to promote his liberal agenda. He is supported by leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements who uninhibitedly pursue partisan positions, as though their followers were all anti-Trump zealots. Their toleration of leftist anti-Israel agitators is frequently accompanied by public criticism of Israeli policies. Although the racist demonstration in Charlottesville is evi-

rabidly anti-Israel clauses in its objectives, alleging that the offending clauses were inserted by a small minority. The ADL also blamed Trump’s immigration policies and indifference to racists for the surge of bomb threats against Jewish institutions. Yet when it transpired that the threats originated from an American leftist and a mentally unstable Israeli, the ADL did not rescind its accu-

sations. It continuously understates and fails to protest the growing numbers of anti-Israel elements who now thrive within the left-wing ranks of the Democratic Party and are dominant on many campuses. An extreme example of anti-Semitism clearly not emanating from the white-supremacist Right was the case of American imam, Ammar Shahin, who, in a sermon delivered at the Islamic Center of Davis in California on July 21, called for the annihilation of the Jewish people and “the liberation of Al-Aqsa mosque” from “the filth of the Jews.” He described Jews as “wicked” and said, “O Allah, destroy them and do not spare their young or elderly. … O Allah, turn Jerusalem and Palestine into a graveyard for Jews.” He made similar outrageous remarks on other occasions. After the media quoted him, there were cries of outrage and calls for his dismissal. Under pressure, the imam conceded, “I said things that were hurtful to Jews. This was unacceptable. ... I am deeply sorry for the pain inflicted. The last thing that I would do is intentionally hurt anyone, Muslim, Jewish or otherwise. It is not in my heart.” The imam, however, did not retract his obscene remarks. The ADL, which has been smearing conservatives as anti-Semites, failed to call for the ouster of the imam or call on the authorities to prosecute him

for inciting violence. Instead, an ADL spokesman “welcomed” the “apology,” expressing “the hope that the imam will continue to learn from others about why his words were so dangerous.” Such a response from an organization whose raison d’etre is to lead the struggle against anti-Semitism was utterly pathetic and even contemptable. There are many similar examples of acceptance of “progressive” anti-Zionists and anti-Semites, such as the praise that many liberal Jews have heaped on Linda Sarsour, the Palestinian-American head of the anti-Trump Women’s March and who publicly embraced convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh, and the petition by over 200 progressive rabbis who had the chutzpah to condemn Israel for denying entry to open supporters of BDS. Sectors of the Jewish media also contribute to this atmosphere. The most extreme example was a recent article published in the left-leaning Forward by editorial columnist Steven Davidson. Davidson listed 19 people who he thought Jews should worry more about than Sarsour. Aside from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas who are listed toward the end of the article, all the others except one are Nazis or racists or right-wingSee Accelerating Chaos Within , page 37

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Literary Detective Looking for the Father She Never Knew The true story of a prolific publisher killed tragically at 33 and his daughter’s life mission to redeem his literary enterprise from oblivion By: Rachel Neiman

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top many an Israeli garden wall, you’re likely to find a stack of books placed there by someone cleaning out clutter and hoping that some lover of literature will give the books a new home. It was on such a wall that one kind soul found two books whose lurid jackets caught her eye – much as the publisher intended in the 1950s, when the books were new. That publisher was Yosef Cohen. His company, HaSifriya HaYisraelit (The Israeli Library) managed to put out about 100 titles between 1949 and 1956, before Cohen was killed in the 1956 Sinai Campaign at the age of 33. Through the magic of the Internet, the two aforementioned books were recently returned to his daughter, Dalia Cohen-Gross, professor of Hebrew linguistics at Bar-Ilan University, who has made it her life’s mission to recover as many of her father’s imprints as possible, “to commemorate him and redeem his literary enterprise

from oblivion.” “I was less than three years old when my father died,” Cohen-Gross says, adding that her mother kept none of the HaSifriya HaYisraelit books and, in fact, got rid of all mementos, aside from a box of her father’s medals. “For many years I didn’t deal with the issue of the books. But I got interested in finding out more at the age of 40, after I finished my PhD.”

“For many years I didn’t deal with the issue of the books. But I got interested in finding out more at the age of 40, after I finished my PhD.” – Cohen-Gross Cohen-Gross began combing the National Library of Israel’s card catalogues. Searching proved difficult in the 1990s because the cards weren’t listed by publisher, but later the library issued a digitized version on CD. Cohen-Gross shared the good news with her older brother that the library had nine hardcover

Books left on a wall in Jerusalem for anyone to take. Photo by Rachel Neiman

tion science and since then has located about 100 books issued under seven different imprints. The worldwide web provided books published by HaSifriya HaYisraelit and was surprised an even more surprising boon to learn from him that their fa- – her long-lost family. “My ther’s company had a paperback mother had cut all ties with the imprint called HaKoreh. “The Cohen family. Two years ago, I logo is a rooster because it’s a received an email from a womplay on the words ‘ammoperdix’ an whose father was, in fact, my [sand partridge] and ‘reader,’ uncle. She found me through the web-page I posted about my which sound alike in Hebrew.” Having found the paperbacks father. She gave me four letters in the National Library, Co- my father had written to his hen-Gross made another dis- brother in 1948 during the Incovery: “On the back page of the dependence War.” In those letters, Cohen-Gross Two of Yosef Cohen’s 1950s books. Photo: courtesy paperbacks was a list of other titles. And so, the search began discovered a young man with a distinct writing style. “He was The company published Amer- nachem Hartom; authors Yeshain earnest. ican, British, German, Italian, yahu Levit and Haim Tarsi, and French and Russian literature others. Cohen also published books by famous authors such as Gogol, Pirandello and Zola. Their under the Yuval, Barbour, Macheesy book-covers, however, kor, Dafdefet and Ma’ayanot featured images of romance and imprints. As to the range of imgangsters meant to attract busy prints, Cohen-Gross can only passers-by as HaSifriya HaYis- theorize. “It could have been raelit books were sold at news- ad-hoc, or for tax purposes.” stands and booksellers adjacent Given that almost all of the titles dealing with sex education were to the bus station. published by Ma’ayanot, Cohen-Gross agrees there might Their cheesy book-covers, have been a thematic reason for however, featured images the differences. With the outbreak of conflict of romance and gangsters in 1956, Cohen volunteered for meant to attract busy reserve duty and, tragically, was Inside the National Library in Jerusalem. Photo by Hadas Parush/ passers-by as HaSifriya killed by friendly fire at the very FLASH90 HaYisraelit books were end of the Sinai Campaign. His sold at newsstands and daughter muses, “It’s amazing “I went to the Jaffa flea mar- only 25 years old but you can booksellers adjacent to that in the short time that the ket. Used bookstores on Allen- see that he was very literate, very the bus station. publishing company existed — by Street. I sat on warehouse well-read.” six or seven years — he was able Born in 1923 in Alexandria, floors and went through boxes. The covers belied the books’ to publish so much. He was only I went down to the old Central Egypt, to a family whose roots Bus Station area where his office went back generations to Je- highbrow contents, as did Co- 33 years old when he died.” Cohen-Gross is still on the and the print shop were. I went rusalem and Safed, Yosef Co- hen’s stable of translators: peoto the bindery, looking for clues. hen came to pre-state Israel in ple who went on to become well lookout for 25 to 30 titles still Book dealers also helped me – 1935. He fought in the Armored known literary figures like ac- unaccounted for. At least two they were moved by my person- Corps during the War of Inde- tress and publisher Miriam Ber- books have been discovered in pendence. After the State of Is- nstein-Cohen, who received the libraries in the United States, al story and spread the word.” As the world was going dig- rael was declared, Cohen joined Israel Prize for Theater in 1975; and she is appealing to anyone ital, Cohen-Gross decided she the Israel Air Force, and served S. Somekh, professor emeritus with information about her of modern Arab literature at Tel father’s work to contact her at needed better data-mining in the regular army until 1953. Concurrently, in 1949, Cohen Aviv University and 2005 Israel Dalia.Cohen-Gross@biu.ac.il. tools. She went back to school for a master’s degree in informa- founded HaSifriya HaYisraelit. Prize winner, Israeli thinker Me(ISRAEL 21C)

New Book Goes Behind the Scenes of Hasidic Musical Heritage By: Rabbi Jack Riemer

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ou don’t need to be a scholar of Jewish music to enjoy Velvel Pasternak’s new book, “Behind the Music: Stories, Anecdotes, Articles & Reflections.” You just need to be someone who wants to learn about the adventures of the author, a man who has done more than anyone else in our time to discover, record and transmit the treasures of Hasidic music. Velvel, as everyone calls him, tells wonderful stories about his experiences—stories that will make you laugh, but also help you learn what lies behind some of the songs you think you already know. How did Velvel get into the work of transcribing and recording Hasidic music? Once one of the children of the Bobover Rebbe came home from school singing a niggun (tune). When his father asked him where the niggun came from, the child had no idea it was his grandfather’s melody. That was the day when the Bobover Rebbe realized his family’s musical heritage needed to be recorded or it would disappear, and Velvel got the job. Some of Velvel’s stories are hilarious. Once, the head honcho of the Hasidim told him “not to make with his hands” since the Hasidim would sing with their eyes closed anyway, because they were more concerned with expressing the melody’s spiritual meaning than with paying attention to Velvel. He also told Velvel that the musicians he had hired to accompany the Hasidim would not be necessary, since the Hasidim would pay no attention to them. Velvel realized he was arguing with an irresistible force, so he let the Hasidim

sing without trying to conduct them and dubbed in the musicians’ playing after the Hasidim left. The recording came out fine. Velvel’s first album was a bestseller—much to his surprise and to the Hasidim’s surprise. He went on to publish many more albums, rescuing treasures of Hasidic music that might otherwise have disappeared. My favorite story from the book relates to a request from Rabbi Laizer Halberstam that Velvel’s recordings be “autentic” (how the Hasidim pronounced authentic). Velvel had no idea what “autentic” meant to the the Hasidim. He gathered a crew of 15 professional cantors to be the choir. The first song he chose was “Siman Tov U’Mazel Tov,” which is sung at many Jewish weddings. He dutifully transliterated it, using the Bobover dialect to please Rabbi Halberstam, who had come along that night to make sure the recording would be “autentic.” But when the choir got to the words “yihai looney”—meaning “it will be to us” in English and more commonly pronounced by its Hebrew dialect, “yehei lanu”—they broke up in laughter and could not continue. They tried several times, but the same thing happened. Finally, the members of the choir went over to Rabbi Halberstam and tried to explain to him why they simply could not sing “looney” without laughing. Rabbi Halberstam listened politely and said, “Let me tell you a story.” He recounted how the cultural ambassador of the Ivory Coast once went to his counterpart, the cultural ambassador of Israel, and suggested they have a cultural exchange. The nations could send each other their singers and dancers, but with one condition: The Ivory

The cover of “Behind the Music: Stories, Anecdotes, Articles & Reflections,” by Velvel Pasternak. Credit: Tara Publications.

Coast’s dancers would dance naked “from here to here,” said the African nation’s envoy, drawing a line from his shoulders to his waist. The Israeli ambassador was shocked. He said, “No way! If I were to let you do that, the minister of religion would hang me from a tree, and his people would throw stones at me as they passed by!” The Israeli ambassador offered a compromise. He said, “You can wear whatever you want in your own country. But when you land at the airport

here, I will be there and I will give you shmattes (rags) that you can put on and that you can wear while you are in my country.” The Ivory Coast ambassador replied that if the dancers were to wear the shmattes, they might be able to dance well, but they would not be authentic. Then Rabbi Halberstam told the choir regarding their unwillingness to sing “yihay looney” in the Bobover pronunciation, “If you change the pronunciation of our song, it may sound nice to you, but believe me, it would not be authentic to us. And if the people of the Ivory Coast understand what is authentic, then you should too.” That ended the discussion. The cantors sang “yihay looney,” after all. The book is full of such stories. It contains fascinating material on some of the songs whose origins you think you know, but don’t. Do you know where Naomi Shemer got the idea for “Jerusalem of Gold?” Or where Naftali Herz Imber got the music for “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem? “Behind the Music” is enriched with some wonderful photographs and tells readers where to find performances of every song the author discusses on YouTube. Even if you think you already know Jewish music, this book is worthwhile for the insights it provides into the worlds of Hasidim, classic Jewish cantorial music and Yiddish theater. And perhaps most importantly, you’ll get to know Velvel, the man who recorded a heritage and saved it for a new generation. (JNS.ORG) “Behind the Music: Stories, Anecdotes, Articles & Reflections;” by Velvel Pasternak; Tara Publications; May 2017; 229 pages; ISBN-10: 1495098966; ISBN-13: 978-1495098963.

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Netflix's New Documentary “Icarus” Goes Inside Russia's Olympic Cheating By: Paul Crookston

mance-enhancing drugs and took them under guidance from As Icarus begins to focus Rodchenkov; watching him carus, a new documentary on Russian athletes, we Skype with Rodchenkov and learn that the corruption on Netflix about Russian inject steroids into his buttocks doping scandals, tells a stogoes all the way up to is unlikely to strike viewers as a President Vladimir Putin ry of Olympic cheating so reason to keep watching. Howwidespread and comprehensive ever, Fogel takes his time—at that its progenitor explained 2 hours and 4 minutes, Icarus Nineteen Eighty-Four, a book how it came to be by invokruns 40 minutes longer than my he read illegally in the Soviet ing George Orwell's Nineteen documentary of reference, This Union. He had to practice douEighty-Four. blethink to maintain falsehoods for the sake of the regime—and his own safety. Holding onto faith through the practice of doublethink is intellectual but also emotional: Putin rescued him from prison to return to his craft and, in Rodchenkov's words, redeemed him. The film also explores how doublethink can infect politics anywhere. This becomes painfully clear when Rodchenkov is shown pondering the consequences of denying reality just before viewers see IOC president Thomas Bach announce a slap on the wrist for Russia. Some viewers may be reluctant to ascribe heroic motives Icarus, a new documentary on Netflix about Russian doping scandals, tells a story of Olympic Filmmaker Bryan Fogel (pictured above) set out to explore how to Rodchenkov's turn as a witcheating so widespread and comprehensive that its progenitor explained how it came to be by doping affects amateur cycling and ended up sheltering the ness against the Kremlin. But invoking George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. runaway mastermind of Russia's state-run doping apparatus regimes like Putin’s Russia inRodchenkov’s testimony, foot- Is Spinal Tap—to develop what vest a great deal of energy into Icarus capitalizes on the fact replicate. Filmmaker Bryan Fogel set As Icarus begins to focus on age from the games, and digital he calls his "bromance" with controlling not only those who out to explore how doping af- that most of its viewers have prilive within them but what inforRodchenkov. fects amateur cycling and end- marily experienced the Olym- Russian athletes, we learn that models of the buildings. This helps viewers see Rod- mation escapes into the rest of Given the size and scale of ed up sheltering the runaway pics through a screen. The sight the corruption goes all the way mastermind of Russia's state- of victorious athletes on the up to President Vladimir Putin. these events, one wonders why chenkov as Fogel sees him: a the world. Rodchenkov got out, run doping apparatus. Grigo- medal stand carries associations As it turns out, the feckless IOC we spend the first third of the goofy, clever scientist caught up and, by sharing what he knows, ry Rodchenkov was both the of competition and fair play that is something of an ideal adver- film on Fogel's ill-fated attempt in intrigue controlled by men has taken the first steps toward primary operator of Russia’s the film inverts, as it does with sary for the KGB agent-turned- at a cycling documentary. not at all like him. Rodchenkov redeeming himself. clandestine system and also the much of the Olympics' imagery. strongman. It was no match for He was interested in perfor- saw himself as a character out of (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON)

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leaker who gave the New York Times and a grand jury all the dirty details about the effort. Icarus shows how Rodchenkov ran Russia's "anti-doping" program as the perfect scam to beat every test the International Olympic Committee (IOC) could throw at him—but then fled Russia when it all started to collapse.

Seen in a documentary about many recent champions cheating, the ceremonies, chiseled athletes, and spiffy uniforms have the opposite resonance compared to the initial television broadcast. This familiarity of the Olympic viewing experience gives Icarus a quality that written accounts of Russia’s sundry misdeeds can’t quite

Rodchenkov's chemistry and the FSB's muscle—certainly not on the Russians' home turf at the Sochi Olympic Games in 2014—and there’s a grim satisfaction in seeing how Russia orchestrated its record medal haul by seizing incriminating urine samples from the Olympic lab. It’s also an impressive bit of filmmaking, combining

Jewish Comic & Hollywood Survivor, Jerry Lewis, Dies at 91 By: Christy Lemire

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erry Lewis epitomized what it meant to be a survivor in Hollywood. Through ups and downs in popularity, health troubles and weight fluctuations and the sorts of seismic shifts that take place over decades in the entertainment industry, Lewis always figured out a way to battle back, to reinvent himself, to stay relevant. It's what enduring stars know how to do instinctively; perhaps it's that very drive that makes them stars in the first place. Through it all, Lewis remained the consummate showman, and his distinctive comic legacy surely will continue to survive for decades to come. The manic, rubber-faced performer who jumped and hollered to fame in a stage, radio, TV and film partnership with Dean Martin, settled to become a self-conscious auteur in movies he wrote, produced and directed, and found new fame as the tireless, teary host of the annual muscular dystrophy telethons, died Sunday at home in Las Vegas surrounded by family. He was 91. Lewis, who had battled the lung disease pulmonary fibrosis, heart issues, a debilitating back problem and addiction to pain killers, died of natural causes, according to his publicist. His career spanned the history of show business in the 20th century, beginning in his parents' vaudeville act at the age of 5. He was just 20 when his pairing with Martin made them international stars. After their cold parting in

telecast, an honor he said "touches my heart and the very depth of my soul." But the telethon was also criticized for being mawkish and exploitative of children, known as "Jerry's Kids." A 1960s muscular dystrophy poster boy, Mike Ervin, later made a documentary called "The Kids Are All Alright," in which he alleged that

1956, Lewis made such favorites as "The Bellboy" and "The Nutty Professor," was featured in Martin Scorsese's "The King of Comedy" and appeared as himself in Billy Crystal's "Mr. Saturday Night." In the 1990s, he scored a stage comeback as the devil in the Broadway revival of "Damn Yankees."

is, at 90 and promoting the film "Max Rose," said he still woke up every day at 4:30 or 5 in the morning to write, and he had a handful of standup shows on the schedule. Although a clear influence on Jim Carrey and other slapstick performers, later generations knew Lewis primarily

Jerry Lewis as a young man. He was born and raised in New Jersey

Jerry Lewis and his partner Dean Martin. The pair split in 1956 to go their own ways

In his 80s, he was still traveling the world, planning to remake some of his earlier movies and working on a stage version of "The Nutty Professor." He was so active he would sometimes forget the basics, like eating, his associates would recall. In 2012, Lewis missed an awards ceremony thrown by his beloved Friars Club because his blood sugar dropped from lack of food and he had to spend the night in the hospital. In an interview with The Associated Press from 2016, Lew-

as the ringmaster of the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association, joking and reminiscing and introducing guests, sharing stories about ailing kids and concluding with his personal anthem, the ballad "You'll Never Walk Alone." From the 1960s onward, the telethons raised about $1.5 billion. He announced in 2011 that he would step down as host, but he would remain chairman of the association he joined some 60 years ago. His fundraising efforts won him the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2009 Oscar

Lewis and the Muscular Dystrophy Association had treated him and others as objects of pity rather than real people. Responded Lewis: "You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!" He was the classic funnyman who longed to play "Hamlet." He cried as hard as he laughed. He sassed and snarled at critics and interviewers who displeased him. He pontificated on talk shows, lectured to college students and compiled his thoughts in the 1971 book "The Total

Film-Maker." "I believe, in my own way, that I say something on film. I'm getting to those who probably don't have the mentality to understand what ... 'A Man for All Seasons' is all about, plus many who did understand it," he wrote. "I am not ashamed or embarrassed at how seemingly trite or saccha-

Jerry Lewis in his later years

rine something in my films will sound. I really do make films for my great-great-grandchildren and not for my fellows at the Screen Directors Guild or for the critics." In his early movies, he played the kind of fellows who would have had no idea what the elder Lewis was talking about: loose-limbed, buck-toothed, overgrown adolescents, trouble-prone and inclined to wail when beset by enemies. American critics recognized the comedian's popular appeal but not his pretensions of higher art. Not the French. Writing in Paris'

Le Monde newspaper, Jacques Siclier praised Lewis' "apish allure, his conduct of a child, his grimaces, his contortions, his maladjustment to the world, his morbid fear of women, his way of disturbing order everywhere he appeared." The French government awarded Lewis the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1983 and Commander of Arts and Letters the following year. Film critic Andrew Sarris observed: "The fact that Lewis lacks verbal wit on the screen doesn't particularly bother the French." Lewis had teamed up with Martin after World War II, and their radio and stage antics delighted audiences, although not immediately. Their debut, in 1946 at Atlantic City's 500 Club, was a bust. Warned by owner "Skinny" D'Amato that they might be fired, Martin and Lewis tossed the script and improvised their way into history. New York columnists Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan raved over the sexy singer and the berserk clown. Hollywood producer Hal Wallis saw them at New York's Copacabana and signed them to a film contract. Martin and Lewis first appeared in supporting roles in, then they began a hit series of starring vehicles: "At War With the Army," ''That's My Boy," ''Sailor Beware," ''Jumping Jacks," ''The Stooge," ''The Caddy," ''Money From Home," ''Living It Up," ''Three Ring Circus," ''You're Never Too Young," ''Artists and Models," ''Pardners," ''Hollywood or Bust." (SP)

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Vehicular Jihad Comes to Barcelona Meanwhile, on CNN, the denial and willful ignorance continue By: Robert Spencer

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So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Em-

n Spain last Thursday, a man drove a truck into a crowd at Barcelona’s popular Costa Dorada area, killing at least 14 and injuring 100. On CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked, “There will be questions about copycats. Questions, if what happened in Barcelona, was at all, at all, a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.” No, Wolf, it was a phenomenon with which you and your CNN colleagues have only a glancing familiarity: Islamic jihad. Of course Wolf Blitzer immediately reached for a connection with Charlottesville, because he most likely doesn’t believe that there are Islamic jihadis at all, just mentally ill lone wolves driven to violence by “Islamophobia.” Jihad doesn’t The man who rented the van fit his network’s narrative. And used in the Barcelona attack vehicular jihad? Wolf has never was a Muslim from Morocco heard of such a thing. named Driss Oukabier, who Last June, the Islamic State was arrested, while one of published a poster depicting his apparent accomplices an SUV driving over a heap was killed in a gun battle with of skulls and bearing the leg- police. end “Run Over Them Without bitter their lives for them and Mercy.” And the Islamic State issued busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving this call in September 2014:

American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islam-

head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him…. Many Muslims in the West have heeded this call. The man who rented the van used in the Barcelona attack was a Muslim from Morocco named Driss Ou-

On CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked, “There will be questions about copycats. Questions, if what happened in Barcelona, was at all, at all, a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.”

ic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his

kabier, who was arrested, while one of his apparent accomplices was killed in a gun battle with police. This could have been just one part of a much larger jihad plot, as Spanish police now believe that a massive explosion

in a house in Alcanar, 120 miles south of Barcelona, was also linked to the Barcelona jihad plotters. There have been many other vehicular jihad attacks. Just last week in France, a Muslim named Hamou Bachirhit six French soldiers with his car in Levallois-Perret, where the

and started stabbing people. We have seen several other vehicular jihadis get out of the car after they plowed into pedestrians, and start stabbing people. In June 2015, a Muslim in Austria drove his car into a crowd, killing three, and then got out and stabbed passersby. Then in November 2016, a Muslim student

In Spain last Thursday, a man drove a truck into a crowd at Barcelona’s popular Costa Dorada area, killing at least 14 and injuring 100

headquarters of the DGSI (General Directorate for Internal Security), the country’s primary counter-terrorism intelligence agency, are located. In June, a Muslim drove his car into a crowd on the London Bridge and then jumped out

at Ohio State University named Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove his car into a crowd, then got out and stabbed several others. There have been many others in 2016 and this year: in Nice, See Vehicular Jihad Comes , page 38

Trump Won’t Let Fascistic “Alt-Left” Off the Hook for Charlottesville Rioting By: Matthew Vadum

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resident Trump’s politically incorrect insistence on blaming radical leftists for their rightful share of the violence last Saturday in Charlottesville is being met with predictable howls of outrage by the Left and the media. At the protest, alleged neo-Nazi James Alex Fields, used his car to plow into a crowd of counter-protesters not far from the scheduled rally at Emancipation Park. About 20 people were injured, one of them fatally. Paralegal Heather D. Heyer, 32, was killed. But left-wingers who descended in force on the rally site attacked people with bats and clubs, a fact President Trump stubbornly clings to despite intense pressure from the media and the rest of the Left to drop it. The people holding the “Unite the Right” rally may not all have been upstanding citizens, but holding and expressing views that are unpopular, even widely considered to be morally repugnant, is no reason to deprive those people of the right to express themselves in public. President Trump has repeatedly denounced the right-wing extremists who organized the rally but at the same time he has stood up for their First Amendment rights. Trump stirred up a hornet’s nest during a press

conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan last week when he was pushed by reporters to lay the blame for the violence in the Virginia college town exclusively on the “alt-right” and right-wing extremists such as neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and skinheads. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) defended the violent leftwing fascists he euphemistically describes as counter-protesters. "The violence in Charlottesville was not caused by the 'alt-left,' (whatever that may be)," the failed 2016 Democratic president contender tweeted. "It was caused by Neo-Nazis and white supremacists." That neo-Nazis and white-supremacists were involved in the melees is true, but Sanders isn’t telling the whole story. President Trump filled in the blanks. “What about the alt-left that came charging at the alt-right?” Trump said to journalists who sputtered with rage at his impudent refusal to toe the line. “Do they have any semblance of guilt?” The president continued: Let me ask you this. What about the fact they came charging — that they came charging, with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do. So, you know, as far as I'm concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day. Wait a minute. I'm

not finished. I'm not finished, fake news. That was a horrible day. “Is it the same level as neo-Nazis?” a reporter asked. “I will tell you something,” Trump said. I watched those very closely, much more closely than you

by conservatives such as WND’s Joseph Farah and radio and TV host Sean Hannity, an ardent defender of President Trump. Both alt- phrases aren’t easily defined and are hurled as epithets, though alt-left seems to have even less of a fixed meaning than alt-right.

“What about the alt-left that came charging at the alt-right?” Trump said to journalists who sputtered with rage at his impudent refusal to toe the line. “Do they have any semblance of guilt?”

people watched it, and you have - You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now. You had a group, you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent. So what is the alt-left? Alt-left, a play on the phrase alt-right, has been popularized

Academic Paul Gottfried is credited with coining the term "alt-right" in 2008. He wrote that he gave a speech in which he called “for an ‘Alternative Right’ to combat the high degree of neoconservative control over the intellectual Right.” Left-wingers say alt-right refers exclusively to white-nationalists, white-supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the like. The alt-left, which is “racist to its core,” is “a movement of pho-

ny self-righteousness and ‘compassion’ that it uses to gain power,” Farah has written. “It will do anything and say anything to achieve its goal of hammerlock control not only of government, but every significant cultural institution – from schools, universities and the press to churches, foundations, Hollywood and unions.” Whether it flowed from the alt-left or the plain old Left, there was a great deal of leftist violence at the site of the “Unite the Right” rally, as John Hinderaker has documented. Take a moment and drink in the indignant tone of an Associated Press report on the Trump Tower presser. The AP piece slams the president for daring to say “there is blame on both sides” for civil unrest in the town in Albemarle County where Thomas Jefferson lived. Trump is “appearing to once again equate the actions of white supremacist groups and those protesting them.” Well, duh. The battle in Charlottesville was largely between right-wing fascists and the leftwing fascist poseurs of antifa who try unconvincingly to pretend they’re not fascists. “There is no inconsistency between neo-Nazis being criminals and thugs and antifas sharing the blame for the violence in Charlottesville,” points out Hinderaker. “They are criminals and thugs, too.”

But “[i]n the AP’s telling, the antifas were just ‘protesting’ the white supremacists. No mention of fighting, no reference to baseball bats.” He adds, “Who, exactly, brings bats and clubs to a demonstration?” The AP wants us to believe that Trump’s statements were a disaster. His aides “stood in silence,” John Kelly “crossed his arms and stared down at his shoes,” Sarah Sanders “looked around the room trying to make eye contact with other senior aides.” And “[o]ne young staffer stood with her mouth agape.” The AP never questions, however, that what Trump said was true. In fact, it was indisputable. The antifas, a fascist group that has also rioted at Berkeley, Seattle and other places, typically wears black clothes and masks, arms its members with baseball bats, ax handles and 2x4s, and often attacks random people on the street. Its behavior in Charlottesville was not much better than usual. New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg tweeted, “The hard left seemed as hate-filled as alt-right. I saw club-wielding ‘antifa’ beating white nationalists being led out of the park.” That a New York Times reporter finally recognized how hateful and destructive the “hard left” can be ought to warm every patriotic American heart. It’s not much, but it’s a start. (FRONT PAGE MAG)

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Police search a Jewish Community Center after a bomb threat was reported in the Rochester suburb of Brighton, New York, U.S., March 7, 2017.

New York gets tougher on community center bomb threats (VIN) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law new penalties for those who make bomb threats against community centers. The Democratic governor approved the legislation Monday. It was passed by the state Legislature earlier this year in response to a string of bomb threats called into Jewish Community Centers across the country. Citing those bomb threats and recent violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, Cuomo said it is vital for New York to stand against hate crimes. “These despicable acts spread fear and terror across entire communities, and by signing this measure, we will give law enforcement more tools to prosecute hatemongers and treat these crimes with the seriousness they deserve,” Cuomo said in a statement announcing the signing of the bill. “The horrific events in Charlottesville this weekend demonstrate that now, more than ever, we must stand united against bias and hate in all of its forms.” The new law specifically adds “community centers” to a list of places covered by an existing statute setting penalties for bomb threats that already singled out locations such as schools and transportation facilities. The change ensures that someone convicted of making a bomb threat against a community center can, at minimum, face a sentence of up to a year in jail. Cuomo says the change will help prosecute those seeking to “spread fear and terror.”

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One under arrest in “It’s shocking and it’s particu- gram that seeks to promote culturAfter Trump was elected pres- month for continued discussions fatal Brooklyn stabbing ident Nov. 8, security around the in renewed U.S.-led peace efforts. larly shocking for us in the Jewish al understanding. (VIN) A 41-year-old man is under arrest in last night’s fatal stabbing in Brooklyn that took the life of a 23-year-old Jewish man, thanks to quick work by detectives at the NYPD’s 63rd Precinct. According to reports on ABC News (http://7ny.tv/2fFQm7e), eyewitness interviews helped police identify Jems John Paul as a person of interest in the dispute over a parking spot on E. 73d Street in Bergen Beach that took the life of Omari Dahan. Police placed a travel alert on Paul who was picked up at the airport by detectives as he tried to catch a Jet Blue flight to Haiti. Paul was positively identified in a lineup and is expected to face charges in the incident. Police are continuing their investigation and hoping to locate the second man who took part in the fatal assault. Police said that Dahan’s older brother came home to find his driveway blocked by another vehicle and started honking his horn repeatedly. When the driver of the car emerged from a nearby house, Dahan began screaming and things quickly turned ugly. Eyewitness told CBS News (http://cbsloc.al/2hYlfEJ) that the older Dahan was extremely agitated and that after going into the house to ask his brother Omari for help, he returned with a child safety gate, hitting the driver of the parked car in the head with the gate. As previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2fF7aLJ) a full scale fight emerged with one of the men pulling a knife. The two unidentified men fled the scene after stabbing Omari Dahan in the chest and slashing his brother in the arm.

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 NYC taxi driver thought to his NY home to be resting for 18 (VIN) Thousands of protesters hours was dead and heavy security were ready to

(VIN) A New York City taxi driver who appeared to be resting was actually dead in his parked vehicle for about 18 hours. The New York Times says 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 from his garage. At around the same time a passer-by noticed the driver hadn’t moved and called 911. The SoHo neighborhood where the driver was found bustles with foot traffic, but only one person sought help. Other taxi drivers came and went without realizing something was wrong.

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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.

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.

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

“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.

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 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 pro-

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. “Racism is evil—and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including KKK, neo-Nazis, white suprem-

AUGUST 25, 2017 acists, 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.

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.

The Jewish Voice trip to Latin America next month, which would make him the first sitting Israeli head of state to visit 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 INTERNATIONAL offered by the low-cost European Netanyahu planning carrier to Tel Aviv and Eilat. Tickto become first Israeli ets for the new flights are already prime minister to on sale. visit Latin America “Today’s announcement is fur(JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minis- ther underlining WIZZ’s committer Benjamin Netanyahu is report- ment to the Israeli market and its edly planning to make a historic 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.

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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.

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 emergency humanitarian aid to Sierra Leone following a deadly flood and landslide that has killed hundreds. “The prime minister has ordered the Foreign Ministry to extend 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.

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. Jerusalem Light “Making Ilya’s dream of becomRail security guard ing a police officer for a day come wounded in Palestinian true was important to us, and reterrorist stabbing spree flects our strong ties to the com(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to munity,” Shoshan said. Cohen said he was “the hapJNS.org) A Jerusalem Light Rail security guard was lightly wound- piest guy in the world, after they ed in Jerusalem Saturday by a made my dream come true.” female Palestinian terrorist who Israel, Jordan, PA went on a stabbing spree. to conduct firstThe wounded security guard, ever joint forest fire a 31-year-old Arab Christian resemergency drill ident of eastern Jerusalem, was evacuated to Hadassah Mount (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS. Scopus Hospital. org) Israel, Jordan and the PalesJerusalem police said the ter- tinian Authority will collaborate rorist initially arrived at the cross- this October on a large civilian exing between Haim Bar-Lev Boule- ercise aimed at improving regional vard and Sultan Suleiman Street in cooperation in fighting wildfires. Jerusalem, next to the Damascus The move is being seen as a welGate station. She quickly walked come development following the toward a haredi man, brandished recent Israeli-Arab tensions over a knife and tried to stab him sev- the Temple Mount. eral times. The haredi man esThe European Union-sponcaped and avoided injury. Yet the sored Middle East Forest Fire terrorist immediately zeroed in on drill, the first exercise of its kind, is

scheduled to take place Oct. 22-26, with the aim of improving regional and international cooperation in dealing with large fires. France, Italy, Spain, Croatia and other countries will send teams to the drill. The exercise will involve testing regional collaboration in emergency situations, including fighting simulated huge fires, carrying out search-and-rescue missions and extracting people trapped under ruins. Dozens of Israeli firefighting, search-and-rescue and medical teams from the country’s Fire and Rescue Services, the IDF Homefront Command and the Magen David Adom emergency services group will participate in the drill.

Two Israeli Arabs indicted for supporting Islamic State (JNS.org) Two Israeli-Arab brothers have been arrested and indicted for supporting the Islamic State terror group. Mahmoud Jabarin, 25, and Naim Jabarin, 20, who hail from the predominately Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, were arrested in July in a joint Israel Police and 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 photographs, videos and other Islamic State propaganda was found, in addition to a Carlo submachine gun in the attic. “The Shin Bet views Israelis who support the Islamic State organization as a serious security threat, especially those who are in contact with organization operatives and desire to fight in its ranks,” the security agency said in a statement.

Hamas says new Gaza security fence a ‘declaration of war’ (JNS.org) Hamas officials Thursday slammed Israel’s construction of a new Gaza border fence, which is aimed at thwarting the threat posed by the Palestinian terror group’s cross-border attack tunnels. “This is a declaration of war. We will not allow the occupation (Israel) to carry out its plots and 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

PAGE 25 work is tantamount to a military incursion into Gaza and Hamas will respond accordingly. We will not sit idly by and we will respond with force the likes of which Israel has never known.” The IDF is building a 37-mile fence that includes underground and underwater sections to thwart Hamas’s terror tunnels, which played a large role in the summer 2014 conflict with the terror group.

Ancient stone workshop uncovered near Israeli town where Jesus turned water into wine (JNS.org) Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a rare 2,000-yearold stone quarry and workshop located near the ancient Galilean town of Cana, which is recorded in the Christian Gospels as the place where Jesus turned water into wine. 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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Judge’s Ruling on Lawsuit Will Determine the Future of Monmouth Mall By Mark Snyder

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fter two full days in court, Superior Court Judge Lisa P. Thornton decided to hold off and not deliver her ruling on a lawsuit, which wants to overturn the zoning that is needed for the redevelopment of the Monmouth Mall, directly after closing arguments were made on Tuesday, August 15.

Referencing the actions taken by the borough to adopt the zoning ordinance, Bayer said, "The record shows that the borough engaged in a very public process, it went above and beyond what was required by law." According to App.com, “Four Eatontown residents saw it differently. Judith M. Bretzger, Sara Breslow, Evelyn A. Guerra and Barbara Deneger filed a lawsuit in Superior Court Freehold

Rendering of the Monmouth Mall redevelopment.

Thorton said she will give her opinion on the suit in writing and deliver it later in the week. Eantown’s attorney Andrew Bayer, who in his closing argument requested that lawsuit against the borough and its government be dismissed, said, "She (Thornton) didn't say when. Sometimes the court calls, sometimes the court mails it out."

last October seeking to overturn Eatontown's Ordinance 10-2016, known as the Mixed Use Regional Center Zone. The zone permits up to 700 apartments on the Monmouth Mall property and is critical to the mall's owners – Kushner Cos. and Rouse Properties – who are planning a massive redesign of the traditional shopping mall… Their lawsuit accused the bor-

ough of spot zoning – that is showing favoritism to the mall owner when the borough created the zone – and violating the Open Public Meetings Act, also known as the sunshine law, when it adopted the zone. The suit also claimed the adoption of the zone was procedurally deficient because the council didn't make a motion before voting to approve the zone at a Sept. 14, 2016, meeting.”

known as the Sunshine Law, was broken by the council when it passed the ordinance, which is a key argument for the plaintiffs. App reports, “The law is designed to ensure that decision-making government bodies conduct their businesses in public. The zoning ordinance was adopted at a public meeting in which an overflow crowd of about 50 or more people was directed to the firehouse adja-

The Monmouth Mall in Eatontown. (Photo Courtesy Kenneth Park Architects)

In his closing argument, the plaintiffs’ attorney Edward F. Linston Jr. said, "It was so obvious it (the adoption of the zone) was done to benefit the Kushner organization and no one else.” On Monday, August 14, Thornton told the plaintiffs that they had an “uphill battle” in convincing her that the Open Public Meetings Act, also

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cent to Borough Hall to watch a live feed of the meeting on a television screen after the 130-person capacity Council Chambers was filled by members of the public.” The building in which the crowd was overflowing to watch the hearing, residents say, made it very hard for the public to participate.

On Tuesday, Thornton said, "There's nothing before me that would indicate that this was anything but good government. Folks can think there is a conspiracy when the ball doesn't roll their way." Regarding the spot zoning claim, Thornton did not make it as clear which side she was on, but she did say that since the plaintiffs did not bring in an expert to testify on the issue, it

"She (Thornton) didn't say when. Sometimes the court calls, sometimes the court mails it out." ald Trump's son-in-law and his senior adviser. In February 2016, concepts for the mall’s redesign were first presented to the public by Kushner Cos. In April 2016, a zoning

Artist recreation of the new redeveloped Monmouth Mall.

would be hard to find in their favor. Regarding the new design plans for the mall, real estate developers Kushner and Rouse are planning a mixed-used retail and residential center. In 2018, is when the developers hope to start construction. Kushner Companies is owned by Jared Kushner’s family. Jared in both President Don-

change that would allow for 800 apartments and a hotel was rejected by the borough council. On September 14, 2016, the zone was rewritten and approved by the council. The new version eliminated the hotel and cut the number of permitted apartments down to 700. This past May, Rouse was brought in as a new partner on the project by Kushner Cos.

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Is it Possible to Fight Both Neo-Nazis and Left-Wing Anti-Semites? By: Jonathan S Tobin

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e live in a time when, as the U.S. State Department has noted, a “rising tide of anti-Semitism” has swept across the globe. Anti-Semitism has crept into the mainstream from the margins of society in the West, as a coalition of intellectual elites and Muslims has produced a surge of venom against Israel and Jews who identify with it. That movement has found a foothold on American campuses and among left-wing groups, resulting in Jews being stigmatized and isolated in the public square, and students being subjected to violence and intimidation. But the growth of this noxious form of hate is not what most American Jews are most worried about. Instead, it is the spectacle of neo-Nazis and their Ku Klux Klan and alt-right allies parading in Charlottesville, Va., that scares Jews the most. A reasonable argument can be put forward to assert that, even now, with far-right anti-Semites being more active than in recent memory, their left-wing counterparts pose a more serious menace to global Jewish security. But fear of the anti-Semitic right is always going to be the threat that resonates the most in the Jewish community. The thought process leading to the conclusion behind this mindset might be

by Trump’s reluctance to consistently take them on. Trump is no Neo-Nazis may seem anti-Semite and has governed scarier than Jew-haters as a staunch friend of Israel. Yet on the left, but the he has encouraged right-wing challenge for American anti-Semites by alleging a false Jews now lies in trying to moral equivalence with those rise above the partisan who oppose them, while also loyalties that can blind us signaling sympathy with the to both sides of the anticause (preserving Confederate Semitic coin. statues) that the anti-Semites and racists turned out to support in Charlottesville. promulgate anti-Semitic boycotts of Israel while encouraging intimidation and attacks against Jews. Many seem to think calling out left-wing anti-Semites in the anti-Trump resistance is not as important as opposing the administration. At the same time, conservatives need to acknowledge that speaking up about the anti-Semitic right isn’t chasing ghosts. They need to understand that calling out Trump for his encouragement of alt-right anti-Semites will neither betray Israel nor aid leftwing Jew-haters. What is needed is a Jewish community with the wisdom White supremacist protesters clash with police in Charlottesville, Neo-Nazis and the Klan, and their alt-right allies, may be small to take up the fight against hate Va., Aug. 12. Credit: Evan Nesterak via Wikimedia Commons. in number and make up only an infinitesimal fraction of the and bigotry no matter its origin. coalition that elected Trump. But their impact is magnified by Until that happens, liberals and torchlight parade while chanting monizes affiliated Jews as racist Trump’s reluctance to consistently take them on conservatives alike will continue anti-Semitic slogans is chilling oppressors. Neo-Nazis may seem scarier to fail to adequately address a Liberal Jews have been slow to the form of a virulent and violent in of itself, but also because it is reminiscent of the Holocaust. respond to this threat because it alt-right movement that rejects than Jew-haters on the left, but problem that ought to transcend the challenge for American Jews politics. These thugs aren’t anything close requires them to confront erst- mainstream conservatism. Neo-Nazis and the Klan, and now lies in trying to rise above to being the threat the Nazis were while allies who are part of the (JNS.ORG) in Germany, but their brazenness Democratic Party base or groups their alt-right allies, may be small the partisan loyalties that can Jonathan S. Tobin is opinion provides a visceral shock that they view with sympathy, like in number and make up only blind us to both sides of the an- editor of JNS.org and a contribeven the most vicious and per- Black Lives Matter or organiza- an infinitesimal fraction of the ti-Semitic coin. uting writer for National Review. Liberals prefer to ignore the Follow him on Twitter at: @ haps more influential Jew-haters tions that purport to represent coalition that elected Trump. But their impact is magnified potent influence of those who jonathans_tobin. the LGBTQ community. on the left can’t provoke. debatable, but it also reflects a disturbing truth about the persistence of anti-Semitism and the failure of both liberals and conservatives to think clearly about the issue. Part of the reason why rightwing anti-Semites are scarier to American Jews is a function of imagery and historical memory. The spectacle in Charlottesville of large numbers of neo-Nazis and Klan members holding a

The increasingly central role anti-Semitic attitudes are playing on the left often flies under the flag of anti-Zionism rather than open Jew-hatred. But that is a distinction without a difference. Even in the U.S., where it is less prevalent than in Europe, this has meant boycotts and even violence, as well as inflammatory rhetoric—coming from many prominent members of the anti-Trump “resistance”—that de-

But liberals aren’t the only ones who have ignored things that didn’t fit into their worldview. Republicans have become a lockstep pro-Israel party, and the main organs of conservatism like National Review chased anti-Semites out long ago. This has led Jewish conservatives to believe the virus of right-wing anti-Semitism was dead and buried. But anti-Semitism on the right has made a comeback in

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1K People Descend on the NY Hall of Science in Queens to See the Solar Eclipse By: Joyce Vetere Milowski and Dr. Dan Miller

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t was 12 noon and the lines were around the block into the parking lot as more than one thousand New Yorkers joined by residents from Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and Westchester to experience a natural phenomena that is very rare, an almost total eclipse of the sun. According to the experts what we saw at the NY Hall of Science, located in Corona-Flushing Meadow Park in Queens, was an eclipse where the moon passed in front of the sun, blocking out about 71% of the light source from the sun. More than half the eclipse sky gazers were from the borough of Queens. Many came with family and friends to be part of the experience. Mayor DeBlasio issued a warning as did the New York City Department of Health alerting New Yorkers about looking directly into the eclipse of the sun without wearing special glasses that were made to block some of the suns dangerous eye damaging ultra-violet rays. It was very clear to those who gathered at the New York Hall of Science that they were in a perfect spot to view the eclipse. The Hall of Science, not ready for more than two hundred visitors were very surprised that so many visitors came to the eclipse party there. More than a thousand visitors showed up for the special event causing the Hall of Science to run out of special glasses early and asked that everyone who received a pair of free eclipse glasses to share them with others who were there. We spoke with Dan Wenpa, Vice President for External Affairs at the NY Hall of Science, who told the Gazette, “Today is a special day. It is the kind of special day that doesn't happen all the time. It is a day with a turnout that even overwhelmed us. These kind of moments are bigger than all of us." We met Tatiana Walker and her beautiful 2-yr old daughter overwhelms Hamilton from Corona, who thought the experience, was awesome.

Mom said< “We are here for two reasons, We’re here to check out the pre-school openings and see the solar eclipse.” Joyce Vetere, senior correspondent to the Jewish Voice NY, a former elementary school teacher and now a university staff member a LIU Post in the education department was thrilled to have an opportunity to speak with young children about the experience they were about to have. Joyce spoke with students about

Bayside resident, Ellyn Penze who attended IS 25 as a child, came alone but many different people at the event. Anna Barios from Flushing brought her son Raul (11) to see his first eclipse. Danielle Peritz came with her mother Suzanne, a stay at home mom who was just elected president of the Rocky Hill Civic Association in Bellerose, Queens.

Families flock to the New York Hall of Science in Queens to catch a chance to see the solar eclipse. Photo Credit: Dan Miller

Solar eclipse over the Statue of Liberty in New York City

the eclipse including. A six year old from Jackson Heights told Joyce,” The moon is next to the sun and blocks out the sun.” That’s great stuff coming from a 6 year old about to begin first grade in September, Sheila Dear, a science lab facilitator and teacher at Yeshiva Dalehei Torah, Rockaway, brought her two children, Moshe (13) and Riva(8) to see the eclipse. Moshe knew that the last eclipse took place 38 years ago in the United States.

The Egas family from Bayside were representing PS 31(Bayside, Queen) at Monday’s eclipse party. Marco (36) brought his two children Lyla(6), entering first grade and and Lucas(4) entering pre-k at PS 38 in Bayside. They were seen holding up the pin camera they made with the assistance of instructions handed out by Hall of Science staff members, who were on hand to assist wherever they were needed. Another Bayside family led by Patrick Brooney and his children Catherine (4) and Patrick(3) were seen borrow-

ing glasses from those who got them, so they can see the eclipse. Sarah Esse brought her two Yeshiva Har Torah students, Ede (12) and his sister Sivan(9) to join in the celebration and learn something about science. The last family we spoke with was from Sunnyside Queens. Susan Bing brought her daughter Magnolia Bing-Edwards(8) who attends a private school, the Alt School in the East Village was so excited about the who experience. The Gazette learned that eight year old Magnolia is an avid reader, as is her mother> While mom jumps for joy over the services of the Queens library system her young daughter has gained the excitement and fervor for reading. Her favorite author is none other than J.K. Rowling. Young Magnolia loves to go out and play with her friends in Sunnyside, but also loves to curl up with a Harry Potter book, written by Rowling. Corona was a community that produced many of the Hall of Science Eclipse Party guests. Elvira Giret brought her two children Briana Gonzalez and Susan Giret. They all had a ball trying to look at the eclipse with their homemade pinhole cameras. Sarah Valenzuela, a 23 year old freelance journalist, from Corona summed it all up when she told the Gazette, “this was a wonderful thing for the Hall of Science to do.” It brought family’s young and old alike together to have a common experience that most will remember for the rest of their lives. Sarah is a graduate of Syracuse University where she majored in journalism. She is a Queens girl all the way attending elementary school PS191Q, MS 172 Queens and Queens High School of Teaching. She recently moved to Queens Village and is currently testing the waters for a media outlet to offer her services. The Hall of Science is one of the hidden treasures of the Borough of Queens and should be visited by everyone with children who as adults are children at heart.

E-Z Pass – A Growing Frustration for Motorists as Complaints of “Scam” Increase By: Edwina Boulliant

tually received a letter saying his Delaware. It’s supposed to cost dispute had exceeded the agen- $12.50 round trip for her pick up and trailer, but Sarama has espite the fact that cy’s 180-day time limit. “What difference does it been charged as much as $30. E-ZPass has revolutionized millions make if it’s 180 days or 1,800 Over the last three years, she of commuters’ lives, days? Since when is there a stat- said E-ZPass has overcharged allowing them to zip through ute of limitations on doing the her $2,800. “They said it was our fault for tolls, thus saving time and mon- right thing?” he said. ey, it appears that for a growing number of motorists, this popular convenience is actually causing some costly problems as was reported back in 2011 by CBS 2’s Dana Tyler. According to her extensive research, motorists have registered complaints about standard passenger vehicles being charged the same price as tractor trailers, gates on bridges not going up after their toll was paid, and grievances about being grossly overbilled for tolls. “We’ve gotten, literally, thousands of complaints,” said Robert Sinclair of AAA New York. Despite the fact that E-ZPass has revolutionized millions of The Automobile Association commuters’ lives, allowing them to zip through tolls, thus saving of America says it’s on-going. time and money, it appears that for a growing number of “From technical problems to motorists, this popular convenience is actually causing some problems dealing with custom- costly problems er service being unresponsive to All across the Internet hun- not recognizing the fact that we overcharging, overbilling,” Sindreds of other angry E-ZPass were being overcharged,” Saraclair said. “They overcharged me three customers complain about ma said. As a result, they’ve joined times the amount that I’m ex- overcharging and other probpected to pay,” said one motorist. lems. “They are really just trying other motorists with trailers in According to the CBS report, to pick my pocket,” Michael J. a class action lawsuit against E-ZPass. “I think it’s ridicuthe motorist said he called and Moore said. “They’re charging us tractor lous what they’re doing. I think complained right after receiving his bill and E-ZPass told him to trailer prices,” Sarama said when they’re imposing a burden on expect a refund but nothing ever the CBS report was originally the people,” attorney Jeffrey Pocaro said of E-ZPass. came. He continued to call and filed in 2011. Part of the problem is differSarama and her husband even went in person and again was told a refund was coming. run a business transporting ent agencies oversee E-ZPass. It But instead of a refund he even- race horses from New Jersey to all depends on what road you

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happen to be driving on. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority handles the Verrazano Bridge. “They charged us, with fines, about $100,” Roxanne Hartman told CBS 2’s Kristine Johnson in a 2012 report.

E-ZPass issued by another state, including New York or Connecticut, and you’ll pay nearly $4 more. Sinclair of the AAA said, “It’s really unfair, we think, to motorists.” Not everyone drives the

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“Every time I’ve crossed the bridge, they’ve charged me 16 bucks,” Jeff Hutchinson said. “I got a ticket for $175,” added Robert Socolof. Motorists are strongly advised to read their statements carefully and take action on mistakes immediately. CBS 2 discovered on at least one local roadway some drivers are paying more than others. For example, if you drive the entire length of the New Jersey Turnpike – mid-day — and you have an E-ZPass that was issued in New Jersey, you will pay one price, but if you drive with an

entire stretch of the road, but even if you’re going a few exits you’ll still end up paying more than your New Jersey neighbor. “That’s not how it’s supposed to work,” Socolof said. “There’s probably a lot of people who don’t realize these things are happening,” Hartman added. Socolof said he’s so fed up with E-ZPass he’d rather sit in traffic and pay more than continue using it. He gave his E-ZPass tag back in protest. “I wait an extra four or five minutes every time I cross the bridge. I’m idling, I’m polluting,

I’m wasting my time, but I don’t trust the system,” Socolof said. Hutchinson said he feels the same way. He said he’s been charged nearly three times what he’s supposed to pay, and it’s happened more than once. “My tag has been issued only to a passenger-type vehicle, but yet they charge me a commercial rate,” Hutchinson said. It’s a common problem we hear about all the time: E-ZPass users from all across the country complain online, saying things like: * “E-ZPass has been ripping me off for years.” * “They are a bunch of crooks and run massive scams.” * “Twice it has sent me a fine notice and a photo that SHOWS my transponder in the window.” David Ben Hooren, the publisher of the Jewish Voice has recently voiced his complaints about the questionable practices of E-ZPass. “E-ZPass tells a motorist who does not have a transponder in their vehicle that they will get billed for the toll. The bill arrives and not only are you billed for the toll but you are issued a $100 fine. The worst part about it is that E-ZPass does not even inform motorists that they will be charged such a huge fine. When you try to call them to dispute a bill or contact them in any manner, it is all but impossible to reach them. Also, if you do not get payment in on time, they See E-Z Pass – A Growing , page 37

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Thinking About Taking an End of the Summer Getaway ?? – A Jewish Voice Travel Advisory By Benyamin Davidsons

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t’s no secret that Jews love to travel. We have an innate appreciation for beauty, broadmindedness for different cultures, and a knack for successful business ventures. At this time of political unrest, however, there are certain locations which would be best left unfrequented. There are plenty of stunning and exotic locations in the world, and unless there is a specific need, there is no reason to put ourselves at jeopardy. The Jewish Voice has compiled this list of places which pose unnecessary risks to travelers. -Turkey The U.S. Department of state has a Travel alert for Turkey. U.S. Citizens are warned not to travel here due to increased threats from terrorist groups particularly in the Southeast of Turkey, including Adana. Journalists and members of the media have been detained and held without access to lawyers or family members under the state of emergency. "Turkey is becoming increasingly entangled in the Syria quagmire," said Fadi Hakura, an expert on Turkey. "As Turkey becomes more involved in the implosion of Syria, we are seeing the instability there crossing over the border and impacting security." There were simultaneous suicide bombings near Istanbul’s Soccer Stadium in December 2016. In January 2017, there was a mass shooting at the Istanbul Reina nightclub. There is a general anti-American and anti-Semitic rhetoric with potential for more violence. -Iran The U.S. government also warns against traveling to Iran on account of the risk of arrest and detention for U.S. citizens, and particularly dual national Iranian-Americans. Foreigners have been detained and prevented from leaving Iran. The Iranian government does not recognize dual nationality and the U.S. government does not have diplomatic or consular relations there and cannot provide protection or consular services to U.S. citizens in Iran. -North Korea On August 2nd, the Secretary of State published an Alert restricting the use of U.S. passports to travel into, or even through North Korea effective September 1, 2017. Travel to North Korea poses a serious risk of arrest and longterm detention for U.S. citizens. Authorities in the country have imposed unduly harsh sentences for actions that would not regularly be considered crimes, such as possessing any sort of media, or carrying out religious activities. U.S. citizen detainees have been threatened with being treated with the “wartime law of the DPRK”. -Venezuela Just by watching the news, it is evident that violent protests and unrest are rampant in the Bolivarian Republic. President Nicolas Maduro has been branded a dictator. As many as 130 people have been killed this year in a wave of anti-government protests.

President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela has been branded a dictator. As many as 130 people have been killed this year in a wave of anti-government protests. According to Global Edge, Venezuela poses the highest risk in political and economic situation and the most difficult business environment

In Barcelona, a van raced down the popular tourist promenade of Las Ramblas, killing 15 and injuring over 120 civilians

In April, four people were killed and at least fifteen were injured when a man drove a truck down a busy shopping street in Stockholm

U.S. citizens are particularly vulnerable to kidnap-for-ransom attempts and violent crimes of opportunity while visiting a variety of countries including Mexico

According to Global Edge, Venezuela poses the highest risk in political and economic situation and the most difficult business environment. The business knowledge source, which rates countries from A1 to E, has rated Venezuela as E, or a very high risk. Other countries with an appalling E rating include Afghanistan, Central African Republic,

Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Zimbabwe. -The French Riviera This Mediterranean coastline on the southeast corner of France has become a hotspot for Jihadists. Last July, a terrorist with psychiatric issues drove his truck into 400 Bastille Day revelers in Nice killing 86 people. In a recent incident, a 30-year-old Muslim

The U.S. Department of state has a Travel alert for Turkey. U.S. Citizens are warned not to travel here due to increased threats from terrorist groups particularly in the Southeast of Turkey, including Adana.

This Mediterranean coastline on the southeast corner of France has become a hotspot for Jihadists. Last July, a terrorist with psychiatric issues drove his truck into 400 Bastille Day revelers in Nice killing 86 people

On June 3, eight people were killed with many more injured in a terror attack on London Bridge and in nearby Borough Market

On May 22, in Manchester a lone suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured 59 others at an Ariana Grande concert

waitress was attacked by Islamic extremists for serving alcohol on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, a fast day. American and Israeli tourists are particularly unwelcome in the sea sides of Nice and Cannes. -Other European countries Unfortunately we have already had too many tragic examples of terrorism in Europe. In Barcelona, a van raced down the pop-

ular tourist promenade of Las Ramblas, killing 15 and injuring over 120 civilians. In July, inside a Hamburg supermarket a stabber killed at least one person and wounded four others. On June 3, eight people were killed with many more injured in a terror attack on London Bridge and in nearby Borough Market. On May 22, in Manchester a lone suicide bomber killed 22

people and injured 59 others at an Ariana Grande concert. In April, four people were killed and at least fifteen were injured when a man drove a truck down a busy shopping street in Stockholm. The list continues. ISIS and Al-Qaeda have been urging their followers to use easily accessible weapons such as knives or vehicles to facilitate more attacks. European authorities continue to warn of the risk of additional terrorist plots, particularly at major events, tourist sites, restaurants, commercial centers, places of worship, and the transportation sector, and notable public venues. -Western Hemisphere Insurgent groups, armed criminal gangs, and terrorists remain active in Latin America, and the Caribbean. U.S. citizens are particularly vulnerable to kidnap-for-ransom attempts and violent crimes of opportunity while visiting a variety of countries including Mexico, Columbia, El Salvador, Haiti, and Honduras. Gang- and narcotics-related violence is of concern, and the U.S. government website has issued a travel warning for these areas. -Somalia Militants associated with both the al-Qaida, Isis, and al-Shabaab operate unhindered throughout large parts of the country. Mogadishu’s international airport complex has been repeatedly attacked with improvised vehicle bombs, mortars, and direct weapons fire. Additionally, as per the U.S. Dept of State website, U.S. citizens should even avoid cruises that sail near the coast of Somalia due to the risk of pirate attacks. Merchant vessels, fishing boats, and recreational craft all risk seizure and detention by pirates in the waters off the Horn of Africa, especially in the international waters near Somalia. -Ukraine The Department of State warns U.S. citizens to avoid all travel to Crimea and the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, even just as a connecting flight. Russian-led separatists continue to control the areas and violent clashes have resulted in over 9,000 deaths. Visiting U.S. citizens have been threatened, detained, or kidnapped for hours or days after being stopped at separatist checkpoints, and one U.S. citizen working for OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission was killed inside the non-government controlled area of Luhansk. -Zika Affected Areas The Zika virus continues to pose a threat to pregnant women, potentially causing severe birth defects to the fetus. The Centers for Disease Control and prevention have highlighted the following areas for heightened risks and travel warnings: Aruba, Barbados, Antigua, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Saint Martin, Saint Lucia, British Virgin Islands, Mexico, much of South America including Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina, and much of mid Africa including the Republic of Congo, among other neighboring areas.

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Newly Opened Dune Deck Beach Club Brings Star-Studded Crowd to Westhampton By: Lieba Nesis

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his past Sunday I had the privilege of attending an off-the-record discussion on terrorism given by Commissioner Ray Kelly at the home of Carol and Jerry Levin in Westhampton. Afterwards, I went to the only kosher bakery on Main Street in Westhampton which had a vast crowd of Orthodox Jews indulging in pizza and cookies. I overheard a couple saying that the owner, Simon, was seeking to sell the bakery and the small building attached to it for an astounding $6.5 million dollars. While I have always considered Westhampton the less affluent and trendy Hampton; it appears it is experiencing a renaissance as evidenced by the successful opening of The Dune Deck Beach Club this summer. The property was sold to Discovery Land CEO Michael Meldman in March 2015. Meld-

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man who was partners with George Clooney and Rande Gerber in Casamigos Tequila which they recently sold for $1 billion, bought the property for $19 million from Medallion Financial Corp. who purchased it for $700,000 in 2010. The new 32,141-square-foot resort features 33 two-room suites 14 of which were ready for this summer.

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Mike Meldman, George Clooney, and Rande Gerber

The suites feature two rooms, a bedroom and living room area with a full kitchen with the average size of each suite being 594 square feet. Some of the features of the property include a 60-foot long swimming pool overlooking the ocean and a kiddie pool next door. Moreover, the resort will contain a wine room, spa and fitness center, along with a tiki-bar deck. This upscale ven-

ue can be joined for the astronomical base cost of $350,000 per family. For those guests who choose to pay $1 million one of the 33 beach club suites can be accessed for a total of 28 days during July and August. These prices are over-the-top outrageous. The highly coveted membership at Southampton Bathing Corp. only requires a paltry

$30,000 initiation fee with additional annual dues of $3,000 to $5,000. While this property is more elaborate, containing eight acres on the ocean and phenomenal ocean to bay views, it is hard to justify an initiation fee more than 10 times that of Southampton's toniest club. Surprisingly, Dune Deck was recently proclaimed to be the sleeper hit of the summer

Westhampton Beach Bakery

Jewish Voice society, fashion & entertainment reporter Lieba Nesis files a live report from the newly opened Dune Deck Beach Club in Westhampton

by The New York Post-with celebrities Gayle King and Eli Manning being just a couple of the high profile attendees. How many people actually decide to become part of the million-dollar club remains to be seen. However, it is clear the formerly sleepy Westhampton is becoming a major player in the Hampton's scene.

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Menashe: The Hollywood Hasid Hasidic actor Menashe Lustig tells his unlikely story – going from grocery clerk in Borough Park to critically acclaimed actor By: Jewlarious.com Staff

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magine: you feel it deep in your soul - it’s your dream to become an actor. Now imagine: you are a Hasidic Jew who lives in the cloistered community of New Square where no one watches television or movies and most people don’t even know what an actor is. Meet Menashe Lustig: Hasidic actor. Menashe is the star of the critically acclaimed film Menashe, loosely based on his life, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and was released more broadly this summer. It has received rave reviews, garnering a 93% “fresh” score on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Not bad for a film set in Borough Park about Hasidic Jews which is in Yiddish. And not bad for its star Menashe Lustig. Ironically, Menashe Lustig’s personal story is in some ways more of a “Hollywood story” than the movie Menashe based on his life. If that makes sense. Lustig explains in a Jewlarious interview, “In the natural way, it would be very difficult to explain this, how I got into this movie. It could only be

described as hashgucha pratis (Divine intervention). Everyone has to know what his abilities are. I was born with a talent to act but I didn’t know what to do with this talent. In Hasidic circles, they have badchanim (jesters), but that’s not me. So I was always praying to God,

vised him to make some videos and put them online. He uploaded a few videos to YouTube, but in Lustig’s words, “I didn’t know how to manage things.” Enter Josh Weinstein. Weinstein is a filmmaker from New York, of documentaries primarily, who decided that he wanted

Menashe is the star of the critically acclaimed film Menashe, loosely based on his life, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and was released more broadly this summer.

asking him to help me find my way. But I didn’t want to go out from my community. I am from New Square and I like my community.” Lustig discussed his predicament with his brother in law, Hasidic musician and entertainer Lipa Shmeltzer who ad-

to make a film about the little known community in his back yard: Hasidim. He contacted Lipa Shmeltzer and through that meeting met Menashe. “He saw me acting together with Lipa,” says Lustig. “He watched the clip that I put on YouTube and found that I was very natu-

ral. He called me and asked me if I act normally. I told him that I love to act, but in my circles, people aren’t into it. So he said, how about making something for me. I said, it will never happen. I told him my story and he wanted to come to my house in New Square. We talked for hours and hours and he said he will do anything to make it kosher.”

self a Lubavitcher Hassid. “Danny told me that this could be a big Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of God’s name). You have to do it. This is an opportunity that won’t come again”. Lustig agreed. He and Weinstein began to meet for long interview sessions and Weinstein became particularly interested in a tragedy that had taken place in Menashe’s life: his wife

Menashe and Josh Weinstein

Despite his dream of becoming an actor, Menashe was still uncertain. He didn’t want to do anything that would cause discomfort to his New Square Hasidic community, or worse, portray Judaism in a negative light. That’s when he received a phone call from Danny Finkleman, a filmmaker who knew both Weinstein and Lustig, and him-

had passed away and his Rabbi had advised that his son should not move with him to New York until Menashe remarried, as the Rabbi felt that a stable family life was critical for the young boy’s development. This was the backbone that formed the story behind Menashe, the film. Three years after their initial conversations, Menashe Lust-

ig was in the audience at the Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City watching 2000 people watching him. The reception to the film has been overwhelmingly positive, perhaps most surprisingly, amongst people who are not Jewish. “At the screening in Utah,” Lustig relates, “A lady came up to me. She wasn’t Jewish. She said, ‘I am not sure what you do when you go to the mikvah, but the message I take away is that there is hope’. That’s the message of this film. She’s right because I had times when I was deep in depression. And now…I never thought one day everyone would be watching my story.” When asked if he has any advice for others who are also trying to find their way, Lustig offers the following advice. “I am not a painter, and I am not a cook. My talent is acting. I am not here to be a star; I am just here to use my talents. And that’s what everyone should do. Find your talent. Also I would tell people what my rabbi says. Whatever you do, prayer is the key. Ask the Ribbono Shel Olam (Master of the Universe). Ask him for help and daven. Tell him, ‘I am relying on you. Help me do the right thing’. You have to choose your own path. But you have to talk to God and he will help guide you.” (AISH.COM)

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Trump’s DOJ Not Trying to Stop AT&T/Time Warner Merger AT&T and DOJ "discussing merger conditions" that would let deal go forward

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Despite President Trump's promise to block AT&T's purchase of Time Warner Inc., the government's review of the merger has "reached an advanced stage" The Wall Street Journal reported.

customer data to target advertising, with antitrust officials considering whether AT&T should have to make that data "available at a reasonable cost to rivals," the report said. Senate Democrats urged the Trump administration to block the merger, saying that the combined AT&T/Time Warner control over both distribution and content "will lead to higher prices, fewer choices, and poorer quality services for Americans." Trump's campaign promise When he was campaigning for president, Trump said that AT&T/Time Warner is "a deal we

will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few." Last month, there were reports that White House officials have discussed using the merger review as "leverage" against CNN, whose news coverage has been frequently criticized by Trump. But Trump hasn't repeated his promise to block the merger since becoming president. One complication that could cause delay of the merger's approval is that the Senate has not yet confirmed Trump's nominee See Trump’s DOJ Not Trying , page 38

Chinese Fund Primavera in Talks to Acquire Ironsource for $1B By: Ellen Cans

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sraeli company IronSource has received an offer from Primavera, the Chinese fund, which manages $2.9 billion in assets. As reported by Jewish Business News, Primavera made an offer for $1 Billion and the negotiations have been ongoing for two months. The fund expected to bring one or two partners into the deal, if it should actualize. IronSource, founded in 2009, is a global digital content company backed by Carmel Ventures. It offers monetization and distribution solutions for app developers, software developers, mobile carriers, and device manufacturers. In 2013 it was listed in the Wall Street Journal "Billion Dollar Startup Club” as one of the top ‘20 hottest startups’. In 2015, it merged with Israel’s SuperSonic creating Israel’s largest Internet company in terms of revenue and value.

Carl Icahn Steps Down as Special Advisor to President Trump By: Benyamin Davidsons

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By: Jon Brodkin espite President Trump's promise to block AT&T's purchase of Time Warner Inc., the government's review of the merger has "reached an advanced stage" The Wall Street Journal reported. "The deal’s regulatory review has hit a late-stage point where AT&T lawyers are discussing merger conditions with the Justice Department," the report said, quoting people close to the situation. If the Justice Department concludes that any potential harms from the merger can be offset by conditions, then it would not sue to block the deal. "Among the topics raised in the government’s review is ensuring that AT&T doesn’t discriminate or treat channels that compete with Time Warner's content less favorably, the people close to the situation said," the Journal wrote. "For example, the government could prevent AT&T from favoring HBO over other premium-TV brands in its marketing and pricing, the people said." Merger discussions are also focusing on AT&T's control of

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Ironsource has over 700 em- Source’s shareholders are interployees, half of which are dedi- ested in cashing out. However,

n Friday August 18th, billionaire investor Carl Icahn stepped down as a special adviser to President Donald J. Trump, on deregulation reforms. Icahn wrote a letter finalizing the resignation, which he posted on his website. The timing of the resignation comes directly prior to the publishing of a critical article in The new New Yorker, focusing on how Icahn has been pushing to change part of a law that has a negative impact on one of his own oil refining company CVR Energy Inc. The magazine article details the investor’s potential conflicts of interest and even questions whether he acted illegally. Icahn has been battling criticism since March from a group of Democratic lawmakers and biofuels advocates, as per MSN. Before Trump even took office, Icahn was being warned that any position may carry a criminal penalty for him. "It appears that he may end up as a de facto special government employee. As such, he would be subject to the conflicts rules, including under 18 USC 208," said Norman Eisen, the former chief ethics lawyer to President Obama. "If so, that would make him po-

On Friday August 18th, billionaire investor Carl Icahn stepped down as a special adviser to President Donald J. Trump, on deregulation reforms. Icahn wrote a letter finalizing the resignation, which he posted on his website

tentially criminally liable if he worked on a repeal of the ethanol mandate that would boost CVR's stock price and enrich him. Of course, that's a lot of ifs, and we have to see what his actual conduct is," Icahn has repeatedly denied any conflict of interest. He said that those allegations were “absurd” and “completely ridiculous.” A passage from his letter of resignation to the President reads, “I never had a formal position with your administration nor a policymaking role. And contrary to the insinuations of a handful of your Democratic critics, I never had access to nonpublic information or profited from

my position, nor do I believe that my role presented conflicts of interest. Indeed, out of an abundance of caution, the only issues I ever discussed with you were broad matters of policy affecting the refining industry. I never sought any special benefit for any company with which I have been involved, and have only expressed views that I believed would benefit the refining industry as a whole.” Icahn’s letter continues, ”Nevertheless, I chose to end this arrangement (with your blessing) because I did not want partisan bickering about my role to in any way cloud your administration or Ms. Rao’s important work.”

Bob Stark Offers $608M to Buy Africa Israel Investments By: Ilana Siyance

A Inside Jerusalem’s new Device Lab. Photo courtesy of Intel Israel

cated to Research and Development. The company’s revenues are generated from the sale of advertising on the installation software. This is not the first time Ironsource has received offers from Chinese funds. Last year, CDH, which manages assets worth $19 billion, negotiated but a deal was not reached. Some of Iron-

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, center, and other dignitaries at the ribbon-cutting for The Device Lab. Photo courtesy of Intel Israel

an IPO on Nasdaq is not being considered because American investors are expected to balk at the areas in which the company is engaged. Also US technology companies would not be good candidates. Chinese investors present as the most likely buyers. Primavera has also recently been negotiating to acquire Netafim, the Israeli irrigation company. Last week, however, the company was sold to Mexicam, Mexican counterparts for $1.5 billion. When asked to comment on the story, CEO and majority shareholder Tomer Bar-Zeev told Israeli paper Calcalist, “How many times can you write that AeroSource is negotiating to be sold to Chinese companies? There are always calls from Chinese bodies to buy the company, and Primavera has also turned to us, but there are currently no negotiations for sale with any one.”

frica Israel Investments Ltd. (AFI Group) has received a new offer for its purchase, over the weekend. Stark Enterprises of Cleveland has submitted a proposal for $608 million or NIS 2.2-2.25 Billion, as reported by Jewish Business News. Nati and Ofer Seidoff already offered the same amount. However, Stark’s offer includes a $166 million cash component, whereas the Seidoff brothers offered $138 million in cash. Still, the brothers are willing to purchase the company without due diligence. Stark has set conditions for the deal, including due diligence, which will delay the process at least a month or two. Stark Enterprises is owned by Robert (Bob) Stark, who is a religious Jew. His net worth is roughly $3-4 billion. He is well known as one of the largest entrepreneurs in Ohio. He is also a philanthropist, known as one of the largest donors to Bar-Ilan University’s affiliate Medical school in Safed. Africa Israel is an international investment group with holdings in real estate, construction, tourism, leisure, in-

Africa Israel Investments Ltd. (AFI Group) has received a new offer for its purchase, over the weekend. Stark Enterprises of Cleveland has submitted a proposal for $608 million or NIS 2.22.25 Billion, as reported by Jewish Business News

frastructure, energy, fashion and media. Notably, the company operates 10 hotels in Israel, an amusement park in Eilat, 1,700 FINA gas stations, Gottex and Zara Israel as well as many more international holdings. Established in 1934 during the British mandate, the company’s shares are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and are an integral part of the TA-25 Index. Lev Leviev, who has been chairman of the board since 1997, is leaving AFI along with Moti Ben-Moshe who is also

retiring. The catalyst in the long term attempts to liquefy AFI has been Psagot, an investment bank and one of the biggest holders of Africa Israel bonds, who has been trying to leave Leviev with a smaller stake in the company. Another potential investor who is still negotiating to purchase Africa Israel is American Larry Meisel. There is also talk of an Eastern European investor, who has had business associations with Leviev, who may submit an offer in the coming days, as per Calcalist.

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Master of the Chefs: The Kosher Culinary World’s Unsung Hero By: Elizabeth Kratz

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o you recall what you were eating in kosher restaurants 10 years ago? Had you tried sous-vide dishes? Homemade sausage? Fresh, cured gravlax made with only salt, sugar, peppercorns and dill? Shaved black truffles on fresh pasta, tossed with roasted porcini mushrooms? Fried chicken so crisp and tender that you’d almost swear it was soaked in buttermilk?

culinary students, mentoring them with his quirky sense of humor, imbuing them with kitchen “street smarts,” and ultimately placing them in top kosher restaurants for externships and employment. If you have eaten at a highend kosher restaurant sometime during the last decade, chances are that someone working for that restaurant was a student, or a student’s student, of Chef Avram Wiseman. One of Chef Avram Wiseman’s Wiseman welcomes the first culinary creations: a filet cohort of students May 1 for of beef with Bordelaise,

Chef David Kolotkin—who runs Kaptivating Kosher, a catering company for upscale and celebrity events, and is the former executive chef at New York City’s renowned Prime Grill kosher steakhouse—calls Wiseman his “go-to guy for industry advice.”

food production, or as personal chefs and entrepreneurs. Still others are food writers, wine gurus, and hotel or banquet hall managers. “[Wiseman] is not only a great teacher in terms of teaching what he knows, but I did something totally different and

wasabi mashed potatoes, Maxim potatoes and mixed vegetables. Credit: Courtesy of Chef Avram Wiseman.

‘A walking iPhone 7’ A kosher caterer, restaurateur, banquet chef and menu consultant for two decades, Wiseman turned to teaching in 2000. At the Art Institute of New York, he trained close to 500 students in classic French culinary techniques, espousing the methods of Auguste Escoffier, the father of modern French cuisine. In 2008, he started teaching at the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts From left to right, Chef Avram Wiseman, actress Patricia Arquette and one of Wiseman’s students at the Roast restaurant (CKCA). In its second-floor outpost on Coney Island Avein New York City. Credit: Courtesy of Chef Avram Wiseman nue in Brooklyn, he worked as Not likely. It was probably a the Brooklyn-based Kosher the small school’s lead culinary burger, steak or slice of pizza, Culinary Center, which calls instructor and, by 2010, became and don’t forget that side order itself “the only kosher culinary its dean of students. He was school outside of Israel to offer known to work tirelessly, taking of sushi. Yet during the last decade, professional training in the cu- only short weekend breaks to one man’s unsung efforts have linary and pastry arts.” But un- go fishing in his beloved Atlanhad perhaps the greatest influ- til now, his far-reaching indus- tic Ocean, up until the school’s ence on shaping and growing try footprint has flown under closing in 2015 due to New York state licensing issues. the skills of kosher-observant the radar.

Several of Chef Avram Wiseman’s former students. Credit: Courtesy of Chef Avram Wiseman

“Avram Wiseman is like a walking iPhone 7—fully charged, on steroids, with every app already downloaded, full of knowledge and fun,” Kolotkin said. Wiseman has mentored hundreds of students who will, even today, stand as he enters the room and run to do his bidding, while shouting the Gordon Ramsay catchphrase, “Yes, chef!” His graduates are a veritable army of knowledgeable professionals—working in restaurants, synagogues, dormitories, catering and commercial

he supported me in that as well,” said Bracha Serle, a personal chef for a New York family and author of the She’s The Chef blog. “He’s always available for questions.” New Jersey resident Jeremy Brown is not working as a chef, but has applied lessons he gleaned from Wiseman to an entirely new field. “Chef Wiseman showed me that one should master their work skills, become good enough at it to where they can have a sense of humor and a smile, while accomplishing their

objectives in earning a livelihood,” Brown said. Esther Anzaroot, an entrepreneur from Brooklyn who owns and operates a gluten-free bakery business that sells Middle Eastern delicacies, said Wiseman “has impacted me by giving me confidence in my abilities, teaching me new techniques and always, always demanding the best out of me.” In a thank you letter sent to CKCA director Jesse Blonder after the school’s closing, a funder of several chefs’ participation in the training program wrote, “You have saved several marriages, made several others possible by allowing the man to earn an honorable living, allowed at least one widow to keep her house, reunited two families that I know of and allowed at least one woman to leave an abusive marriage. You (and of course Chef Avram!) should take great pride in your work, a pride that will last far longer than the pay you get.” “This is part of my legacy,” Wiseman said in a joint interview with The Jewish Link and JNS.org. “To be able to take a student, who hasn’t yet found a career or parnassah (livelihood), and watch him and help him as he develops marketable, valuable skills, and then to see him rent his own apartment, and watch him get married and have children, and support all of them by cooking...This is why I do this.” See Master of the Chefs , page 36

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In Vietnam, Rabbinical Students Find, Feed and Befriend Jews Inviting guests to Shabbat dinner, printing Tanyas and offering opportunities for mitzvahs By: Menachem Posner

a Jewish man from South Africa such as shopping in a large Westliving in Hanoi teaching English. ern-style store that had only hmuel Butler just re- When he moved to Vietnam, his three cars in the parking lot (and turned from Vietnam. The mother had asked him to connect about as many shoppers), but 21-year-old rabbinical stu- to Chabad, but he was so sure several hundred employees waitdent spent five weeks serv- that there was no Chabad center ing to rearrange the shelves the ing the needs of Jewish expats here that he didn’t even bother moment a product was removed and tourists, and reports that be- checking,” continues Butler. “He by shoppers. ing in the Communist nation is “like being on a different planet.” Together with 20-year-old Ari Herson, Butler spent much of his time combing the tourist-heavy parts of Hanoi, meeting Jewish men and women from all over the world. They offered them the opportunity to perform mitzvahs, and invited them to Shabbat meals and other events in the northern part of the country at Chabad of Hanoi, co-directed by Rabbi Levi and Mushky Laine. (Chabad of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City covers the south.) In describing their adventures, Butler often refers to hashgachah “Roving Rabbis” Shmuel Butler, left, and Ari Herson print copies pratit, the notion that everything of the Tanya, the foundational work of Chabad teaching, as that happens is orchestrated by part of their efforts this summer serving Jewish tourists and expats G d. in Vietnam. “There was one time that we They were also greeted by the sent off an order from Chabad’s was having a hard day and had kosher restaurant by Uber, only gone for a drive to clear his mind. jarring presence of soldiers on to remember that we forgot to He was passing by the Chabad virtually every street corner. At the infamous Hỏa Lò send the drinks. We called back House—in a small alleyway he the car—a hassle since almost almost never uses—when he saw Prison (known to Americans no one speaks English—and us outside giving the drinks to as the “Hanoi Hilton”), Butler were outside handing them to the Uber driver. For the rest of and Herson toured the pristhe driver. Suddenly, we noticed our stay, we remained connected on-turned-museum, where exa moped driver making a short and studied Torah with him on a tensive propaganda supports the Vietnamese claim that Westernregular basis.” stop right next to us. ers were treated with kindness. Discovering Israelis “We looked and saw that it was The students related many “At one point, we saw that a coua Westerner, and his face was as moments, ple was taking pictures of us,” white as sheet. Turns out he was “only-in-Vietnam”

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says Butler. “We introduced ourselves and discovered that they were Israelis who were stunned to learn about Chabad’s presence in Vietnam.” True to the moniker given to young men who participate in the Merkos Shlichus “Roving Rabbis” program, the two trekked to several other locations in Vietnam.

Tanyas all over the world. Since then, more than 6,700 editions have been printed, with thousands of people touched by the wide-reaching and never-ending publishing endeavor. The Rebbe specified that at least 100 copies should be printed wherever Jews may find themselves, and that those local Jews actually learn from the freshly

The Chabad House in Hanoi

(Photo: Chabad of Hanoi)

They took a nine-hour bus ride to Hà Giang, a province bordering China, known for its forested limestone and granite mountains. In addition to meeting Israeli tourists, the two had an important mission: to print an edition of Tanya, the foundational work of Chabad teaching, authored by the first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi. It’s a tradition that began in 1978, when the Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—called for the printing

imprinted pages. But it was more than just a learning campaign, the Rebbe explained. For if the goal was simply that everyone should study Tanya, it would have been sufficient to send copies to the Jews of each city and encourage them to study. The Rebbe said the fact that the Tanya was printed in their own hometown would encourage them to explore the text on a much deeper level. In the past few years, Butler has printed as many as 50 editions of Tanya, including six of them last summer in Jamaica.

They had taken a printer with them to Hà Giang, but it had broken. By hashgachah pratit, there was a printing shop around the corner from their accommodations, and they were in business. On their bus back to Hanoi, they were pleased to meet an Israeli tourist. After hearing why the students were there, the man gratefully took them up on their

offer to join them for Shabbat that Friday night. They also traveled to tourist-rich Hạlong Bay, listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site and included among the New7Wonders of Nature. Now back from their jaunt, the two passed on the contact information of their newfound friends to the Laines as they prepare for their next task: Butler will conclude his rabbinic studies in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Herson will do so in Morristown, N.J. (CHABAD.ORG)

The Character of Elul By: Ray Kestenbaum

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t was on Rosh Chodesh Elul some 3,328 years ago that Moshe Rabbeinu climbed Har Sinai again, carrying blank marble tablets. Again he stayed up there 40 days and 40 nights, descending at the end of Yom Kippur with the Tablets that were now inscribed by Hashem with the Ten Commandments, the fundamental laws for the B’nei Yisrael, the laws that should have governed the moral behavior of people around much of the world.

David implores, “teach me Your ways and lead me in the path of righteousness.” Elul is the month of divine mercy and forgiveness for Hashem extended His forgiveness to the B’nai Yisrael for the Chet Ha’egel, their worship of the golden calf. Elul is the month of introspection, of soul searching. It is the month of Teshuva, Tefilla and Tzedaka. In the reading of Parshat Re’eh we are introduced to Ma’aser Ani, tithes for the poor to be given to them at festival pilgrimages in Yerushalayim. . The elimination of poverty is one of the 55 mitzvot in today’s parsha. And yet, the pasuk laments, poverty will never be entirely eliminated. Elul is the month in which

we should be asking for slicha, forgiveness or pardon, from our business associates, our customers, our merchants, our competitors, even our rivals, our relatives, friends and neighbors, for the money and time we caused them to waste, for our selfishness, and for our deprecating language or worse—our deceptions. If we don’t ask them the sins and grudges will carry on into the books of memory on the Yamim Noraiim. Hashem can only forgive us for the sins of bein ahdahm laMakom, not bein ahdam lachvairo. Elul follows Av, a month of multiple tragedies and mourning. But Elul is a month of ascending from the pits of history. On the first of Elul we begin to ascend by blowing the shofar as a wake-up call to do teshuva. The Sephardim recite Slichot while in our tradition, according to Ra’amah, we begin the Slichot recitation four or five days before Rosh Hashana…usually on the Mozaei Shabbat before Rosh Hashana. Nonetheless we recite the formidable capitol chof zayin, Chapter 27 of the Tehillim— Hashem Ori v’Yishi—On Elul and parts of Tishrei through Shemini Atzeret. In the sonnet, David Hamelech implores Hashem: Achat Sha’alti me’et Hashem ohto avakesh, , “one thing that I request of Hashem,” Shifti b’vait Hashem kol yemai chayai, “that I be permitted to dwell in house of Lord all my life so that I can

stated formally in the Rosh Hashana shofar service. The word Elul originated from Akkadian. It has meant “harvest.” The Talmud says the word Elul is similar to the word for “search” in Aramaic. The Talmud states that the word Elul could be expanded from an acronym to what Shlomo Hamelech defined in Shir Hashirim as the perfect relation between Hashem and the B’nai Yisrael, namely, Ani L’Dodi v’Dodi Li… I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me. Many couples have this romantic phrase inscribed on their wedding rings. It was in Chodesh Av when two of our Batei Mikdash were destroyed, when Yerushalayim was set aflame, when there was sinat chinam in the community, when mothers cannibalized their own children. How horrible! Rav Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Lubavitcher Rebbe, wrote that Elul is a month process. At the beginning of the month we are often back to back with Hashem and with other people…and by the end of Elul we both turn around and are Rav Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Lubavitcher Rebbe, wrote that now face to face. Hester panim Elul is a month process. At the beginning of the month we are often and enmity turn to acknowlback to back with Hashem and with other people…and by the edgement, recognition and the end of Elul we both turn around and are now face to face. acceptance of new attitudes for And finally it was in Elul the birthday of the world. So both parties and hence new that the world clock started maybe someone can explain it relationships. On Elul we get another chance ticking. According to our cha- to me later. Thank you. But Teshuva, Tefillah and if we go the way of teshuva, techamim the world was created on the 25th of Elul. Therefore Tzedakah remain the necessary filla, tzedaka, Jew or Gentile. I the first day of Rosh Hashana actions of Elul even if it is first once asked Rabbi Grunblatt if behold His pleasantness and meditate in His sanctuary.” And then he says: Ahl tahster panecha memeni, “Do not hide Your face from me when things go wrong,” David implores, “teach me Your ways and lead me in the path of righteousness.”

occurred on the sixth day of creation and the first Shabbat, the 7th day of creation, took place on 2nd day of Tishrei. I never understood this calculation inasmuch the shofar service on Rosh Hashana states Hayom harat olam, today is

Elul could be expanded from an acronym to what Shlomo Hamelech defined in Shir Hashirim as the perfect relation between Hashem and the B’nai Yisrael, namely, Ani L’Dodi v’Dodi Li… Amalekites were entitled to do teshuva and if doing this would have had any meaning. He answered, “absolutely.” At the end of Devarim it declares that sons are not responsible for the sins of their fathers nor fathers for the sins of their children…that is if they express contrition and decidedly change the pattern to one of goodness and mitzvot. So it is with asking for forgiveness. Don’t be shy. I have no qualms about asking you for sl’icha. Teshuva is unbounded, unlimited. Anyone can do it if he or she is sincere. If the forgiveness is granted, even verbally, it’ll bring you to a rapprochement, to new relationships, new friendships and a higher level of existence and readiness to face Hashem in the coming Yamim Noraim. I not only forgive you and all those I wronged but wish upon you all the blessings we read in musaf: a chodesh of b’racha, sasson v’simcha, yeshua v’nechama, parnasa v’chalkala, l’chayim u’l’shalom, limchilat chet v’lislichat avon. Chodesh tov v’Shana Tova Umvorechet.

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Parshas Shoftim - Judges, Kings, Workers & Scholars By: Shlomo Katz

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abbeinu Nissim z”l (14th century; Barcelona, Spain) writes that, unlike other nations, the Jews have a dual judicial system. Every nation has laws, whose purpose is to make civilized life possible, and each nation has a king or other official who appoints judges to enforce those laws. In our parashah we read that Bnei Yisrael, too, are commanded to appoint a king. The parashah begins, however, with the command to maintain a bet din (later called a Sanhedrin) and a system of courts (independent of the king, since they are mentioned before the mitzvah to appoint a king is taught). This is a reflection of the dual legal system which the Torah contemplates. The Gemara teaches that even if a defendant is not found guilty by the Sanhedrin–which, we are taught, went to any lengths to avoid executing a criminal–the king could apply a stricter form of justice and have the defendant killed anyway, if “law and order” so required. The laws which the Sanhedrin is enjoined to enforce have a different purpose than the laws that the king enforced–to foster the spiritual growth of the Jewish people. It is clear that such is the purpose of the chukim–laws which we do not immediately understand–such as Parah Adumah and kashruth. It does not seem that “civilization” is furthered by these mitzvot. It is important to realize,

however, that even the “logical” mitzvot (e.g. honoring parents and not stealing) are intended to fulfill our spiritual, and not only our societal, needs. If such were not the case, their enforcement would be the sole province of the king, not the bet din. (Derashot Ha’Ran #11) “So that his heart does not become haughty over his brethren and not turn from the commandment right or left, so that he will prolong years over his kingdom, he and his sons amid Yisrael.” (17:20) R’ Hillel Lichtenstein z”l (rabbi of Kolomea, Galicia) writes: We learn in Pirkei Avot, “If his fear of Heaven precedes his wisdom, his wisdom will persist.” Fear of Heaven is the foundation for remembering one’s Torah studies. This may be alluded to in our verse, R’ Lichtenstein writes. Our Sages say that if one is haughty, his wisdom will be forgotten. And, there is an expression in the Gemara, “Who are royalty? Torah scholars!” Thus, our verse could be read: If one is not haughty and one does not deviate right or left from the mitzvot, i.e., he has fear of Heaven, then he and his descendants will remain royalty, i.e., Torah scholars. (Shiyarei Maskil 1:4) “According to all that you asked of Hashem, your Elokim, in Chorev on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘I can no longer hear the voice of Hashem, my Elokim, and this great eish / fire I can longer see, so that I shall not die’.” (18:16) Rabbeinu Machir z”l (Spain;

14th century) writes: It is important to understand that the Torah uses the word “eish” /

of a lion. The fire with which we are familiar obviously would not do that.

R’ Moshe Sofer z”l (1762-1839; “Chatam Sofer”; rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Pressburg, Hungary) writes: The order of these verses implies that one should first build a house, then establish a means of earning a livelihood, and then get married

“fire” to describe many different phenomena. For example, the eish that descended from Heaven to the altar must have been different from our fire, since it never went out (see Vayikra 6:6). Our Sages say that when the eish on the altar consumed the sacrifices, it took the form

Likewise, at the Giving of the Torah, an awesome fire was seen which inspired dread in those who saw it, as our verse relates. Our Sages say that this is the fire that gives life to the souls of tzadikim, as it is written (Devarim 4:4), “But you who cling to Hashem, your Elokim–you

are all alive today.” R’ Machir continues: Just as there is eish which is destructive, so there is eish which is non-destructive. The eish which Moshe Rabbeinu saw at the sneh / “Burning Bush” was of the latter type. Finally, the Talmud Yerushalmi (Shekalim 6:1) states that the Torah was given to Moshe as black eish on white eish. Therefore, writes R’ Machir, one should not wonder at the expression, “The eish of Gehinom.” [Of course, it does not refer to fire as we know it.] (Avkat Rocheil II ch. 28) R’ Yosef Gikatilla z”l (12481310; Spain; author of the kabbalistic work Sha’arei Orah) writes: Based on our verse we can understand the statement in the Pesach Haggadah, “‘With great awe’ (Devarim 26:8) – this alludes to the revelation of the Shechinah.” If the revelation at Har Sinai was so frightening to that holy and pure generation, certainly when Hashem reveals Himself to ordinary people it will cause great awe, dread and trembling. (Haggadah Shel Pesach Tzofnat Paneach) “Who is the man who has built a new house and has not inaugurated it? . . . Who is the man who has planted a vineyard and not redeemed it? . . . Who is the man who has betrothed a woman and not married her?” (20:5-7) R’ Moshe Sofer z”l (17621839; “Chatam Sofer”; rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Pressburg, Hungary) writes: The order of these verses implies that one

should first build a house, then establish a means of earning a livelihood, and then get married. However, Rambam z”l (Hil. Dei’ot 5:11) writes that one should have a means of livelihood before building a house. Commentaries explain that Rambam bases himself on the verse in the kelalot / curses (Devarim 28:30), “You will betroth a woman … ; you will build a house … ; you will plant a vineyard …” Since the first part of this verse clearly is out of order, as it places marriage before a livelihood, the rest of this verse must be out of order too. (This is because the kelalot reflect a topsy-turvy view of the world.) Therefore, Rambam infers that the correct order is livelihood-house-marriage. Chatam Sofer continues: While we now understand the source for Rambam’s ruling, this seems to contradict our own verses, which place building a house before earning a livelihood. He explains: There appears to be a disagreement between Sages of the Mishnah whether one should work for a living (Rabbi Yishmael’s opinion) or should devote all his time to Torah study (Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and Rabbi Nehorai’s opinion). In fact, Chatam Sofer writes, they cannot be arguing; after all, Rabbi Yishmael supports his view from a verse (Devarim 11:14), “You will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil.” Rather, everyone agrees that the ideal use of one’s time is to study Torah. (TORAH.ORG)

Parshas Shoftim – Overcoming Negative Traits; Spiritual Growth By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis

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he parsha opens with the words, “Judges and officers shall you appoint for yourselves in all of your gates.” (Deut. 16:17) There are many levels on which we can understand the passages of the Torah. A simple reading reveals that even thousands of years ago, in every hamlet, in every town, and in every city of Israel, there was a functioning judicial system. Judges - men of enormous integrity and moral excellence, who were not only knowledgeable of the laws of the Torah, but more importantly, lived by them, led the people in truth and sanctity. “Dodge cities”, in which anarchy reigned, were never tolerated in our history. This, in and of itself, is quite remarkable when you consider the evil and corruption

that was prevalent in those days, and which continues to plague us to this day. Only Divinely ordained laws could have endowed us with such a righteous judicial system as mandated in this parsha. On yet another level, this passage can serve as a road map for personal spiritual growth. The gates at which we must place judges and officers are our personal gates through which we receive impressions and through which we impact on others. Altogether, they number seven. They include our two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, and mouth. We have to place judges at these gates - meaning that we have to be judicious as to what we allow ourselves to see, hear, and say, and we have to have “officers” - strong convictions to enforce our decisions. Of all our gates, our lips are the most powerful our sages teach that “life

and death are in the tongue”. Therefore, nature has provided us with two gates to safeguard the tongue - our lips and our teeth. Before we speak, we must close those gates and consider

carefully whether that which we say will be helpful or damaging. Let us remember that what we do not say, we can always say later, but that which escapes our lips, we cannot retrieve.

There is yet another interpretation of this passage. Before judging others, we should judge ourselves. People have a tendency to overlook their own foibles while demanding perfection of their fellow man. Therefore, if we place judges at our personal gates, then we will succeed in overcoming our negative traits, and that’s one of the best ways to prepare for Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur.

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In preparation for these awesome days, twice daily, we recite Psalm 27, “L`Dovid HaShem Ori V`Yishi – HaShem is my light and my salvation.” My “light” refers to Rosh HaShana, and “my salvation” to Yom Kippur

We are now in the month of Elul, which is an acronym for "Ani L`Dodi V`Dodi Li" - "I am my beloved`s and My beloved is Mine" symbolizing the relationship between G-d and the Jewish people, built upon a covenant of eternal love. The month of Elul ushers in the High Holy Day season. As I have already mentioned, in preparation for

these awesome days, twice daily, we recite Psalm 27, “L`Dovid HaShem Ori V`Yishi – HaShem is my light and my salvation.” My “light” refers to Rosh HaShana, and “my salvation” to Yom Kippur. The last words of the psalm are“kaveh el HaShem“- “Trust in the L-rd” (pray), strengthen your heart - meaning that even if our prayers are not initially answered, we must remain steadfast and continue to pray. The shofar is blown from this day until Erev Rosh HaShana. The essential purpose of shofar blowing during this period is to awaken each and every one of us to the challenges of the High Holy Day season. Therefore, we must prepare ourselves through our time-tested weapons of tshuva, tefiloh and tzedukah repentance, prayer and charity, which G-d promises will cancel all evil decrees. (HINENI.ORG)

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Education for the 21st Century Continued from page 39 own path. While a lot of fellow students went into law or real estate — in his words, “BORING!” — Daniel now runs his own design and communications studio in Rome. His inspiration? Liceo Renzo Levi’s teachers, who “always encouraged me to do what I loved.”

An Eternal Heritage With jobs scarce and the economy struggling, not every Liceo Renzo Levi student stays in Rome. So the school works to provide connections to Jew-

ish life wherever graduates find themselves. Like other ORT schools, Liceo Renzo Levi offers a high-quality STEM* education. Shirel, then a budding researcher, seized the incredible opportunity to work with Rome’s leading scientists, including a Nobel Prize recipient, while still in high school. “Even though I was only 16, I was able to take an active role in the research,” she says. The school later helped her attend a prestigious summer science program in Israel, where she got hooked on life in the

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Jewish State. She went on to graduate from the Technion and is now a program manager for the Israeli Air Force. Though she’s now an Israeli, her heart has never left Rome. “Thanks to the education I received by my parents and school, I can proudly say I have a strong European-Jewish identity. Professionally, I owe everything to ORT.” ORT America supports the global educational network of World ORT, whose programs focused on STEM* and Jewish values in Israel, the former Soviet Union and other areas provide a solid foundation for more than 300,000 students of all ages and educators worldwide.

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“It will serve as an opportunity for [Israel] to exploit its relative advantage in developing Continued from page 42 nabis is potentially a multi-mil- medical products from medical cannabis.” lion dollar business. In keeping with the commit“The export of medical canplied by eight licensed cannabis growers producing about 10 nabis is an industry with signifi- tee’s recommendations, the Istons a year. Hundreds of other cant economic potential for the rael Police and the Ministry of potential growers have applied State of Israel and will strength- Health are preparing a plan over en Israeli agriculture,” said Fi- the next three months to begin for licenses. Exporting Israeli-grown can- nance Minister Moshe Kahlon. the export process. (ISRAEL 21C)

Cancer Research Institute Continued from page 42 nancial support I received from ICRF in the early stages of my career propelled my research forward at a critical stage and played an important role in some of the major milestones in the discovery path of the Ubiquitin System. Clearly, ICRF seeded my scientific journey. It is a debt I will probably never be able to repay. I believe there is a similar opportunity now with regard to the promising and innovative

immunotherapy studies taking place in Israel. I have never been more hopeful that the promise of living in a cancer-free world will one day be fulfilled.” Initially, The Immunotherapy Promise will fund four, two-year immunotherapy projects in Israel with additional grants made as funds are secured. CRI and ICRF are issuing a call for applications and expect the first grants to be awarded in the first quarter of 2018. “Perhaps no area of cancer re-

Nearly 4 Million Worldwide Continued from page 43 and Papua New Guinea. Asthma was an especially high burden in these countries: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Fiji, Kiribati, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, and Swaziland. Speaking in a journal commentary, Onno van Schayck, of Maastricht University in the Netherlands, said that indoor

cooking fuels — "biomass" materials, such wood and coal, for example — remain a major source of respiratory illness in poorer nations. The use of these cooking fuels "is one of the greatest causes of air pollution," he said. "Nowadays, more than half of the world's population uses biomass fuel as a primary cooking source, resulting in a high burden of morbidity

Queens Museum Does Continued from page 5 "After a productive conversation with Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, the Queens Museum will work with the Israeli Mission on the proposed commemoration of the 1947 vote," Venkataraman said by email. "We are deeply committed to all the

communities we serve through our meaningful arts programming and we are looking forward to making this a successful event." Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) also criticized the Queens Museum’s decision to cancel the event earlier on Wednesday. "Personally, I do not see how this project is ‘political.’ How is

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search has shown more promise in recent years than immunotherapy,” said ICRF president Rob Densen. “For more than 50 years, the Cancer Research Institute has been the principal nonprofit advocate and funder of immunotherapy, working across the battle lines—from basic science to drug discovery. We believe we are in the midst of a watershed era for immunotherapy and that this groundbreaking partnership has the potential to yield breakthrough research while building long-overdue appreciation and recognition for Israeli cancer research.”

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bership is believed to be rather limited and their influence even more so. Continued from page 12 Australian Jewry recorded a other rotten, irresponsible distractions laid before us by Jews 10 percent increase of anti-Seodean Resistance must dedicate and globalist elites. We aim to mitic incidents in 2016, and is himself to a higher standard of build a society by Nature’s iron demanding that the government behavior. We oppose substance laws: those of National Socialism.” take action against this worrying In reality, the group’s mem- trend. abuse, homosexuality, and all (WORLD ISRAEL NEWS)

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leading to the pool and an Otzar, an auxiliary pool in which rain water is collected for the Continued from page 12 ers during the archeological dig, Mikve, in order to make it suitwhich also entailed a ground able for ritual purification. “These discoveries add a new included a plan for the resto- penetrating radar survey. Seligman was joined by Man- dimension to the understanding ration of the ancient bathhouse by the community. According tas Daubaras of the Lithuanian of the daily lives of the Jews of to the plan, the bathhouse con- Cultural Heritage Organization Vilna, and will certainly provide sisted of two main floors, many and Prof. Richard Freund of a new focus for understanding rooms, and a large service wing. Hartford University. The two in- the lost cultural heritage of the It was also possible to identify stallations discovered are of the Jewish community of Vilna, the two installations that were built final phase of the Mikva’ot dated ‘Jerusalem of Lithuania,’” the reto the early 20th century. They searchers said. as ritual baths. This plan guided the research- have tiled walls and floors, steps (WORLD ISRAEL NEWS)

Master of the Chefs Continued from page 33

American-Israeli partnership Wiseman will lead the forthcoming Kosher Culinary Center training program along with one of his former students, Perline Dayan. Chefs David Ritter and Naomi Ross will join him as instructors, and Rabbi Zushe Yosef Blech of Monsey, N.Y., will serve

as the top kosher supervisor. In a partnership with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Israeli university will be the optional five-month destination for Kosher Culinary Center students after they complete the 216-hour culinary program in Brooklyn. “Once students arrive… they will have a five-day Birthright-style tour of Israel, with an emphasis on Bedouin and Med-

Manhattan Pop-Up Shops Continued from page 7

CBRE, jumped 89.1 percent. It is “an unsustainable situation for some tenants as rents surpassed into a longer-term deal.’” Manhattan Borough Presi- what their sales growth could dent Gale Brewer’s office count- support,” says the brokerage firm. ed 200 vacant store fronts along Manhattan vacancies have been Broadway this June. She places on the rise since, from a low of 2.5 the blame on high rents, and percent in 2012, to 3.7 percent in and mortality. To reduce house- e-commerce augmented by 2016, and now 4.2 percent in the hold air pollution, a switch to Manhattan’s pricey commer- first quarter of 2017, according to cleaner fuels would be desirable. cial rent tax. Between 2010 and Okada & Company. However, this change is not al- 2014, average asking rents in 16 A San Francisco-based website ways possible due to financial or Manhattan strips, as tracked by entitled Storefront, lists vacant logistical constraints, especially in urban slums." Interventions aimed at replacing smoke-generating cook stoves with cheap, cleaner-burnContinued from page 6 ing devices would go a long way entire building. I’ve investigated toward cutting the burden of hundreds of buildings, but never asthma and COPD worldwide, The group’s executive direc- seen a scheme as egregious and van Schayck said. tor Aaron Carr said, “I’ve seen systematic as this one.” Only a few units in its buildinstances where the landlord (HEALTHDAY NEWS) registered the units’ rents at an ings have been registered as improper amount, but I’ve never rent-stabilized by Kushner Comcommemorating a major world seen a landlord just deregulate an panies. Carr says this proves that event that took place in Queens and the UN’s establishment of one of America’s closest allies political?” said Meng, who added, "The museum and Israeli Continued from page 3 Mission already agreed to this yamin Netanyahu's son Yair, as reenactment of the UN vote, well as Republicans Overseas Isand planning for it was well Republicans and Jewish groups. rael Chairman Marc Zell, noted underway before the museum Trump denied equating the that both sides were violent and backtracked.” white supremacist and neo-Nazi deserved to be condemned. "The museum should reverse demonstrators with the victim of In a widely viewed Vice docits decision and allow the event the ramming attack Thursday. umentary about the events in to take place as scheduled." Israeli Prime Minister Bin- Charlottesville that aired on

iterranean flavors, and then go to the university in Eilat, where they will live in dormitories with a three-meal-a-day cafeteria. At the end of their time in Israel, the students will have certificates from Ben-Gurion and also the Marriott, Hyatt or wherever their externship location has been,” Wiseman explained. If the new center’s students turn out anything like Wiseman’s past pupils, the next decade should be another exciting era for kosher restaurant-goers. (JNS.ORG) storefronts allowing potential pop-ups to browse through available spots on a map, by price and square footage, similar to Airbnb or StreetEasy. The site charges a 20 percent fee, and a company rep walks a renter through the process. “We don’t see ourselves as a competitor to the traditional retail market … We just see that space is space,” said Joy Fan, Storefront’s national director. “Vacancies are unfortunate, but the shift needs to happen, so we’re really architecting the next layer of retail for the future.”

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it was not accident that others weren’t registered, and that this is a pattern his group has seen in many other Kushner properties. He added, “Rent overcharges or rent fraud is part of a systematic business model. When you see irregularities in a few buildings, that mostly likely means there are irregularities in all of their buildings.”

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HBO Tuesday, Christopher Cantwell, a vocal white supremacist, expressed disgust with Donald Trump because he “gave his daughter to a Jew.” Cantwell asked Vice News’ reporter Elspeth Reeve, “Do you think you could feel about race like I do and watch that Kushner bastard walk around with that beautiful girl?” (INN & JTA)

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Kfar Kana, Sepphoris (Tzipori) and Nazareth, “it is extremely unusual to uncover a site where Continued from page 17 Continued from page 3 in ancient Israel; two are in the such vessels were actually proGalilee and two in the Jerusalem duced,” Adler said. “Our excavations are highlighting the pivotal handled mugs and bowls in var- area. Confederate statues honorious stages of production. Although chalkstone vessels role of ritual purity observance ing Robert E. Lee and “StoneThis is the fourth chalkstone have been found at many archae- not only in Jerusalem but in far- wall” Jackson were also torn workshop of its kind discovered ological sites in Israel, including off Galilee as well.” (ISRAEL 21C) down in Baltimore last week,

ments have argued that they are national landmarks representing America’s culture and hisalong with the Confederate Sol- tory, and as such should not be diers and Sailors monument, removed. Others see nothing and the Confederate Women’s worth cherishing in the statues, monument, as the Independent only an ugly reminder of slavery and a brutal war that split noted. Those defending the monu- the United States in half.

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Accelerating Chaos Within Continued from page 20 ers whom Davidson dislikes, such as Trump’s strategist Steve Bannon. Leftist anti-Semites are given a pass. But what makes this article scandalous is that the sixth person listed is Morton Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America. Unbelievably, Klein is included with Islamist terrorists, Louis Farrakhan, David Duke and other

bracket this man with Nazis is obscene and should never have been published in a Jewish media outlet that purports to be mainstream. But other than Alan Dershowitz, who rightly described the article as the “most despicable ever in Jewish media,” there was a curtain of silence from most Jewish leaders. The editor, who, to the best of my knowledge, has yet to issue an apology for publishing this outrageous article, should either resign or be dismissed. The tension between Israel

and large segments of American Jewry was compounded when, to retain his government, Netanyahu capitulated to haredi extremist extortion and rescinded the deal with the non-Orthodox regarding their right to allow mixed services at a designated area at the Western Wall. While this is grounds for outrage by the non-Orthodox, prayer at the Western Wall has until now only attracted marginal numbers of progressives and this issue has been blown totally out of proportion. The threats to

unique restaurant overlooking the Hudson River. Their indoor dining room is exquisite, but the 45. Singer Castle outdoor dining area and tiki bar (Chippewa Bay) are not to be missed. Have a deLocated on the St Lawrence licious meal here and enjoy the River among the 1000 Islands, stunning view. Singer Castle was built in 1905 and is truly a sight to behold. 47. 76 House Boat tours are offered and 45 (Tappan) minute guided tours of the castle New York’s oldest tavern with will highlight its beautiful archi- historical ties to Benedict Arnold tecture and history. and Major John Andre, the 76 Tavern is a must when in New 46. Sunset Cove York. It’s been preserved and re(Tarrytown) stored with respect to its historSunset Cove is a beautiful, ical ties. The offer a mix of food

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anti-Semites. Whether one agrees or disagrees with Klein, he is a dedicated Zionist whose parents were Holocaust survivors. He was only included in this list because he is a strong opponent of far-left and liberal causes. His organization was a charter member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and he is highly respected in Israel. To

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44. Lyndhurst (Tarrytown) A gothic mansion overlooking the Hudson River, Lyndhurst has guided tours throughout most of the year. You can also spend an hour or so exploring the gardens. They have special programs, too, including theatrical and musical performances as well as murder mysteries.

Trump and the Jews Continued from page 19 sists that Zionists cannot be feminists. Hence Black Lives Matter, the anti-police group that is a core member of the Antifa coalition, libeled Israel in its mission statement. Israel, BLM declared, is an “apartheid” state which is carrying out a “genocide” against the Palestinians. Hence, Democratic Socialists of America, another core group in the Antifa coalition, just passed a resolution at its annual convention to officially join the BDS movement. The vote was reportedly greeted with jubilant chants of “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.” The fact is that the rhetoric of white supremacists on Israel and Jews is largely indistinguishable from the language of the far Left. Both insist that “Zionists” control the US government, media and banking system and use their control to advance the fortunes of the illegitimate “Jewish ethno-state.” David Duke, one of the lead-

ers of the white supremacists in the US, wrote a fan letter to Roger Waters, the far-left, openly antisemitic musician who leads the BDS movement. So from the American Jewish community’s perspective, there ought to be no distinction between its abhorrence and concern over the white supremacists and its concerns and abhorrence of the radical Left. Indeed, the community should be more concerned over the latter because its assaults are more direct and more frequent. And even more ominously, whereas no Republican leaders – including Trump – wish to be associated with white supremacists, mainstream Democratic leaders are increasingly supportive of the BDS movement and other anti-Israel groups. So it is that formerly pro-Israel New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and formerly pro-Israel New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker are embracing the BDS movement. And yet, rather than sound the alarms or fight the growing power and influence of the an-

E-Z Pass – A Growing Continued from page 28 double or triple your bill. I think EZ Pass needs a major overhaul and I would sincerely hope that our elected officials would make this matter one of their top priorities, “ he said. In January of 2017, the Boston Globe reported that one woman said that she had been charged for going through the same toll location multiple times in less than a half hour. Others have said that they are regularly double charged for their commute. As recently as August 12, 2017 on the Department of Consumer Affairs web site complaints about E-Z Pass were still

appearing. John from Pittsburgh said: “This is to those of you trying to decide if you should get an EZ Pass, as people just take these roads without thinking. I got an EZ Pass a year ago and I just regret half the times I go on the turnpike. They always find ways to screw you, are impossible to contact, have terrible customer service, and most of all, I hate giving my money to support a business of toll roads with inferior service. The transponder I have works 50% of the time, I've gotten false charges that I try to dispute and their customer service is terrible, accusatory, and just not friendly. There is ZERO way to email them, leave a message,

ti-Jewish far Left in their political home, the American Jewish leadership is ignoring the danger and devoting itself to criminalizing Trump, his advisers and supporters. Whereas the Anti-Defamation League had nearly nothing to say about either Sarsour or Cong. Keith Ellison, with his anti-Jewish record of statements from his service in the antisemitic Nation of Islam, ADL leader Jonathan Greenblatt insisted Monday that Trump must investigate his closest advisers for alleged ties to white supremacists. The alleged “ties” of the likes of Trump aides Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka to white supremacists are the invention of The Forward newspaper, which has relentlessly libeled both men – and particularly Gorka – without ever producing a shred of evidence to back up its allegations. Rather than acknowledge its errors, this month the Forward took its campaign a step further when it published an extraordinary op-ed titled “19 people Jews should worry about more than Sarsour.” Prominently placed between Gorka and Bannon and the other than contact them during your busy work week. Despite crystal clear evidence, they will still fine you and refuse to look through their army of cameras taking photos of your license plate for proof. Truly, the Turnpike is a trash organization. More often than not, the non-toll road is just 10-20 minutes more to wherever you are going when traveling several hours, I think it's best to just stick to those. For the trips where you are considering a longer commute with friends and want to take the Turnpike to save the time of yourself and others, I totally understand, perhaps take the road and just pay cash to minimize your overall contribution to the pockets of this atrocious business.”

PAGE 37 boycott and divert funds from Israel is symptomatic of the erosion of support for the Jewish state. It is surely not surprising that, in this environment, access to the U.S. administration by Jewish leaders is lower than it has been in over 50 years. The Jewish community must take stock or it will lose all influence on government. The Trump administration appears divided over Israel, with the State Department resurrecting the Obama approach of appeasing

the Arabs and applying moral equivalence to Israelis defending themselves and Palestinians engaging in incitement and terror. The Jewish leadership could have a positive influence in this area if it displayed political neutrality. Currently Israel enjoys more support from Christian evangelicals than from Jews. American Jewish leaders should wake up now before it is too late and their once influential community becomes marginalized. (WWW.WORDFROMJERUSALEM.COM)

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neo-Nazis on the one side and the leaders of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, and Trump himself on the other, was Mort Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America. In other words, for the Forward, pro-Israel American Jews of the type assaulted by Antifa and its comrades, and pro-Israel presidential advisers are more dangerous to the community than Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and of course, Sarsour herself who embraces Jew-killing terrorists and says that Jewish Israel-supporters must be shunned. Trump’s electoral victory was a revolutionary event in US history. Tens of millions of American voters supported Trump because he promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington and serve the needs of the people who the swamp cast asunder.

A big part of that swamp is the Left that insists it is above criticism while its opponents on the Right are deplorable racists unworthy of consideration. When Trump called out the far Left along with the neo-Nazis for their violence at Charlottesville, he was keeping his pledge to his voters and upending one of the most cherished myths of the hated “establishment.” Given that the white supremacists and radical leftists converge in their hatred of Jews, it is important for the American Jewish community and for America as a whole to embrace Trump’s actions. He is not engaging in moral equivalence between good and evil. He is exercising moral clarity. Without such clarity, the forces of Jew-hatred in the US will never be defeated. Without such clarity, the political position,

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security and freedom of American Jews will grow increasingly imperiled. Israel’s job, to the extent it has one in the current fight plaguing the US, is to point out this truth, not join the bandwagon in obfuscating it. Trump is far from a perfect mouthpiece for this essential battle against Jew-haters on the Right and the Left. But at least he is using his mouth to sound the battle cry. For this he should be applauded by Israelis and American Jews alike. (FRONT PAGE MAG)

Caroline Glick is the Director of the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Israel Security Project and the Senior Contributing Editor of The Jerusalem Post. For more information on Ms. Glick's work, visit carolineglick.com.

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Inside Montauk’s Pop Star Continued from page 9 of conservators who recreated the home. In 2001, Hadley told Architectural Digest, ‘Carrie Nye presented the idea of reconstruction to me so persuasively that I didn’t hesitate for a moment, despite the fairly daunting scope of the task.’ Sifting through the rubble offered

something to start with. Project architect Keith Gianakopoulos found one piece of a wall with ‘the old shingles, molding boards, window glass, twisted door hardware.’ A fireplace tile bore the stamp of its manufacturer on the back. In this forensic manner, the restoration was completed in three years. Eventually, a computer model had

Trump’s DOJ Not Trying Continued from page 32 to run the DOJ's antitrust division. The nominee, former DOJ antitrust lawyer Makan Delrahim, has said the AT&T/Time Warner deal does not pose a "major antitrust problem." Delrahim could be confirmed

by the Senate as early as September. But antitrust officials might not even feel the need to wait that long to approve the merger, as the discussions have proceeded to their current advanced stage despite the antitrust division's top spot sitting vacant. "The Justice Department can still make

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been fashioned and construction began in earnest.” It still never felt the same Cavett told The Post admittedly. The couple spent what would be their last years of their marriage in the rebuilt home. Then Nye passed away from lung cancer in 2006. Cavett remarried a business book author Martha Rogers in 2010. Earlier this year, the couple listed the new Tick Hall for $62 million.

antitrust decisions without Mr. Delrahim, though a political appointee usually has the final say on whether to challenge a major transaction," the Journal report said. The Federal Communications Commission can stop mergers that don't benefit consumers, but the FCC decided not to review AT&T's purchase of Time Warner.

sentence – ISIS out, Iran in. We are talking mainly about Syria,” Netanyahu said. Continued from page 17 “Our policy is clear,” he addNetanyahu followed up on Cohen’s briefing by warning that ed. “We strongly oppose the Prior to leaving for Washing- Israel would not allow Iran to fill military buildup of Iran and its proxies, first and foremost Hezton, Cohen issued a warning in the vacuum on its borders. “Today we received a review bollah in Syria, and we will do a briefing to government ministers that Iran is filling the vacu- from the head of the Mossad everything necessary to mainum left as ISIS’s hold on territo- about the security challenges we tain Israel’s security.” face. I will summarize it on one ry in Syria and Iraq wanes. (TPS)

Vehicular Jihad Comes Continued from page 23 in Berlin, in Jerusalem, in Paris, and elsewhere. Yet on CNN and elsewhere in the establishment media, no analysts have connected the dots between these jihad attacks, which have

U.S. Urges UN Not Continued from page 10 according to the Washington Post. He has indicated he plans to move ahead now, arguing that the list is a resource for consumers and travelers, ac-

Developer Provokes Ire Continued from page 8 a protest against the Stagg Group’s plan, according to Bronx Times. “But at the first conversations I had with the Stagg Group a year and half ago they were going to build market rate affordable housing for working families, with some mixed use.” King said that, while he supported housing for the homeless, housing such a large number of homeless people was having a deleterious effect on the neighborhood.

“Because of the behaviors of whatever is happening with some of the folks in that building, we have more homeless people outside of the building during the summer months, drug use out in the open, public urination,” King said in July. Stagg’s history was also called into question by Community Board 12 District Manager George Torres, according to Bronx Times report. “Mark Stagg has a history in this district and it’s not a very good history,” Torres told the outlet. “This is like the third

Top Priced Home in NYS Continued from page 9 door pool, a tennis court with a tennis house, an outdoor pool and pool house and two golf greens with golf houses. The Post reports, “The priciest home in the US, the over-the-top mansion from “The Beverly Hillbillies,” hit the market earlier this month and is asking a whopping $350

million. Additional features of Earl’s Jule Pond parcel include basketball and tennis courts, a 60-foot pool with a hot tub and a garage that can fit more than six cars. Dubbed Fordune and renovated in 2008, the structure still retains original details, including molded ceilings, Italian marble fireplaces and Frenchstyle parquet floors. The living room measures a nice 48 feet in

time he’s taken a building developed as market rate and turned it into something else.” NY Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz also took umbrage with Stagg’s plan to increase profits by converting the 5731 Broadway apartment into a homeless shelter. “I am outraged at the city’s plan to convert a brand-new apartment building in Kingsbridge into a homeless shelter,” Dinowitz told the Riverdale Press last month. “The community was led to believe that 5731 Broadway was to contain market-rate housing. Now ... we find out that we were the victims of a classic bait and switch.” length, and there are two master suites, as well as high ceilings, a family room and recreation rooms. If it sells for this mighty asking price, 90 Jule Pond Road stands to crush the national record set in 2014 by activist investor Barry Rosenstein. He snagged an 18-acre beachfront spread in nearby East Hampton for a massive $147 million, as The Post also reported at the time.” This listing is being marketed by Bespoke Real Estate.

around) and Barcelona, because he wishes to exaggerate the importance and influence of white an obvious connection with one supremacists, while minimizanother in sharing the same mo- ing the magnitude of the jihad tivating ideology and the same threat. And so it goes in the daily goal. But Wolf Blitzer readily sees a wholly imaginary con- news of the contemporary West: nection between Charlottesville another jihad massacre, and an(in which a neo-Nazi was imi- other reason to turn off CNN. tating jihadis, not the other way (FRONT PAGE MAG)

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olution from the start” and has fought against it before several U.N. bodies, State Department cording to diplomats from sev- spokeswoman Heather Nauert eral affected countries who re- said Monday, adding, “These quested anonymity to describe types of resolutions are counbehind-the-scenes jockeying terproductive and do nothing to advance Israeli-Palestinian over the issue. “The United States has been issues.” adamantly opposed to this res(INN)

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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis received the authority in June to deploy up to 3,900 troops to the region, but has held off on a decision until the administration agreed on a wider strategy. Though some questioned entrenching the United States

The United States currently maintains an estimated 8,400 troops in Afghanistan, with deeper into the war, few in the most being assigned to the administration have advocated 13,000-strong NATO force a drawdown, hoping to avoid tasked with training and adwhat many consider missteps vising Afghan forces. Some by the Obama administration 2,000 American soldiers carry that allowed the Taliban to re- out counterterrorism operasurge. Trump too has been wea- tions alongside Afghan troops ry of ramping up U.S. involve- to combat terrorist groups, inment, calling for a complete cluding the Taliban and Islamic withdrawal prior to launching State. his presidential campaign. (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON)

Anti-Israel Academics Continued from page 39 wrote on social media after GOP House Whip Steve Scalise was shot that white people are "inhuman a-holes" who need to "die." Drexel University's Ciccariello-Maher tweeted in 2016, "All I want for Christmas is white genocide," and this year tweeted that he wanted to "vomit" when he saw someone give their first-class seat on a flight to a uniformed soldier. Both were investigated by their respective academic institutions for these comments. Meanwhile, both Palumbo-Liu and Mullen have been

leading figures in the academic campaign to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. In 2014, Mullen issued a call on anti-Israel site Electronic Intifada to "de-Zionize our campuses." Palumbo-Liu, in a 2016 piece titled, "9 things you need to know about the Israeli occupation of Palestine," recommended readers look to alternative news sources for their information on the region, including several sites accused of publishing anti-Semitic content. He later updated the article to remove If Americans Knew from the list, after receiving backlash for recommend-

Dichter Slams Meretz MKs Continued from page 17

prison time they are sentenced to, the more money they get. providing salaries to terrorists How is it possible for an Israeli and their families, a point that delegation not to dare to bring this up with the president? Why prompted Dichter to respond. “We aren’t only talking about didn’t they ask why [Abbas] vissalaries,” Dichter said. “These its the grieving families of terterrorists get differential sala- rorists who die in the course of ries, meaning the more people their attacks and hails them as they kill and the more years of martyrs?” Dichter asked.

ing an outlet that has repeatedly published conspiracy theories about Jews. IAK has been marginalized even by virulently anti-Israel groups, such as the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation and Jewish Voice for Peace. CAN has created an open-access "anti-fascist syllabus" that "analyzes past and present contours of fascist thought and organizing in their various forms, and provides tools for understanding and for fighting fascism today … Primarily, the syllabus articulates fascism as an historical expression of capitalism's tendency to exploit and dominate poor, working class, and oppressed people." (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON)

The back-and-forth came ahead of an expected visit to the region by senior US officials including Special Envoy for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt, Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Powell and senior White House adviser and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as the administration continues its effort to restart peace talks between Jerusalem and Ramallah. (TPS)

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Education for the 21st Century: How ORT Sustains Jewish Life in Rome

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Anti-Israel Academics Launch Campus Antifa Group for Faculty

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Group will combat 'fascists' who use free speech 'as a façade for attacking faculty'

rowing up as a Jew in the capital of Christianity is not an easy thing. You always feel different. But you also feel a part of something.” For Shirel, Rome is not just history; it’s also her home. Jews have lived in the Eternal City for 21 centuries, through golden ages and ghettos, fascism and freedom. But things are chang- Students in Liceo Renzi participate in Jewish celebrations that ing. And without ORT Liceo complement the Jewish studies component of a robust multiRenzo Levi — the city’s sole re- faceted curriculum maining Jewish high school, run by Federation partner ORT — Rome’s Jewish future would be a lot less certain.

The Engine of Jewish Life Alumni of the Liceo Renzo Levi make up the heart of Rome’s 15,000-strong Jewish community. In fact, nearly every Jewish communal professional and lay leader in the city calls the school their alma mater. “Each time I go home, I find a new synagogue, new kosher restaurant, and more and more Jewish nonprofits,” says Shirel. “I think the school is playing an important role in this communal project.” Liceo Renzo Levi helped alum Daniel Bedusa find his passion

Lubavitch Educational Center purchases property to meet increased enrollment

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hen students return on Aug. 29 to the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami, a good number of them will be trekking a little farther to school, settling into a new facility. Girls from the Beis Chana High School, a division of the Lubavitch Educational Center, will be housed in a 48,681-square-foot building purchased by the center earlier this year at the cost of some $5 million. The new building sits in an office park a mile from the school’s current campus and was previously used by a for-profit college. According to Rabbi Benzion

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rominent anti-Israel academics launched a campus antifa group earlier this month for faculty across the United States. Purdue University's Bill Mullen and Stanford University's David Palumbo-Liu created the Campus Antifascist Network (CAN) to combat "fascists" who use "‘free speech' as a façade for attacking faculty who have stood in solidarity with [targeted] students," as Palumbo-Liu described it on his blog. Mullen, in an interview with Inside Higher Ed, said the mission of CAN was "to drive racists off campuses and to protect the most vulnerable from fascist attack," and "to build large, unified demonstrations against fascists on campuses when they come." When Inside Higher Ed asked Palumbo-Liu about CAN's views on the use of violence—such as the alleged asThese Liceo Renzi Levi Students, who have since advanced to other institutions, got a solid academic foundation at the school sault by masked, black-clad antifa members of a conservative for Jewish life. “My Jewish iden- want to hold onto it for the next student earlier this week—he said the group "would advotity was forged at that school,” he generation.” remembers. “My family is from He also learned to follow his cate self-defense and defense in various forms of those who are Libya. They fought for generaSee Education for the 21st , page 36 being threatened by fascists, but tions to keep this identity, and I

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Korf, the educational center’s headmaster, it was an absolute necessity for the 50-year-old school. “There was simply no more room,” he states. “Thank G d, every year we add about 100 more students, and we have literally used every drop of space we have.” Nearly 1,500 children from across the Jewish community attend the Lubavitch Educational Center, which includes separate preschool and first-grade programs; separate boys’ and girls’ elementary schools; and Beis Chana High School for Girls and Klurman Mesivta High School for Boys. In addition to a full curriculum of Hebrew and Jewish-studies classes, students receive

The new building, a mile from the school campus (Photo: Lubavitch Educational Center)

Girls from the Beis Chana High School, a division of the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami, will be housed in a 48,681-square-foot building purchased by earlier this year. (Photo: Lubavitch Educational Center)

comprehensive instruction in language arts, mathematics, science and social studies. The emphasis is on discovering, nurturing and challenging each child’s latent potential, according to the school. The boys’ high school is already at a different Miami Beach location, which also houses a post-high school program for rabbinical students. For the current year, only Beis Chana will be situated in the new building. The goal is for girls in both the elementary and high schools to be there for the 2018-19 academic year. (CHABAD.ORG)

Stanford University's David Palumbo-Liu (pictured above) along with Purdue University's Bill Mullen created the Campus Antifascist Network (CAN) to combat "fascists" who use "‘free speech' as a façade for attacking faculty who have stood in solidarity with [targeted] students," as Palumbo-Liu described it on his blog.

not violence." Palumbo-Liu was more forthcoming about his opposition to the alt-right and white supremacists on campuses, saying he was primarily concerned by their "propensity to physical violence, aggressive confrontation and provocation, and violations of others' civil rights." In his blog post, Palumbo-Liu wrote that CAN would support faculty who fascists "aggressively sought to smear, bully and

intimidate … especially faculty of color." "Progressive scholars such as Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor, Johnny Williams, Dana Cloud and George Ciccariello-Maher, among others, have each been threatened with violence, or firing, for strong anti-racist social justice commitments," he claimed. Trinity College's Williams See Anti-Israel Academics , page 38

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100 Best Things to Do in New York – Part I By: Jen Reviews

has several overlooks, a path, thickets and greenery to explore and also offers programs and tour for kids and adults. You can spend a few hours walking through the park or a longer time participating in a tour or activity.

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here is so much to do in New York State. New York City of course offers endless opportunities for fun and adventure, but the state also has mountains, lakes, and strong ties to history to explore. Here is the ultimate guide to the 100 best things to do in New York. Fishing, hunting, biking, boating – the Finger Lakes are a great

1. Adirondack Mountains (Plattsburg)

place for outdoor activities

14. Lake Champlain (Crown Point) The 9/11 Memorial serves as a beautiful tribute to those we lost on that fateful day and the museum offers an opportunity to learn about the events leading up to 9/11 as well as see the faces of the victims.

The Adirondack Mountains are a few hours drive north of New York City and a far cry from the hustle and bustle. In this beautiful landscape, countless opportunities to experience the outdoors await. You could spend an entire weekend here skiing, hunting, fishing, or many other outdoor activities. Or visit The Highline used to be a freight rail line in New York City and museums, breweries, or season- has been renovated into a unique outdoor space. It has several al events. overlooks, a path, thickets and greenery to explore and also

2. The Finger Lakes (Rochester)

3. Thousand Islands (Various)

15. Caumsett State Historic Park (Huntingdon)

offers programs and tour for kids and adults

Chinatown is one of the oldest New York City neighborhoods. Chinese immigrants settled here in the late 1800s and is a must see when in the Big Apple.

Fishing, hunting, biking, boating – the Finger Lakes are a great place for outdoor activities. But the area is best known for its wine, breweries, and hard cider. It’s a good weekend destination to relax, get outdoors, and indulge. The closest to the falls you can get, Cave of the Winds is an

Six Flags Great Escape Indoor Water Park

Established in 1999, the Wolf Conservation Center does its work through educating about wolves and how they contribute to and interact with the environment

A gorgeous landmark with a lot of shops and restaurants to offer, it’s easy to spend half a day in Grand Central Terminal. More if there is a special event going on. There’s also a long and interesting railroad history to learn about on your visit.

7. Coney Island (New York City) Coney Island is much more than a beach. There’s also space for many outdoor activities, a boardwalk with amusement rides, an aquarium, an ice skating rink, and a minor league

will take between 30 minutes to an hour out of your day to cross the bridge, depending on how long you stop to take in the view. Corning Museum of Glass. There are several galleries here, all displaying artwork made of glass. They have everything from glass collections to contemporary glass art. You can also watch glassmaking demos or take glassmaking lessons.

baseball stadium. You could spend an entire day here and you’ll probably still want to come back for more.

8. 9/11 Memorial/ Museum (New York City) The 9/11 Memorial serves as a beautiful tribute to those we lost on that fateful day and the museum offers an opportunity to learn about the events leading

17. Six Flags Great Escape (Queensbury)

18. Lake George (Lake George)

5. Central Park (New York City)

6. Grand Central Terminal (New York City)

16. Cobble Creek Farm (Spencerport)

Six Flags Great Escape is a family friendly fun filled amusement park that has a lot to keep you busy. From roller coasters to kid rides to a water slide park, you could easily spend the whole day here and still want to come back again the next.

A gift from France to the United States dedicated in 1886, the Statue of Liberty has always been a beacon of democracy and hope. Visit and you can climb all the way to the top and A gorgeous landmark with a lot of shops and restaurants to get the grand view from Lady offer, it’s easy to spend half a day in Grand Central Terminal. Liberty’s crown. Experiencing the monument itself will take 1-2 hours

In 1853, 750 acres of land were set aside to turn into Central Park. You could easily spend a day or two here exploring. There’s bridges, streams, waterfalls, statues, a boathouse – even a zoo.

Caumsett Park offers golf, trails, and even scuba diving. Stop by the polo pony barn for a lesson or check out the historic Henry Lloyd Manor. Spend a few hours to a whole day here, depending on how many of their outdoor adventures you want to partake in.

A family farm in existence for more than 80 years, Cobble Creek has a large variety of fruits and vegetables to indulge in as well as many seasonal activities. You can take a haunted hayride and cut your own Christmas tree. Shopping at the farm will take about an hour, more if you want to participate in any of the seasonal events.

Thousand Islands is known attraction at Niagara Falls that gets you so close, you have for its endless shorelines and to wear ponchos and special shoes. The tours are seasonal, provides a unique, beautiful stopping for the winter season at the end of October. environment to experience the outdoors. Fishing, hunting, boating, and hot air adventures await in a weekend getaway to Thousand Islands.

4. The Statue of Liberty (New York City)

Lake Champlain offers an extensive list of outdoor activities to enjoy as well as scenic hikes and drives. There’s a yearly Harvest Festival and County Fair as well as farmers markets, thrift shops, and amazing food. A weekend getaway is an ideal way to enjoy the Lake.

10. Cave of the Winds (Niagara Falls)

Chinese immigrants settled here in the late 1800s and is a must see when in the Big Apple. You could spend half a day exploring here, and make sure you plan to eat at least one meal while you’re in the neighborhood.

At Lake George, water sports are all available as well as spas, salons, live music, theater, and shopping. Relax outdoors or spend some time inside on a weekend getaway to this part of New York.

19. Jones Beach(Wantagh)

h t t p s : / / w w w. g o v e r n o r. ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/ files/thumbnails/image/JonesBeach_Parks_Pool_ExtendedHours_hero.jpg About 6 million visitors a year visit this beach on New York’s 12. Buffalo (Buffalo) east coast to play in the AtlanBuffalo has transformed itself tic Ocean. There’s also a boardlately and is a must see. It has walk with countless concession an up and coming food scene, a stands to grab a bite to eat or newly revamped Canalside, and play shuffleboard, basketball, a long list of kid friendly activ- or see a concert. You can spend ities as well as outdoor adven- anywhere from a weekend to a ture. Book a weekend getaway whole week on vacation relaxing at this world famous beach. here to see as much as you get.

The closest to the falls you can get, Cave of the Winds is an attraction at Niagara Falls that up to 9/11 as well as see the faces gets you so close, you have to of the victims. Allot 2-3 hours to wear ponchos and special shoes. The tours are seasonal, stopping properly pay your respects. for the winter season at the end 9. Brooklyn Bridge of October. Make sure to make (New York City) this a part of your Niagara Falls Built in 1883, the Brooklyn trip and dedicate about 2 hours 13. Highline (New Bridge is one of the oldest sus- of time. York City) pension/cable-stayed bridges in the country. It crosses to East 11. Chinatown The Highline used to be a River to connect Brooklyn to (New York City) freight rail line in New York Manhattan. It has an impressive Chinatown is one of the oldest City and has been renovated pedestrian and bicycle path. It New York City neighborhoods. into a unique outdoor space. It

20. Whiteface Mountain Resort (Lake Placid) Whiteface Mountain is the place to go for outdoor winter activities. They offer a variety

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of skiing opportunities and ice skating; but here, you can also bobsled and tour Olympic jumping facilities and a museum. Take a long weekend and visit this outdoor haven.

21. Niagara Falls (Niagara) America’s oldest state park, Niagara Falls is a natural wonder. Take a boat ride, stroll along the decks, just take in the beautiful sites. Then grab a bite to eat at the Top of the Falls and visit the aquarium. It will take about New York’s oldest tavern with historical ties to Benedict Arnold a full day to do everything here. and Major John Andre, the 76 Tavern is a must when in New

22. Corning Museum of Glass (Corning) There are several galleries here, all displaying artwork made of glass. They have everything from glass collections to contemporary glass art. You can also watch glassmaking demos or take glassmaking lessons. To see the museum, allow yourself an hour or two but plan for longer if you want to watch glass being made or take a lesson.

23. The Strong National Museum of Play (Rochester) The museum has more than 450,000 artifacts related to play – including exhibits about comic books and their characters, a carousel, and a train as well as some featuring favorite character like Sesame Street and the Berenstain Bears. Bring the kids and spend 2-3 hours in this fun museum.

24. Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome (Red Hook) Here you will find a collection of airplanes, cars, and motorcycles ranging from 1900-1939. The have air shows every weekend and four museum buildings to check out as well. Allow yourself at least 2 hours to enjoy this interesting place.

25. The Frick Collection (New York City) The Frick Collection is the collection of Henry Clay Frick that is housed in the mansion he once lived in on Fifth Avenue. It’s a vast collection of painting and sculpture that’s one of a kind. There are a list of guidelines to visit here and children under 10 are not permitted. You can see the whole collection in about 2 hours time.

26. Boldt Castle (Alexandria Bay) Build to express his love for his wife Louise and then later abandoned in heartbreak when she passed, George C. Boldt spared no expense when building Boldt Castle. The castle has 120 rooms to explore itself and the grounds offer sculptures and gardens. It would take roughly 3 hours to see most of this beautiful place.

27. Great Camp Sagamore (Raquette Lake)

York. It’s been preserved and restored with respect to its historical ties.

Located on the St Lawrence River among the 1000 Islands, Singer Castle was built in 1905 and is truly a sight to behold

37. Sandy Island Beach State Park (Pulaski)

experience. They offer beginner You have to schedule a visit, so classes, classes to hone more ad- plan a 2 hour trip to the Center. vanced skills, and open climb. Part of the Lake Ontario Classes are around two hours 42. Lighthouse Ice Dune and Wetland System, San- each, or you can open climb for Cream Company (Tarrytown) dy Island Beach State Park is a as long as you’d like. small beach perfect for a quiet In addition to ice cream, day of swimming and sun. Bring 40. Grand Prix Lighthouse Ice Cream Comyour own food and spend a few (Mount Kisco) pany also offers gelato, coffee, hours just relaxing. It also has At Grand Prix, you can race pastries, and soup, just to name one of the best sunset views over go karts around 2 different a few. The offer interesting flaLake Ontario. tracks. Or, bowl in a state of vors in a quaint, adorable light the art bowling alley then relax filled space. If you’re in the area, 38. Caramoor in the lounge. There’s also an spend an hour or so eating or Center for Music arcade, a bounce house, and a drinking something delicious. and the Arts toddler area. This is an amazing (Katonah) indoor space for families, you 43. North About 6 million visitors a year visit Jones Beach on New York’s east coast to play in the Atlantic Ocean. There’s also a The Caramoor Center for could easily spend a whole day Country Trailway (Westchester) boardwalk with countless concession stands to grab a bite to Music and the Arts is centered here. eat or play shuffleboard around music education and A trail system that accommoappreciation. Come here for the 41. Wolf dates walking, running, hiking, 28. Breezeway has history, trails, lighthouses, day and see a concert – artists Conservation Center mountain biking, and horseFarm (Monticello) back riding, the North Counand endless outdoor activities. include everything from jazz (South Salem) A quaint farm that offers a Plus, it’s absolutely beautiful. to classical – then explore the Established in 1999, the Wolf try Trailway has something for petting zoo and pony rides, the Spend a weekend getting to gardens. Conservation Center does its everyone. There are various kids will love it. They have geese, know the Chesapeake. work through educating about trails of various difficulties, so 39. The Cliffs ducks, horse, goats, and more. wolves and how they contribute make sure you plan your day at Valhalla Keep the kiddos busy for about 33. Fire Island to and interact with the envi- accordingly. National Seashore an hour here. The Cliffs at Valhalla are a ronment. The have a long list of See 100 Best Things to Do , page 37 (Patchogue) unique indoor rock climbing educational programs available. 29. Bethel Woods Close to New York City, Center for the Fire Island is a beautiful park Arts (Bethel) that provides opportunities Built on the site of Wood- for swimming, cycling, huntstock, the main exhibit in this ing, fishing, hiking, and much museum is about the festival more. They offer an extensive and the generation it came to list of kid’s activities, too. You represent. They also offer an ex- can spend a day in the park or tensive list of events including camp out and enjoy an entire pop up markets, speakers, and weekend. concerts. You could spend a few hours here just looking around, 34. The Erie Canal but you could easily turn your (Albany/Buffalo) visit into a half day visit if you Completed in 1825, the Erie stay for some entertainment. Canal is an engineering marvel that connects Lake Erie to 30. Delaware and the Hudson RIver. It covers a Ulster Railroad long span in the state, from (Arkville) the Lake Erie end at Buffalo A dinner train ride through to the Hudson River end at the Catskill Mountains, the Albany. There are a few points Delaware and Ulster Railroad of interest along the route, inis a unique experience. The also cluding the locks at Lockport, do occasional special events, the Fairport Lift Bridge, and a such as evening music trains state historic park. Spend an and train robbery reenact- hour checking out one of the ments. The rides last about 2 many locations along its path to see the historic canal. hours.

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31. The Arnold House (Livingston Manor)

35. Saratoga Spa State Park (Saratoga Springs)

A beautiful, quaint getaway in the Catskills, the Arnold House has a gorgeous tavern, a spa, and beautiful guest rooms. It also has a surprisingly long list of activities to enjoy, including snowshoeing, horseback riding lessons, fishing boat tours, and alpaca farms tours. A weekend away here would be an unforgettable experience.

There’s lots to do at the Saratoga Spa State Park, including golf, several swimming pools, cross country skiing, ice skating, a theater, two museums, and the Roosevelt Baths and Spas. You could easily spend a whole day here relaxing and enjoying the outdoors.

Deemed an historical landmark, Great Camp Sagamore is a 27 building camp in existence 32. The Chesapeake since the 1890s. Tucked away Bay (Various) in the Adirondacks, a weekend There are endless possibiliaway here will refresh you. They ties of where to stay and what to offer a wide range of programs do, but the Chesapeake Bay is a and education as well. must see when in New York. It

36. Chimney Bluffs State Park (Wolcott) See the giant spires along the Lake Ontario shore and enjoy the hiking and nature trails. Pack a picnic lunch and spend 2 hours soaking up this unique view.

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Cancer Research Institute and ICRF Announce Launch of the Immunotherapy Promise Initiative First-of-Its Kind Campaign to Fund Promising Immunotherapy Research in Israel, A Global Leader in Cancer Research Edited by: JV Staff

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he Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) recently announced the establishment of The Immunotherapy Promise™ fund, a groundbreaking, collaborative campaign bringing together the leading funder of immunotherapy research internationally with North America’s largest nonprofit dedicated to supporting Israeli cancer research. The new fund will promote research into immunotherapy, an approach to cancer treatment designed to engage and enhance a patient’s own immune system to detect and eliminate cancer cells anywhere in the body. The Immunotherapy Promise is a first-of-its-kind initiative dedicated exclusively to identifying and funding the most promising cancer immunotherapy research being conducted in Israel, a worldwide leader in cancer research. Unfortunately, private sector support for cancer research in Israel is simply not commensurate with the quality of Israeli science, and every year many promising research proposals go unfunded.

Why Immunotherapy? While immunotherapy first emerged as a form of FDA-approved cancer treatment in the late 1980s, it is only within the past six years that this class of therapy has begun to deliver significant survival benefit to

ments failed to control former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s metastatic melanoma, he began receiving immunotherapy in combination with radiation therapy. Seven months later, Carter announced that he was “cancer-free” and would no longer require treatment.

Immunotherapy was most famously in the news in 2015, when, after standard treatments failed to control former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s metastatic melanoma, he began receiving immunotherapy in combination with radiation therapy. Seven months later, Carter announced that he was “cancer-free” and would no longer require treatment.

patients, bringing it to the forefront of public attention. Immunotherapy was most famously in the news in 2015, when, after standard treat-

New immunotherapeutic approaches have been shown in clinical trials to effectively treat patients with bladder, head and neck, kidney, and lung cancers

Israel to Become Major Exporter of Medical Cannabis

the foundation of cancer treat- blue ribbon Scientific Review ment for most cancers. Panel will meet annually to vet and recommend funding for the How The most deserving immunotherapy Immunotherapy investigations across the State Promise Will Work of Israel. These awards do not A joint review panel consist- permit university or research ing of members of CRI’s Scien- institute overhead reduction, tific Advisory Council—which ensuring the full amount goes includes three Nobel Prize to funding the most promising winners and is led by Dr. James researchers in Israel. “The Cancer Research InAllison, named one of TIME’s stitute has always funded outstanding science globally, and partnering with ICRF helps ensure that we can couple CRI's immunological expertise with ICRF's longstanding relationships with Israeli institutions,” said Jill O’Donnell-Tormey, Ph.D., CEO and director of scientific affairs at CRI. “We hope our collaboration will attract the best scientific minds in Israel to focus on immunotherapy research, while also offering Israeli researchers unique opportunities for sharing knowledge, exchanging ideas, and fostering new collaborations worldwide.” A joint review panel consisting of members of CRI’s Scientific Commenting on the partnerAdvisory Council—which includes three Nobel Prize winners ship, Aaron Ciechanover, M.D., and is led by Dr. James Allison (pictured above) named one D.Sc., who along with Avram of TIME’s 100 most influential people for his pioneering work Hershko, M.D., Ph.D., became in cancer immunotherapy—and ICRF’s blue ribbon Scientific Review Panel will meet annually to vet and recommend funding the first Israelis to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences for their disfor the most deserving immunotherapy investigations across the covery of the Ubiquitin System, State of Israel. the body’s method of removing stages of disease, analysts pre- 100 most influential people for damaged proteins, said, “The fidict that over the next decade, his pioneering work in cancer immunotherapy will become immunotherapy—and ICRF’s See Cancer Research Institute , page 36 as well as leukemia, lymphoma, and melanoma, with clinical trials under way for more than 25 other types of cancer. President Carter’s response was remarkable—and melanoma is among the cancers most responsive to immunotherapy—but with many people showing more durable responses across cancer types including patients with very advanced

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Governmental committee recommends allowing export of cannabis smoking products, oils, tablets and evaporation-based products from licensed growers By: Israel 21c Staff

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srael may soon start exporting medical cannabis to countries where it is legal for medicinal use, following the recommendation of a government committee approved earlier this week by the ministries of health and finance. The committee recommended allowing the export of cannabis smoking products, oils, tablets and evaporation-based products from local growers who meet certain quality standards for growth, production, storage, distribution and supply-chain security. Finance Ministry Direc-

A pharmacist dispensing medical marijuana at the Tikun Olam store in Tel Aviv. Tikun Olam, operating under license from the Israel Ministry of Health since 2007, is the first, largest and foremost supplier of medical cannabis in Israel. Photo by Hadas Parush/FLASH90

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, left, and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman accepting the committee report regarding the export of medical cannabis. Photo courtesy of Israel Health Ministry

tor-General Shai Babad told Ynet that because Israel is one of the most advanced countries in researching and developing medical cannabis, “quite a few countries that have already contacted us” about the possibility of export. Among those countries reportedly are Australia, Germany, Denmark, the Czech Republic and Cyprus. Approximately 30,000 Israeli patients have prescriptions for medical cannabis through specially licensed physicians, supSee Israel to Become Major , page 36

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Which Heart Bypass Surgery Works Best? Study compares 'on-' and 'off-pump' procedures By: Steven Reinberg

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ive years after heart bypass surgery, patients whose operation was done using a heart-lung pump lived longer than those whose surgeons didn't use the device, a new study finds. Since the 1990s, two different approaches have been commonly used by heart surgeons to perform coronary artery bypass graft operations. Coronary artery bypass creates new routes for blood to flow to the heart because old routes are blocked by plaque in the artery. A piece of blood vessel is taken from another area of the body (often the leg) and used to "bypass" a blocked vessel going to the heart, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The two different ways to do this surgery have been referred to as "on-pump," assisted by a heart-lung machine, or "offpump." Which procedure produces better results has been controversial, the researchers said. "The heart-lung machine allows you to stop the heart so you can sew the grafts with no blood flowing through it," said senior researcher Dr. Frederick Grover, a professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Colorado. This enables the surgeon to work on a heart that is fully ex-

Overall, "Off-pump did not pump include patients suffering look as good as on-pump," Gro- from liver failure, he said. The report was published In addition, more people ver said. posed and not moving, he said. "Off-pump is not indicated Aug. 17 in the New England When operations are done who had off-pump surgery had on-pump, surgeons are able to major cardiovascular problems except for certain patients who Journal of Medicine. Dr. Joseph Sabik is chairman do more grafts. In off-pump sur- than those who had on-pump have issues, such as a heavily gery, the heart is a moving target operations — 31 percent versus calcified aorta," he explained. of the department of surgery at That means there's a lot of University Hospitals in Cleve27 percent, he said. as it continues to pump blood. This report looks at the fiveyear outcomes of patients who had heart surgery as part of the U.S. Veterans Affairs trial of onpump versus off-pump operations done from February 2002 through June 2007. In this trial, more than 2,200 patients from 18 VA centers were randomly selected to receive either on-pump or offpump heart surgery. They were assessed a year after their operation and then at five years. Specifically, the researchers looked for major cardiac problems, including death from any cause, the need for new heart procedures or nonfatal heart attacks. After a year, more patients who had an off-pump operation died or needed new procedures Since the 1990s, two different approaches have been commonly used by heart surgeons to than patients who had on-pump perform coronary artery bypass graft operations. Coronary artery bypass creates new routes surgery, Grover said. for blood to flow to the heart because old routes are blocked by plaque in the artery. A piece Five years after surgery, the of blood vessel is taken from another area of the body (often the leg) and used to "bypass" a rate of death among those in blocked vessel going to the heart, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. the off-pump group was a little Grover's team also looked for plaque build-up in the artery. land. He said, "Surgery is a over 15 percent, compared with nearly 12 percent among those other outcomes after five years, And, when a pump is used, the technical thing, and a lot of the who had on-pump surgery, the including death from heart aorta has to be clamped. Clamp- outcomes depend on how good disease and the rate of nonfatal ing can cause plaque in the ar- your surgeon is, particularly, researchers found. That's a 28 percent higher risk heart attacks. The rates of these tery to break off and result in a how experienced and technicalof dying five years after surgery secondary outcomes appeared blockage of the heart or brain, ly able the surgeon is with the procedure they are doing." for the off-pump group, Grover to be about the same for both Grover said. Off-pump surgery is techniOther reasons to use offgroups, the researchers found. said.

Nearly 4 Million Worldwide Die Each Year From Asthma, COPD In poorer countries these respiratory illnesses too often go undiagnosed and untreated, report finds Edited by: JV Staff

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wo major chronic lung diseases — asthma and COPD — kill nearly 4 million people worldwide annually, a new report finds. The study calculates that 3.2 million people died in 2015 from COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) — a group of lung conditions that includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, often tied to smoking. Asthma caused another 400,000 deaths, the report found. While asthma is more common, COPD is much more deadly. And while both conditions can be treated, many people remain undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. In addition, in many countries, treatment — if it exists at all — may be at insufficient levels, the research team added. "Although much of the burden [from these illnesses] is either preventable or treatable with affordable interventions, these diseases have received less attention than other prominent non-communicable diseases like cardiovascular disease, cancer or diabetes," said report lead author Theo Vos, a professor at the University of Washington, in Seattle. He spoke in a news re-

Two major chronic lung diseases — asthma and COPD — kill nearly 4 million people worldwide annually, a new report finds.

lease from The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, which published the study Aug. 16. Smoking and air pollution are the leading causes of COPD, the study authors noted. The causes of asthma are less certain but are thought to include allergens and smoking. One expert in respiratory health agreed that both diseases take a heavy, but treatable, toll on health. "Asthma may be fairly easily controlled and even reversed with medications," noted Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "And while COPD is also treatable , lung damage is per-

manent and the natural aging process of the lung is the progressive or accelerated loss of alveoli (lung tissue)," he added. "So the decline in lung function is life-long, whereas asthma does not have this issue." Vos and his team said that, overall, the diseases have become less common and less deadly since 1990 when judged by rates. But absolute case numbers worldwide have gone up because there are more people in the world — and more elderly people, too. The researchers found that COPD hit these countries the hardest: India, Lesotho, Nepal See Nearly 4 Million Worldwide , page 36

"The heart-lung machine allows you to stop the heart so you can sew the grafts with no blood flowing through it," said senior researcher Dr. Frederick Grover, (pictured above) a professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Colorado.

cally demanding, so one should have an experienced surgeon, Sabik said. He co-authored an accompanying journal editorial. "If you select the patients properly, and the surgery is done by an experienced surgeon, then the results can be good," Sabik said. Patients who need many grafts may fare better with onpump surgery, Sabik said, "because you just can't do it as well as off-pump." Elderly patients who may have had a stroke and only need two or three grafts probably do better off-pump, he said. "Both are very good procedures," Sabik said. "The key is to have a surgeon experienced with both so that they can choose the right one for you." (HEALTHDAY NEWS)

Travel Tips for Contact Lens Wearers With an eye to safety, you can avoid vacation pitfalls Edited by: JV Staff

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eep your eye on your contact lens regimen if you're traveling this summer. "Being prepared when traveling is key to eye safety," said Dr. Andrew Pucker, an associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry. "While the vast majority of contact lens wearers believe they are compliant, up to 90 percent of patients fail to accurately complete at least one step of their care regimen," Pucker noted. Either they wear contact lenses for more days than recommended, keep them in overnight, expose their lens to tap water or fail to fully follow the cleaning instructions given to them by their optometrist, he said. Taking shortcuts in your eye care while traveling can exacerbate bad habits or create new dangers. Here, Pucker provides tips

"UV-protecting contact lenses protect only part of the eye," Pucker said. "Sunglasses also provide protection, though neither contact lenses nor sunglasses fully protect the eyes from harmful light," he explained.

Taking shortcuts in your eye care while traveling can exacerbate bad habits or create new dangers.

about contact lens safety for vacationers: Consider your destination: "Not all travel destinations have the same resources as the United States," Pucker said. You could lose your lenses and have no way to replace them, encounter pollution or not have access to clean water, he added. If you're going to an underdeveloped country, consider leaving your contacts home to avoid the risk of eye irritation or infection, he said. Also, remember to pack travel-sized bottles of contact lens solution and leak-proof contact lens cases. It's also smart to pack extra contact lenses and a pair of eyeglasses. Remember to remove your contacts before swimming. Otherwise, you risk developing an eye infection. If you need your

lenses to see while swimming, he suggested daily disposable lenses you can discard when you finish your laps. Protect your eyes from the sun's ultraviolet rays by wearing polarized sunglasses, UV-protection contact lenses if applicable and a large-brimmed hat. "UV-protecting contact lenses protect only part of the eye," Pucker said. "Sunglasses also provide protection, though neither contact lenses nor sunglasses fully protect the eyes from harmful light," he explained. He recommended a combination of measures, such as sunglasses, contact lenses when needed for vision correction, and hats. Children are more susceptible to UV damage than adults, and should always be protected from the sun's harmful rays, he said. (HEALTHDAY NEWS)

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Notice of formation of VILUCI LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/03/2017. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Viluci LLC, 2609 East 14th Street, Suite #360, Brooklyn, NY 11235. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of Qualification of ALPHA SQUARE GROUP FUND I LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/25/17. Office location: New York County. 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: 85 Broad St, Fl. 18, NY, NY 10004. DE address of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. 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 Xin Szeto, Controller, Alpha Group Square S LLC, 85 Broad St, Fl. 18, NY, NY 10004. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of Qualification of Intren, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/16/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Illinois (IL) on 12/27/16. 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. IL address of LLC: 18202 W Union Rd, Union, IL 60180. Cert. of Formation filed with IL Secy of State, 501 S 2nd St, Springfield, IL 62756. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of Qualification of ALPHA SQUARE GROUP S LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/25/17. Office location: New York County. 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: 85 Broad St, Fl. 18, NY, NY 10004. DE address of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. 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 Xin Szeto, Controller, Alpha Square Fund I LLC, 85 Broad St, Fl. 18, NY, NY 10004. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of Formation of Scrap Yard Holdings, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/9/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, 156 W 56th St, NY, NY 10019, Attn: Bruce Bronster, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of Formation of JA 2040 White Plains LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/6/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of formation of MARIAS MUFFINS & DESSERTS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/22/2016. Office location: Richmond County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Maria Dellavalle, 40 Anaconda St, Staten Island, NY 10312. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [8/25-9/29]

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Notice of Qualification of BROOKFIELD FAIRFIELD U.S. MULTIFAMILY VALVE ADD FUND II DEV PF, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/19/17. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/21/17. 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. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John B. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of Application for Authority of KD CONNECTICUT ADJUSTERS LLC, a foreign limited liability company (LLC). Application for Authority filed with Secy. of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/30/2016.LLC organized in Connecticut on 04/07/04. 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: The LLC, 38 Hill Top Rd, East Haddam, CT 06472. Office address in jurisdiction of organization: 70 Woodvale Dr., Northford, CT 06424. Copy of Articles of Organization on file with Secy. of State of CT, 30 Trinity St. Hartford, CT 061150470. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of Qualification: Bonchon Group LLC Auth. filed with Sec of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/9/17. Office loc: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/3/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 575 8th Ave, #502, NY, NY 10018. DE addr. of LLC: 919 N Market St, #950, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec of State, 401 Federal St, #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: General. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of formation of SUSU MOVEMENT, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/07/2016. 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. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of Qualification of Hunt CMT Finance, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/6/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. 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. [8/25-9/29]

Notice of Qualification of CCV CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/28/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/13/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 959 1st Ave., Apt. 6P, NY, NY 10022. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [8/259/29]

Notice of Qualification of Zirrus, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/10/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 6/30/14. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. FL of LLC: 4171 W. Hillsboro Blvd., Ste. 3, Coconut Creek, FL 33073. Arts. of Org. filed with FL Secy. of State, 2661 Executive Center Cir., Tallahassee, FL 32301. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/259/29]

Notice of Qualification of Denim Lab LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 9/26/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Attn: Rocco Vienhage, 3578 Hayden Ave., Ste. N-1, Culver City, CA 90232-2445. Principal office of LLC: FRAME, 51 Greene St., NY, NY 10013. Arts. of Org. filed with CA Dept. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/25-9/29]

PRETTY THINGS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/2/2017. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 502 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [8/189/22]

Notice of Formation of IMAGINE & ATTAIN LIFE COACHING, LLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 06/07/2017. Off. Loc.: NY 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, 4142 24th St. Apt. 631, Long Island City. NY 11101. Purpose: any lawful act. [8/18-9/22]

NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for SG Mortgage Securities, Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006-FRE2, Plaintiff AGAINST Tetiana Berriors a/k/a Tatyana Onischenko, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 2/29/2016and entered on 3/17/2016, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 28, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises known as 1810 Avenue Y Brooklyn, NY 11235. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 7439, LOT: 5. Approximate amount of judgment is $842,354.54 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 28287/2008. Sean R. Smith, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706

Notice of Qualification of Yahoo Fantasy Sports Player Funds LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/4/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/31/17. 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. [8/18-9/22]

Notice of formation of NERE LIC BUILDING ENTERPRISES LLC. Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/28/2017. Office located in Kings county. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: Bentley Zhao, 4918 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [8/18-9/22].

Notice of Qualification of MERIT HILL GP LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/31/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/6/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 594 Dean St, Ste 26, Brooklyn, NY 11238. 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. [8/18-9/22]

Notice of Formation of NYC FAMILY THERAPY PSYCHOLOGY PLLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 07/07/2017. Off. Loc.: NY 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, 603 W 115th Street, Suite 170, New York, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful act. [8/18-9/22]

Notice of Qualification of Macquarie Nufang US LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/11/16. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/5/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 80 State St, Albany, NY 12207. DE address of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [8/18-9/22]

Notice of Qualification of KALAN LP. The fictitious name is: KALAN SERVICES L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/7/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/9/97. 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. [8/18-9/22]

Notice of Qualification of MERIT HILL CAPITAL, LP. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/31/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/6/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 594 Dean St, Ste 26, Brooklyn, NY 11238. 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. 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. [8/11-9/15]

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]

PAGE 46 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. [8/11-9/15]

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.

The Jewish Voice 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. [8/11-9/15]

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. [8/11-9/15]

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. [8/11-9/15]

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]

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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 122072543. 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 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 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 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 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. [8/4-9/8]

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. [8/4-9/8]

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 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 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]

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 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 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 Formation of 915 Saint John's HPG Investor II LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/30/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 20 W. 22nd St., Ste. 1601, NY, NY 10010, Attn: Drew Popkin. Purpose: any lawful activities. [7/28-9/1]

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 25, 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 formation of IN OUR HEADS PRODUCTIONS LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/15/2017. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Judith Halsey, 730 Schenck Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of Qualification of Citigroup Index LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/8/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 388 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10013. LLC formed in DE on 7/1/03. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Suite 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [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. [7/218/25]

Notice of Formation of CCA 270 ST. NICHOLAS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/30/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The Community Preservation Corporation, 28 E 28th St, Fl. 9, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of Qualification of WARBURG PINCUS FINANCIAL SECTOR GP, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/11/17. Office location: New York Co. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/1/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of formation of SMALL MALL USA LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/2017. Office location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 347 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/21-8/25]

The Jewish Voice Notice of Qualification of RNW ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS, PLLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/28/17. Office location: New York Co. PLLC formed in Texas (TX) on 6/22/14. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, Fl. 13, NY, NY 10011. TX address of PLLC: 3009 Post Oak Blvd, Ste 2000, Houston, TX 77056. Cert. of Formation filed with TX Secy of State, James E. Rudder Bldg., 1019 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701. Purpose: Engineering. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of formation of collective please llc filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/28/17. Office loc.: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to is M. Burr Keim Company, 2021 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19103. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [8/18-9/22]

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]

Notice of Formation of ESNMC Subsidiary CDE VII, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/23/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 633 3rd Ave, Fl. 37, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: being certified as, and performing as, a certified community development entity eligible to receive an allocation of new markets tax credits under the new markets tax credit program. [7/14-8/18]

Notice of Formation of ESNMC Subsidiary CDE XV, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/23/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 633 3rd Ave, Fl. 37, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: being certified as, and performing as, a certified community development entity eligible to receive an allocation of new markets tax credits under the new markets tax credit program. [7/14-8/18]

Notice of Qualification of WESTMINSTER STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/11/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/09/17. Princ. office of LLC: 299 Park Ave., 20th Fl., NY, NY 10171. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Attn: General Counsel, 299 Park Ave., 42nd Fl., NY, NY 10171; however, as amended by Cert. of Amendment filed with SSNY on 05/18/17, name changed to LIONHEART STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT LLC, also amended on 5/18/17, SSNY shall mail process to c/o Lionheart Strategic Management LLC, Attn: Mr. Billy Jacobs, 299 Park Ave., 20th Fl., NY, NY 10171. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [7/14-8/18]

PAGE 47 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 3015 RICHMOND TERRACE LLC. Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) 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.

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]

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [8/18-9/22].

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

Notice of formation of 181 ELK STREET LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/28/2017. Office location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Matthew Mahanna, 123 Washington St., Apt. 51G, New York, NY 10006. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/14-8/18]

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]

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NUTRITIONIST 9910

I WILL CLEAN YOUR HOUSE OR OFFICE. I have 18 years experience. I am reliable & dependable. Own Transportation. I will make your house/ office shine. References available. Call 516-776-0021 LM0929

HEALTH / SOCIAL SERVICES 9930 CNA POSITION WANTED. I have over 10 years experience. Live-in or liveout. Day or evening hours. I am hard-working. Excellent references. Florida only. Call 305-697-1196 LM0929 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 LM0922

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 AREA CLAIMS WRITER AND PROPERTY INSPECTORS. Interviewing now. Excellent income, pt/ ft flexible hours. Training provided. 732-801-1532 acwinspector@gmail.com

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

9043

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

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

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 9950

CONSUMERS FULL CLEAN OUT SERVICE. Basements. Attics. Garages. Houses. Swept & Vacuumed. RUBBISH REMOVAL 24/7. Antiques Bought & Sold. Professional Moving & Storage. 5 BorosNassau- 30 Yr. Exp. Affiliated with Santini Moving Storage. Senior Discount. www. cleanouts.xyz 516-322-1158 & 800-834-1394 JP0929 TREE OF LIFE. ALLEN THE TREE SURGEON. Removals. Pruning. Planting. Storm Damage. Chipper Service. Landscaping. Strap Metal. Snow Removal. 845-401-8411 LM0929

FALLSBURG CONSTRUCTION, CORP. Roofing, Decking, Siding, Renovations, Flooring & Ceramic Tiles. Fully Insured. Free Estimates. 845-866-4643 LM0922

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

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

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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

LM0825

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

FRANKLIN LAKES. GATED RETREAT ON 3 PRIVATE ACRES, ELEVATOR, LAVISH GOURMET KITCHEN,

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, semidetached garage. Asking $1.38 million. Galaxy Fortune Realty. Call Agent Betty Yee 917-337-3336 LM0901

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES FOR RENT QUEENS

3050

RICHMOND HILL OFFICE FOR RENT. Corner space. Near courthouse, JFK Airport & hospital. Suit to fit. $1,600 per month includes all except for electric. Leave message 9AM5PM at 917-446-1658 LM0819

BRONX

4050

3060 EAST TREMONT AVE: STORE FOR RENT. Top retail location, high pedestrian traffic, 3000sf, can be divided. For details: Rafi- 718-3641400 or 347-495-0614

STATEN ISLAND

5050

DONGAN HILLS. Perfect for Psychologist, Accountant, Attorney, Financial Planner. Cozy 2 rooms with waiting area. $600 + utilities. Call Owner at 718-979-7458 LM0812

EXTRAORDINARY FEATURES, $1,899,999. DEBBIE 201-925-7667 OR WWW.811COLONIAL ROADFRANKLINLAKES.COM LM0113

Well-Established Allstate Agency For Sale. Marine Park area. Agent wants to retire. Must be able to obtain your

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

COMMERCIAL / PROPERTIES FOR SALE NEW YORK STATE 7060 MALONE, NY. 103 Acres for Sale in the Country. 10 Miles West on 11B, Property is on Spalding Road. Power on the property. Just outside the Adirondack Park. $110,000 Or Best Offer. Call 802-767-3311 LM0825

OUT OF STATE

TOMS RIVER/ OCEAN CTY, NJ. For Sale, user/ investor opportunity, 9,000 sq ft Commercial building on 1.74 acres with 2,700 sq ft leased to national tenant. Multipurpose building, drive-in doors, great for all type contractors. Traffic counts over 44,000 cars per day. REMCO REALTY 732-253-0888 x 11 LM0916 JERSEY CITY. Builder’s Dream! Exclusive, residential lot is located on a quiet street East of Garfield Ave. Asking $225,000. Hurry! Won’t last! Call Grisell Romero at Exit Preferred Realty 201-6533948 LM0902

APARTMENTS FOR RENT BROOKLYN

1010

AVE U BETWEEN EAST 2ND & 3RD STREET. Second floor, private house. 2BR, 1 bath, newly renovated kitchen. Near transportation & shopping. $2,100 including utilities. Call Owner 917-865-6465 LM0811

own financing & currently be .in the insurance business Call 917-301-2477

8060

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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

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STATEN ISLAND

5010

MARINERS HARBOR. 2BR apt. Completely Renovated with Waterview. 7 Minutes from the Ferry. $1,550/ Month. 1 Month Sec. + 1 Month Rent + 1 Month Broker Fee. Contact Agent Marisol Ortiz 347-678-3386 LM0922

LONG ISLAND

SAG HARBOR. 5 BEDROOMS, 3.5 BATHS, NEW SALT GUNITE POOL. Available 8/6-9/2 weekly ($6k-$8k, depends on week.) Contact 917-509-6189

8030

DEAL, NJ. Outstanding Townhouse in the Heart of Deal. Living room, dining room, designer kitchen, 4BR, 3 ½ baths, full fin bsmt with BR & bath. Garage. $3,800/ month. Credit check. Call Dot Schulze Agency 732-229-2600 LM0902

6010

EAST QUOGUE. One bedroom cottage with chef’s kitchen on gated 10 acre estate. $1,300 monthly. Also, Studio apt available. Access to tennis available. 631-466-0578 LM0929

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HOUSES FOR SALE BROOKLYN

1040

PARK SLOPE. 13 St/ 6th Ave. 3 fam brownstone + bsmt. 2BR each apt. Over $9,200 income/month. Broker Lazar 917-553-4553 lazarnyc@ gmail.com JP0929

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

MADISON. KINGS HIGHWAY &amp; E 20’s. Semi-det 1 family home centrally located to Avenue P, Ocean Ave &amp; Kings Highway. Home features 3 bedrooms, on 2 nd floor with full bath. FLR &amp; FDR on Main floor with large EIK, wood cabinets. Mud room &amp; 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

4040

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

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

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NY STATE HOUSE FOR RENT

7030

CHESTNUT RIDGE. 3BR Home

LONG ISLAND

MERRICK S. Hi Ranch, 2.5 New Baths, updated granite kitchen, 4BR, Luxurious IGP, Stone Gas Fireplace, SD25. $669K. 516-379-6608 LM0901

Includes utilities. Available September 1st. Call 914-906-1761

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NEW YORK STATE 7040 CENTRAL NYACK. High Ranch, 7 rooms + 2.5 baths, fireplace, central a/c, screened-in deck, 2 car garage. $475,000. 845358-3965

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OLIVE-BRIDGE, NY. 2BR Cottage, ¼ acre. Near ski area. $90,000 or best offer. 845-897-9555

FOR SALE BY OWNER

Fishkill, Townhouse, Deer built 1992, 50-unit dev, end unit, on cul de sac, c/a, gas 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 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

ASKING $625K BY OWNER 443-875-9204 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,

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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

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2 Family Attached BRICK. 3 bedrroms, 3 baths, private

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6040

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

for Rent. Month to Month on

Crossing 1br, 2b 1,365sqft, 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

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782145

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

$569,000

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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

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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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