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Jewish Academy of Orlando will hold its annual book fair, Monday, Oct. 29-Nov. 2. This year’s theme is Enchanted Forest. The fair’s signature event, Family Night, will be held Oct. 28, at 6.30 p.m. The event will feature four children’s authors including: Chris-tina Farley, author of “The Princess and the Page”; J.J. Howard, author of “Pugs and Kisses”; Peter Raymundo,

author of “Third Grade Mermaid” and “The Narwhal”; and Margaret Mincks, “Payback on Poplar Lane.”

“Once again, we are delighted to have each author conduct a special activity including, and back by popular demand, Peter Raymundo’s illustration session. It will be a entertaining evening for the entire family,” stated Lanie Reisman, school librarian.

The Book Fair and Family Night are open to the community. Everyone is invited to shop the book fair all week between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

To learn more about the book fair and Jewish Academy of Orlando, please visit: https://www.jewishacademyorlando.org or follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JewishAcademy-Orlando.

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By Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON (JTA)—There are 15 Jewish Repub-lican candidates running in U.S. House of Representatives races this fall. Two are incum-bents and 13 are challengers.

JTA is breaking down the races, assessing where the candidates stand on the political spectrum, noting their Jewish involvement and

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Shown here (l-r): Rep. David Kustoff, Lena Epstein, Naomi Levin, and Rep. Lee Zeldin.

A guide to the Jewish Republican House candidates in the 2018 midterm elections

reporting what the forecasters say. Last week we covered the five Jewish Senate nominees, all Democrats. You can find a breakdown of the Jewish Democratic House candidates here.

These are all of the Re-publican House candidates, broken down by state and whether they are incumbents or challengers. (The prospects below are based on the 538 blog unless otherwise noted.)

Incumbents:NEW YORKLee Zeldin, 38

1st District, eastern Long Island, in Congress since 2015. Known for: His robust alliance with Trump, who has endorsed him. Zeldin, an Army veteran, has become a go-to TV talking head defend-ing Trump from charges that his campaign colluded with Russia. Zeldin also embraces Trump’s policies on stemming

undocumented immigration and has sponsored legisla-tion that would revoke the citizenship of Americans found to be members of gangs. Jewish stuff: An email from the Republican National Committee sent to New York Jewish Republicans called Zeldin “perhaps the most important pro-Israel” member of Congress. He has

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Israeli security forces at the scene where a building was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, on October 17, 2018.

(JNS)—A medium-range grad rocket fired by terrorists in the Gaza Strip destroyed a home in Beersheva, Israel’s third-largest city, deep inside Israeli territory.

The Red Alert warning system was activated at 3:39 a.m. in Beersheva and the sur-rounding Negev communities, with residents throughout the area scrambling for shelter. A 39-year-old mother and her three children—ages 9, 10 and 12—were treated for shock after the rocket scored a direct hit on their family home.

Beersheva home destroyed by rocket

After hearing the warning siren, the mother woke the children and evacuated them to the home’s bomb shelter just seconds before the rocket smashed the house. The fam-ily was extracted by police and firefighters were called to the scene, where they started to disconnect power sources and neutralize other risks.

An additional rocket with an even higher payload was reported to have landed just off the Mediterranean coast,

(Israel21c)—Humanitar-ian organization IsraAID is sending volunteers to north-west Florida; teams already helping in North Carolina, Philippines and Indonesia.

Israeli humanitarian NGO IsraAID is preparing to deploy an emergency response team to northwest Florida, which has suffered brutal devasta-tion from Hurricane Michael since it made landfall on Wednesday.

Several people have been killed and thousands evacu-ated from their homes as the category-four hurricane dam-aged and destroyed houses, hospitals, roads and water systems across the Florida panhandle.

IsraAID’s team in Florida will collaborate with Team Rubicon, an international disaster response organiza-tion founded by US military veterans, to aid the return of survivors of Hurricane Mi-chael to their homes. IsraAID also is working with Team

Israel helps hurricane victims

Rubicon in North Carolina to remove debris and restore the homes of people forced to evacuate by Hurricane Flor-ence last month.

American volunteers are being recruited to join the IsraAID effort.

“This will be the second time in just over a year that we have responded to an emer-gency in the state, after Hurri-cane Irma hit last September,” said IsraAID co-CEOs Yotam Polizer and Navonel Glick. “Our team will remain in the area to help people affected by this devastating storm for as long as we are needed.”

IsraAID also has emer-gency response teams on the ground in the Philippines and Indonesia.

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Hurricane on page 14A

Midterms on page 15A

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Judaism provides a beau-tiful, structured approach to mourning that involves three stages. When followed

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The process of mourning is not easy, and the class provides a structure to let mourners feel their alone-ness, separating them from the outside world and then gradually reinstating them back into society.

Time does heal. But not because we are busy and the memories fade. With time comes the realization that the person we are today reflects the loved one we lost. The elements of our character, actions and values may result from this special soul lost.

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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel Post and the U.S. Postal Ser-vice have issued a joint stamp for Chanukah.

The stamp also is meant to celebrate 70 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United States, Israel Post said in a statement.

The new stamp design was launched simultaneously in the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest synagogue in the United States, and at the American Center in Jerusalem.

“Today’s joint stamp issue is a symbol of the shared val-ues and the cultural affinity between the United States

and Israel,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said at the Jerusalem ceremony.

Postal Service Judicial Officer Gary Shapiro said in Rhode Island: “Starting today, this work of art celebrating the Jewish Festival of Lights will travel on millions of letters and packages, throughout America and around the world.”

The stamp art features a Chanukah menorah cre-ated using the technique of papercutting, a Jewish folk art, by artist Tamar Fishman. Behind the menorah is a shape that resembles an ancient oil jug representing the miracle of the oil that burned in the

candelabra in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after its sacking and recapture for the eight days necessary to resupply. Additional design elements include dreidels and a pome-granate plant with fruit and flowers.

The stamp is being issued in the United States as a Forever stamp, which will always be equal in value to the current first class mail one-ounce price. It will sell in Israel for 8.30 shekels, the cost of a regular first-class stamp. Chanukah begins at sundown on Dec. 2.

The first joint U.S.-Israel Chanukah postal stamp was issued in 1996.

Israel and US postal services issue joint Chanukah stamp

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Sen. Ted Cruz called J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, “rabidly anti-Israel” in the Texas Republican’s debate with his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke.

“Congressman O’Rourke is fond of saying he doesn’t take PAC money, but the truth is different,” Cruz said Tuesday after O’Rourke accused the incumbent of accepting big money from political action committees. “For example, the J Street PAC, which is a rabidly anti-Israel PAC, has raised over $160,000 for Con-gressman O’Rourke because of his many votes against the nation of Israel.”

O’Rourke has said and J Street has confirmed that O’Rourke accepts money from individual donors who route it through the J Street PAC, but does not accept money from the PAC itself. Donors sometimes route individual

donations through PACs in order to emphasize to the candidate the issue that they favor.

J Street immediately seized upon Cruz’s jibe in a fundrais-ing email.

“You know what? We hon-estly don’t care if Ted Cruz wants to insult us. If anything, being attacked by Ted Cruz is a badge of honor,” the group said in an appeal Wednesday with the subject line “Ted Cruz Attacks J Street.”

“What we care about is that extremists like him—elected officials who undermined the Iran deal, demonize Palestin-ians to score political points and believe the only way to be ‘pro-Israel’ is to support every policy of the Netanyahu government—hold power in Washington right now,” the appeal said.

Each candidate has raised huge amounts, in the tens of millions of dollars, for the November election.

Cr u z ’s re ferenc e to O’Rourke’s “many votes against the nation of Israel” appears to refer to O’Rourke’s vote in 2014 during that year’s Gaza war against emergency funding for Iron Dome, Israel’s anti-missile system. Cruz has previously mentioned O’Rourke’s vote.

O’Rourke has said that he objected to how the funding was rushed through, but he took a great deal of flak from the pro-Israel community for the vote.

This month, O’Rourke released a statement saying that he backs defense as-sistance for Israel because he “believes Israel is criti-cally important to the United States because it is the home of the Jewish people, because it is an exemplary democracy that shares our values, and because it is a crucial contributor to our national security objectives in the region.”

Cruz slams ‘rabidly anti-Israel’ J Street in debate with O’Rourke

By Jack GoldWorld Israel News

The Palestinians and sev-eral Muslim countries ex-pressed indignation after Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced he was considering recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the country’s embassy to the city.

Morrison revealed the possibility in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu on Monday. “I’m very thankful to him for this. We will continue to strengthen

ties between Israel and Aus-tralia,” Netanyahu tweeted that day.

Morrison, Australia’s new prime minister, said on Tues-day he was “open” to following the U.S., which 10 months ago announced it was moving its embassy to Jerusalem. The idea was proposed to him by Dave Sharma, a member of his party and former ambassador to Israel.

“When sensible sugges-tions are put forward that are consistent with your policy positioning and in this case pursuing a two-state solution, Australia should

be open-minded to this and I am open-minded to this and our government is open-minded to this,” Morrison told reporters.

Australia’s standing at stake?

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called on Morrison to reconsider his move, claiming it would be “in violation of international law and United Nations resolutions.”

A Tuesday statement pub-lished by the official Pales-tinian WAFA news agency claimed Morrison “harmed Australia’s interests and its international standing,” and

urged the Australian opposi-tion, civil society organiza-tions, the business sector and the Arab and Islamic commu-nities to press the Australian government to reconsider its position.

The Palestinian representa-tive to Australia, Izzat Salah Abudulhadi, slammed the de-cision, calling Morrison’s plan “deeply disturbing” and saying it would embolden the Trump administration to resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict in a way that leaves the status of Jerusalem and Palestin-ian refugees “off the table,” the Guardian reported.

Abudulhadi hosted a meet-ing of representatives of sev-eral Middle Eastern countries on Tuesday to discuss the Australian prime minister’s proposal.

The head of the Palestin-ian delegation was joined by

representatives from the em-bassies of 12 countries in the Middle East and North Africa: Kuwait, Jordan, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Sudan, Qatar, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Iraq.

Indonesia weighs inWhen Morrison became

prime minister in August, he made his first overseas trip to Indonesia, the world’s larg-est Muslim-majority nation which strongly supports the Palestinians.

Morrison told Parliament that he had briefed Jakarta overnight about the an-nouncement. But the Aus-tralian Broadcasting Corp. reported that an unnamed Indonesian official had said Jakarta had been taken by surprise by the announce-ment, which could harm trade negotiations between the two countries.

Indonesian Foreign Min-ister Retno Marsudi said his government questions the merits of Morrison’s an-nouncement and conveyed its “strong concern.”

“Indonesia has asked Aus-tralia and other countries to continue to support the Palestinian-Israeli peace process in accordance with the principles agreed upon and not take steps that could threaten the peace process itself, and threaten the stability of world peace,” she said.

While many Arabs and Muslims expressed sharp opposition to the U.S. reloca-tion of its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May and threatened action, the strong rhetoric did not manifest itself in violent protests.

AP contributed to this report.

Muslims rage over Australia’s openness to embassy move

as Israel’s capital would make the country only the third to do so, following the United States and Guatemala in May. Paraguay relocated its embassy there as well, but its new leader, President Mario Abdo Benitez, reversed the move upon entering office.

At the same time, it would also be a major foreign-policy win for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has focused on building re-lations with nontraditional allies in places such as the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America and Africa. Netan-yahu made a historic visit to Australia in 2017, becoming the first Israeli prime minister to go Down Under, where he touted the growing bilateral ties between the two nations.

According to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, Ne-tanyahu spoke with the Australian leader ahead of his announcement on Jerusalem and “thanked him for his remarks.”

‘Sovereign territory since 1948’

Austra l ian pro -Israel groups, such as the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), reacted positively to the announcements.

AIJAC director of interna-tional and community affairs

Jeremy Jones told JNS that “AIJAC welcomes the foreign-policy announcements made by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The commitment to review policy on Iran, with a view towards taking a stand which would genuinely impact on that state’s ability to continue to destabilize the Middle East, promote terror-ism and existentially threaten Israel, is timely and necessary, given the changed U.S. policy and increasingly aggressive Iranian behavior.”

“The Prime Minister’s declaration of openness to recognizing Jerusalem as Is-rael’s capital and of potentially relocating the Embassy there from Tel Aviv, in the context of ongoing support for Israeli and Palestinian national aspi-rations and for a negotiated settlement between the par-ties, is also most welcome. It acknowledges the practical reality of Jerusalem’s status, and also that there is no logi-cal reason to continually delay consideration of this issue.”

AIJAC national chairman Mark Leibler echoed his colleague’s remarks: “Rec-ognizing Jerusalem as Is-rael’s capital—something the government now says it is seriously considering—would right a longstanding injustice,

as Israel is the only state in the world which the international community insists has no right to choose its own capital.

“West Jerusalem, where the Knesset and the other main organs of the Israeli govern-ment are located, has been sovereign Israeli territory since 1948,” stressed Leibler. “No one doubts that any negotiated two-state peace agreement would see Jerusa-lem remain as Israel’s capital.”

“I congratulate the Aus-tralian government for being open to the idea of moving their embassy to Jerusalem,” said Rabbi Levi Wolff of the Or-thodox Central Synagogue in Bondi, reported The Guardian.

“By doing so, the Austra-lian government is simply stating that Israel—the only free democracy in the Middle East—has the freedom to choose where they want to have their capital. It’s a basic right afforded to every nation in the world, so why should Israel be treated any differ-ently?”

Morrison cited former Australian Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma, who is currently running for election in Australia in a heavily Jewish district, as a huge influence on the Jerusalem case.

“The previous discussion

was premised on the point that you couldn’t pursue this issue without risking or without prejudicing the final status,” said the prime minister. “Now [Sharma] is arguing the op-posite to that, and he’s saying that is possible. He’s arguing it can be done consistent with Australia’s long-running posi-tion... He’s actually changing the way in which the issue is conceived.”

However, opposition lead-ers in Australia accused Mor-rison of playing politics with foreign policy, as Sharma is in a tight race for a byelection in for the city of Wentworth, home to 20,000-strong Jewish community.

Labor opposition foreign-affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong said Morrison was playing “dangerous and de-ceitful” word games to bolster Sharma.

“He is just posturing ahead of a byelection that he is des-perate to win in order to hold on to a slim majority,” she said.

Sharma rejected those claims, saying the announce-ment “has to do with the timing of the U.N. resolution on which we need to take a position and articulate our views. I don’t think any vot-ers are single-issue voters in Wentworth.”

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Australian Jewish leader says embassy move to Jerusalem would ‘right a longstanding injustice’

By Jackson Richman and Sean Savage

(JNS)—Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison an-nounced on Tuesday that he would consider moving the country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which would mark a major shift in policy in support of the Jewish state by a world power following the U.S. deci-sion to recognize Jerusalem as its capital by the Trump administration in December.

The Australian leader also announced that his country will vote against recognizing the Palestinian Authority as the chair of the G77 bloc in the United Nations, in addi-tion to reviewing the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, also known

as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Morrison, an evangelical Christian from the right-wing Liberal Party who assumed office in August, said he was “open to” the move, describ-ing it as a “sensible” proposal.

“The orthodoxy that’s driv-en this debate says issues like considering the question of the capital are taboo. I think we have to challenge that,” he said.

“We’re committed to a two-state solution, but frankly, it hasn’t been going that well,” he continued. “Not a lot of progress has been made. And you don’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results.”

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Two shining lights in Iceland

By Mel Pearlman

Earlier this month my wife and I flew to Iceland to chase and hopefully observe the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights, a spec-tacular colorful light show appearing in the night sky above the arctic circle, and in some instances even at lower latitudes.

This heavenly event is caused when intense solar activity increases the solar wind and spews out highly charged particles strong enough to break out of the sun’s gravitational pull, which then travel to the outer limits of the solar system.

As this solar wind passes through Earth’s magnetic field these particles are captured and interact with the atmospheric gases to create this spectacular night event.

Scientists who study the sun and solar ac-tivity cycles are able to predict to some level of probability up to 30 days in advance, when these solar events will result in a stronger display as the Northern Lights.

Armed with this scientific prediction, cam-eras and very warm clothing, we decided to fulfill this item on our bucket list with a week’s sojourn in Reykjavic, Iceland’s capital city.

We could not wait to join our tour a few days later that would take us up to the Blue Mountains, a one hour drive away from the city lights to an unobstructed view of the sky and hopefully, to a dry and cloudless location.

We were not disappointed. Although the swirls of light appeared to us more milky white rather than made up of vivid colors (because of the human eye’s inability to see the full color spectrum in the darkness), the camera lens caught the lights in their full glorious color arrays.

While we were in Iceland we also discovered another shining light, the new Jewish Center of Iceland. This newest of world-wide Chabad Houses is led by 27-year-old Rabbi Avraham Feldman and his charming wife Mushky, who arrived in May of this year with their young family. Although there is no official count of the Jewish population in Iceland, it is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 350 consisting of long-time local Jewish residents and expatri-ates doing business in Iceland. Many are in interfaith marriages. There are also increasing numbers of Jewish and Israeli tourists coming to see Iceland’s natural wonders.

Rabbi Avi, as he likes to be called, has moved quickly to establish and sustain this nascent organized Jewish community, the first ever according to historians. As a result of his ef-forts, the Icelandic government has recognized

and registered Judaism as a legitimate religion under Icelandic law, and as an eligible recipient of a proportional part of the religious income tax revenue imposed on all Icelanders.

His first organized Shabbat dinner and service drew more people than his large apart-ment could handle. Subsequent and regular Shabbat services and dinners are now held each week at hotels.

He indicated in our meeting that a Hebrew school is being started and is enthusiastically being received by the tiny Jewish community, who for the first time see an opportunity to educate their children in the faith, heritage and sense of peoplehood that make up Judaism.

While their initial reception and first efforts were successful, many problems remain to be solved to insure the continuity of Chabad’s efforts in Iceland. Slaughtering animals ac-cording to Jewish law is not permitted since the country adopted the process of stunning as the only humane method of animal slaughter. Non-medical circumcision is frowned upon and is threatened by pending, but not yet passed legislation.

On a positive note, because the nation has to import a substantial amount of its food, many kosher-labeled products can be found from overseas on supermarket shelves around the country.

The efforts in establishing an organized Jew-ish community by this enthusiastic, optimistic and hard working couple in a country with a sparse Jewish population, strengthens and in-spires the Jewish people everywhere; and truly brings a shining light to all Icelanders who in winter experience 18-hour days in darkness.

In you wish to comment or respond to any of the contents herein you can reach me at melpearlman322@gmail.com. Please do so in a rational, thoughtful, respectful and civil manner. Shabbat Shalom

Mel Pearlman holds both a B.S. and M.S in physics as well as a J.D. degree and came to Florida initially to work on the Gemini and Apollo space programs as a young physicist. He has been practicing law in Central Florida for the past 45 years. He has served as president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando; on the District VII Mental Health Board, as Special Prosecutor for the City of Winter Park, Florida; and on the Board of Directors of the Central Florida Research and Development Authority. He was a charter member of the Board of Directors and served as the first Vice President of the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida, as well as its first pro-bono legal counsel.

By Jonathan S. Tobin

(JNS)—The confirmation of Brett Kavana-ugh as the newest associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was greeted by the organized Jewish world in the same manner as his nomination by U.S. President Donald Trump. While some organizations stayed silent, liberal-leaning Jewish groups generally deplored his ascension to the high court. The far smaller number of conservative-leaning groups that label themselves as Jewish cheered him.

But the willingness of so many of the institu-tions that are tasked with representing Jewish interests to seek to drag the entire community into the no-holds barred brawl about Kavana-ugh and the future of the court didn’t draw much notice or debate. That’s because we take it for granted that such groups rarely question the notion that what is good for the secular partisan interests that most Jews support is what is also good for the Jewish community.

While just about everyone in the country had an opinion about the court fight—and is generally willing to view those who disagree as either evil or otherwise beyond redemp-tion—this ought to be one of those moments when Jewish institutions should be particularly careful about not getting involved in partisan politics that are tearing the country apart. Yet few seem willing to stay out of even the nastiest and most divisive battles, where, as was the case with Kavanaugh, the Jewish angle is far from obvious.

The argument for their actions is based in a belief that liberal stands reflect Jewish values about social justice. For some, that means anything that is identified with liberals or Democrats can be depicted as a Jewish issue, rather than just one on which many individual Jews have strong opinions. But the problem with this sort of thinking is that once you head down that road, virtually any issue can be defined as the right “Jewish” stand, even if it is wholly unconnected to the direct interests of the Jewish people.

When groups see no distinction between those partisan affiliations and the interests of the community, they are also marginalizing those who disagree. While there is no doubt that most American Jews are Democrats, the notion that liberals can speak for all Jews is as risible as the idea that one point of view encompasses that of all women or any other demographic group, let alone giving them the right to brand dissenters as beyond the pale.

The irony here is that the one issue on which there can be no debate about its impor-tance to the Jews or the obligation for Jewish organizations to speak up—Israel—is often the one about which American Jews are bit-terly divided. Support for the Jewish state has become controversial in some quarters, with many opposing its government policies on the peace process or are offended by the closeness between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump. Many on the left are

unperturbed by the drift away from support for Israel in the Democratic Party base or the rise of popular figures who are either critics or outright opponents of Zionism.

An example of how this worked was the battle over President Obama’s 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The pact was opposed by the overwhelming majority of Israelis and their government as a threat to their security, as well as to that of the region and the world, and many in the or-ganized Jewish community followed their lead. But while polls indicated that Americans were split on the issue, the same surveys showed that U.S. Jews were more inclined to favor it, with 48 percent of Jews supporting the deal and only 28 percent of non-Jewish Americans doing so. Most Jewish Democrats viewed the issue through a partisan lens; even supporters of Israel among them were able to persuade themselves that it was the right thing to do.

What this means is that though support for Israel is as strong, if not stronger, than it has ever been, Jews are, like the Democratic Party, divided about it or at least far more reluctant to support Netanyahu than many Christians.

By contrast, when Jews dive headfirst into tussles like the Kavanaugh nomination, which are in no small measure primarily driven by opinions about abortion, those on the left do so in the knowledge that, as a 2015 Pew Research Survey revealed, most Jews are far more enthusiastic supporters of Roe v. Wade than they are of Netanyahu and Israeli security.

On other issues, the Jewish angle is there, but isn’t as clear-cut as some on the left as-sert. As the descendants of immigrants with

memories of the Holocaust always present, most Jews are generally supportive of immi-gration and sympathetic even to those who are here illegally. But there is a difference between those principles and support for open borders, as well as opposition to enforcing the laws. When synagogues declare themselves “sanctuaries” for illegals and some Jewish Community Relations Councils embrace their plight with an enthusiasm that might exceed their level of support for Israel’s positions, the disconnect between Jewish interests (which ought to include the rule of law, as well as compassion for those who violate it) and the stands of those who claim to speak for the Jews remains clear.

Yet as long as 83 percent of Jews are in favor of legal abortion and only 28 percent oppose something like the Iran deal, liberal-leaning groups aren’t wrong to conclude that their members (and much of the community) don’t think there’s anything wrong with them being liberal or partisan.

While the numbers back up these assertions, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Jewish orga-nizations are right to squander their clout and credibility in fights where specifically Jewish issues aren’t at stake. Not all U.S. Jews may be fans of Netanyahu, but support for Israel and the security of the Jewish people as opposed to secular concerns—is a Jewish obligation, not an option. That is something those who claim to speak for the Jews should never forget.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.

Who speaks for the Jews, and why do we let them?

By Micah Q. Jones

(Camera on Campus via JNS)—As the U.S. Air Force C-17 left Afghan airspace, I allowed myself to relax for a brief moment. My year-long tour in Kabul, Afghanistan, was over. Return-ing home, I thought of those fellow soldiers, including my command sergeant major, who had not been so fortunate. In their service to the United States, they had been killed by the Taliban. In remembering them, I thought of the oath that we had all taken: to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

Now, as a former U.S. Army captain and a third-year law student, I have had the oppor-tunity to further study the Constitution and the cases that have expanded and narrowed its original amendments. Particularly with the First Amendment, I have wrestled with whether there should be limits on what can be said. The battles I am currently fighting are no longer with bullets in Kabul, but with ideas in the classroom.

Since entering law school, I have witnessed the vitriol directed at pro-Israel and Zionist students. At my law school, only one side of the story is told. To challenge the Students for Justice in Palestine agenda is to be ostracized among the general student body. In becoming the chair of the Alliance for Israel club, I have put myself at the center of these debates over free speech. I have fought their hate, and what I believe to be virulent anti-Semitism, by hosting pro-Israel and Zionist speakers at the law school.

These collective experiences of serving in the military and being a law student have made me a free speech absolutist. I despise the hateful rhetoric that SJP spews about Israel. I believe, however, that they have a right to voice their opinions, no matter how ignorant. This is because I know that when

Free speech does not include violence

I bring pro-Israel speakers to campus, these groups would want nothing more than for my events to be shut down.

Free speech is a double-edged sword. I am, therefore, fearful of the undefined label of “hate speech” and its infinite ramifications. Such labels can be redirected to causes that I support.

Despite my beliefs regarding freedom of speech, there are, nevertheless, limits to what the First Amendment will protect. In the seminal United States Supreme Court case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, the court overturned the lower courts’ rulings that had found the defendant, an Ohio KKK chapter leader, guilty of violating the Ohio Criminal Syndicalism Act (OCSA). The defendant had been arrested after he gave a speech that degraded Jews and blacks. The Supreme Court held that:

“[T]he constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing immi-nent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action (emphasis added).”

“Imminent” is the operative word. I do not call for UCLA to disinvite the 2018 National SJP Conference to be held on UCLA’s campus from Nov. 16-18. Rather, it is imperative that UCLA and SJP understand the standard articulated in Brandenburg, and put the ap-propriate protections in place to prevent any possibility of physical violence from occurring. This means that UCLA administrators and SJP National Conference organizers need to educate themselves on the past violence that has occurred after SJP rallies.

There are numerous cases of anti-Semitic incidents that resulted in physical violence. Many of these include documentation of SJP

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members physically assault-ing pro-Israel and Zionist students.

For example, on April 27, an SJP protest against a pro-Israel event at New York University turned violent when an SJP member “stole an Israel[i] flag [from pro-Israel students] and brought it to the [SJP] protest-ers. [The flag] was ripped, stomped on, defaced with pink chalk and then burned.”

Also at the event, an SJP member “sneaked in during the singing of ‘Hatikva,’ force-fully and hurtfully grabbed the microphone from the [pro-Israel student] who had been holding it, and shouted, ‘Free Palestine!’” The “SJP’s president explained the be-havior of the protesters to Washington Square News saying, ‘We’re not going to let them stand by and support Zionism. Our point is to make being Zionist uncomfortable on the NYU campus.’”

Andrew Gillum to Dream Defenders and then goes on to tell us all of the negative things related to Israel the organization does. The ex-trapolation, therefore is that Gillum is himself anti-Israel. What he fails to say is that Gillum is not a member of this organization nor closely allied with them. He supports their fight for human rights. They were in our own community protesting against Trayvon Martin’s murder. But Mayor Gillum does not support their positions on Israel. I wonder if those who stand with evangelicals support of Israel should be accused of supporting all of the issues these evangelicals believe in, many of which the Jewish community strongly opposes?

Here are the facts. Andrew

Gillum is on record against BDS, has been to Israel three times, once while missiles were launched into Israel and was deeply affected by this. He has connected Tallahas-see to a sister city in Israel. A very close rabbinic colleague of mine in Tallahassee has known Mayor Gillum for 15 years and over the years has told me of the mayor’s strong support of Israel.

But even more despicable to me is accusing Chris King of being anti-Semitic: A charge that should not be taken lightly. This conclu-sion is based upon a single foolish statement he made at 19 years of age. He has apologized and repented for this statement right after it happened. There is absolutely no other evidence to make

this claim. But here are the facts. I know Chris King and his family. He is one of the most open, compassion-ate and embracing strongly religious people I know. He maternal grandfather was a physician in World War II and liberated a concentration camp. That experience deeply affected his grandfather and he taught it to his children, including Chris’s mother Marilyn. She went on a quest to understand how the Chris-tianity she loved could do that to Jews. She served on the board of The Holocaust Cen-ter, was involved in bringing Elie Wiesel to Orlando, and taught her children to ensure that this would never happen again. Chris is very close to many in our own Jewish com-munity confiding in them

like family. Do these facts sound like someone who is anti-Semitic? It is unworthy and mean spirited to make such charges in order to scare the Jewish community away from him.

This is not about suggest-ing the way people should vote. In fact, I would say the same thing about those who have accused Representative Ron DeSantis of being a white supremacist and a racist. Do not draw conclusions until you know the facts. Judaism has a long history of this and it is an important lesson in order to maintain standards and norms in a society that seems to be drifting away from these.

Rabbi Steven Engel is co-host of Friends Talking Faith with The Three Wise Guys.

By Rabbi Steven Engel

Rabbinic debate has a long history in Judaism. In that spirit, I am responding respectfully to Rabbi San-ford’s Olshansky’s article in the Heritage accusing Mayor Andrew Gillum of being anti-Israel and Chris King of being anti-Semitic. Both charges are extremely serious and

should not be made without full investigation, knowing all of the facts, and speaking to those who personally know them. Truth is a basic value in Judaism and we are not permitted to accuse someone of something that is not true in order to create fear of that person. How often this has been done to us as Jews!

Rabbi Olshanky connects

By Daniel Siryoti

(Israel Hayom via JNS)—Is-raeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced on Saturday that he was stopping the newly resumed supply of fuel and gas to the Gaza Strip, and added: “As long as the violence on the Gaza border does not come to a complete halt, including sending burn-ing balloons over the fence and setting tires on fire near Israeli communities located near Gaza, Israel will not be resupplying the Gaza Strip with fuel or gas.”

On the other hand, Hamas leaders claim daily that the “marches of return on the border will end only when the siege on Gaza is lifted.” On Saturday, head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Hani-yeh even declared that “we appreciate the efforts to throw off the siege, but we will not accept partial solutions. The martyrs’ blood will not be spilled in vain. The marches will not end until the siege on Gaza is thrown off.”

The Hamas and Palestin-ian Authority leadership, like many in Israel and through-out the world, argue that steps Israel and Egypt have taken against the Hamas regime in Gaza are causing immense suffering to the million-and-a-half residents of Gaza, who they say are “living in the larg-est prison in the world.” One of

the harshest critics of Israel’s policy is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who constantly repeats that “not so much as a crate of tomatoes can be shipped to Gaza with-out Israel’s approval.”

Is the Israeli-Egyptian “siege” on the Gaza Strip the main reason for the serious humanitarian crisis there? The answer is an unequivo-cal “no,” despite the repeated declarations by the Palestin-ians and their supporters that Israel and Egypt are choking the population.

The facts show a differ-ent picture. There is neither a siege nor a blockade in place on Gaza, other than the limitations demanded when dealing with a terrorist organization that has been in charge of Gaza and its population since 2007, when it seized power in a violent coup in which it expelled and executed Fatah officials and their families.

A fter the putsch, the Hamas regime announced that it was tossing out all the security agreements and ad-denda to them that had been signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority regard-ing Gaza. In response, the Israeli government declared Gaza “hostile territory.” Is-rael put major limitations on the shipment of goods into Gaza; barred Palestinians from moving between Gaza

and the P.A., as well as trade between the West Bank and Gaza. Israel also shut down all maritime entrance to and exits from Gaza and declared severe restrictions on its legal fishing areas.

However, despite declar-ing Gaza “hostile territory”; despite the military conflicts Israel waged against Hamas and the other armed factions in Gaza; despite the unceasing terrorist activity waged from Gaza; Israel always took care to allow 100 trucks carrying goods and fuel into Gaza every day.

Meanwhile, the Egyptians are also playing a part in the supposed “siege” on Gaza.

Until the events of the Arab Spring of 2011 and the revolts in Egypt that ousted first former President Hosni Mubarak and then Muslim Brotherhood-elected Presi-dent Mohammad Morsi from power, Egypt allowed goods and people to pass through the Rafah crossing. But as the smuggling tunnels at Rafah multiplied and the Sinai-based terrorist groups gained in strength—not to mention the 2008 incident in which operatives from Hamas’s military branch, the Izzedine al-Qassam Bri-gades—breached the Rafah border fence and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Egypt—the Egyptians decided to close

the Rafah crossing entirely to the movement of people and goods.

The events of the Mami Marmora flotilla in May 2010, in which Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish vessel car-rying pro-Palestinian activ-ists and killed several in the ensuing violence, prompted Israel to change its maritime blockade policy and make it significantly easier to move people and goods into and out of Gaza. In effect, since Janu-

ary 2011, Israel has allowed hundreds of trucks into Gaza each day. These trucks are carrying all sorts of goods, other than construction materials and items classed as dual-use, such as certain types of fertilizer that can be used to make bombs or am-munition, drones, or other electronic equipment that could be used for terrorist activity.

Israel has even allowed trade between Gaza and the

West Bank, as well as exports of various items from Gaza to Israel and other countries. The only policy that has remained in place is the ban on Gazans entering Israel, other than humanitarian and specially approved cases. It should be noted that the only goods crossing between Israel and Gaza is Kerem Sha-lom, now that Rafah is being opened only occasionally by the Egyptians.

Who is calling that a siege?

The facts belie the claims of ‘siege’

By Amnon Lord

(JNS)—Given the rising tensions on the Israel-Gaza border, it is time we ask Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-tanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman: How many times can you threaten Hamas? How many times can you say “Somebody stop me” before your credibility, as well as the military’s ability to ef-fectively generate deterrence, will be completely eroded?

The Palestinians have marked significant propa-ganda achievements over the past seven months. Islamic Jihad has declared that its operatives will not allow any normalcy for the border-adja-cent Israeli communities, and Hamas’s weekly border riots and arson terrorism campaign have severely undermined Israeli sovereignty on the southern frontier.

Israel may be willing to tol-erate some things to avoid an unnecessary military conflict, but the fact that Palestinian terrorism dictates the daily routine of Israelis living near the border cannot be one of them.

Moreover, it seems Hamas has schooled Israel in the art of deceptive diplomacy. For months, Egypt and U.N. Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov have been trying to broker a ceasefire between Israel and the Islamist terror-ist group, only to see Hamas leaders go back and forth.

Now, when Israel seems determined to take action, Hamas leader Ismail Hani-yeh suddenly declares that progress has been achieved in the indirect talks. As a result, Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel plans to visit Israel and Gaza this week, so is this the right time to launch a military campaign in the coastal enclave?

Israel, it seems, has been made dizzy by the number of factors it must take into consideration. These include Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, the hu-manitarian situation in Gaza, Iran’s regional ambitions, the “deal of the century” the United States is working on and for which Hamas’s leaders seem willing to sacrifice the masses hurling themselves at the security fence weekly and

last, but not least, the looming Israeli elections.

The correct course of ac-tion would probably be to relinquish the futile attempts to understand the Palestinian mindset. A ceasefire deal may be brewing on the horizon, but it does not seem like a viable option at this time, especially when any mention of a truce always seeks to tie Israel’s hands.

Sometimes you have to go with your gut and experience has shown that the Israeli re-action must significantly ex-ceed what appears necessary. Statements like Netanyahu made on Sunday, saying “If Hamas has any sense, it will cease its fire and its violence right now,” are a commit-ment. If we have passed the point of no return, then surely we have reached the point of “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”

Amnon Lord, is an Israeli journalist with the daily news-paper Makor Rishon. His ar-ticles and essays about media, film and politics have been published in The Jerusalem Post, Mida, Azure, Nativ and Achshav.

Actions speak louder than words

This incident is only one in a series of documented physical assaults against pro-Israel and Zionist students. In opening its campus to the 2018 SJP National Conference, UCLA becomes an inviting location for such physical violence to occur. In viewing the Bran-denburg standard, one can debate the imminence of such violence. What is more likely than not, however, is that in the wake of such SJP rallies, violence is more likely to occur.

In hosting this event, UCLA and the 2018 National SJP Conference should be held accountable for any physical violence that their conference attendees commit. Preparing for the worst, UCLA should have ample campus security in place to prevent SJP attendees from engaging in violent acts. UCLA should have designated protest areas. They should also have a zero-tolerance policy for any physical violence or destruction of property that occurs during the conference.

In addition, the 2018 Na-tional SJP Conference orga-nizers need to understand that, yes, they can lie all they want about Israel and Zion-ism, but direct, immediate calls for physical violence are not legally protected. They should be held liable for any physical violence to Jewish, pro-Israel or Zionist students and structures during and immediately following the 2018 National SJP Conference at UCLA.

Once the line is crossed be-tween hateful rhetoric, which is protected, and physical violence, which is not, campus authorities should react ap-propriately and arrest those physically violent offenders.

Contributed by Micah Q. Jones, a third-year law student at Northeastern Uni-versity School of Law. Before law school, Micah served more than five years in the U.S. Army. He is currently the chair of NUSL’s Alliance for Israel (AFI) club.

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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley talked about some of the behind-the-scenes deal-ings with her boss, President Donald Trump, as well as foreign envoys in a closed-door meeting of the politi-cally conservative Council for National Policy, Harper’s Magazine reported.

The diplomat revealed de-tails about confrontations she had with some of America’s most notorious adversaries, including North Korea.

To pass sanctions in the U.N. Security Council against that Communist state, Haley resorted to the “madman theory,” a political theory from the Nixon administration used to make leaders of hostile na-tions think the U.S. leader was irrational and volatile.

“My boss is kind of unpre-

dictable, and I don’t know what he’ll do.” That’s what she said to her Chinese coun-terpart, Haley told the group.

“I tell the president, ‘I do this all the time,’” Haley said, “and he totally gets it.”

Haley also provided back-ground about her acceptance of the job of ambassador two years ago.

“I told [Trump], ‘Honestly, I don’t even know what the U.N. does,’” she said.

“I finally decided that I could take the job, but with a few conditions,” she noted. “I told the president I wanted to be a cabinet secretary. And he said, ‘I can do that.’ I said I wanted to serve on his National Security Council. ‘Done.’ Then I said I’m not going to be a wallflower or a spokesperson. I want to be able to have a decision-making role and give my advice on policy. And he said, ‘Done!’”

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Many top-level evangeli-cal Christians belong to the group, which is considered pro-Israel.

Haley reveals details about Trump, Israel

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Touro Synagogue.

By Marilyn Shapiro

Simchas and celebrations are wonderful, but New Or-leans celebrates every day of the year. A city brimming with restaurants, clubs, and street musicians, it was clear to see why The Big Easy is listed consistently in the top five party cities in the United States.

First and foremost, it is a city for foodies. The minute my husband, Larry, and I got into the shuttle taking us and our four friends to our bed and breakfast, our driver, Ryan, started listing all the restaurants we needed to try. “Cafe Du Monde for breakfast; Napoleon’s for lunch; Arn-auds for dinner; Dragos for a snack; Mothers for the debris Po’Boys; Rum House for tacos; Dat Dogs for franks...”

“How many times can we eat in one day?” I asked as I quickly scribbled down the names.

The answer is—errr—more than three. Our first din-ner was at the Cochon, where I experienced the milder Creole food while Larry got a mouth-ful of the hotter Cajun style. We then headed down to Royal and Bourbon Streets, the heart of the evening action. At the Spotted Cat, we listened to a fantastic jazz combo and even got an unexpected treat. The group’s leader announced that his wife had just arrived from Paris. Accompanied by the clarinet, bass, and sax, she sang a beautiful rendition of “La Vie en Rose,” Edith Piaf’s signature song.

The next morning, we took

a two-hour walking tour of the French Quarter. Our guide, Kathy, a New Orleans native, laced her information with colorful stories of the founders, the builders, the business owners, and famous New Orleanians: musicians Louis Armstrong and B. B. King; writers Truman Capote, William Faulkner, and Ten-nessee Williams; the pirate Jean LaFitte, and Chef Emeril Lagasse

When I asked about the Jewish inf luence, Kathy shared stories about the city’s famous Jews. Judah Touro funded both the synagogue and hospital that bears his name. Malcolm Woldenberg, a New Orleans businessman, is honored for philanthropy in a park that holds the city’s Holocaust Memorial. Allan and Sandra Jaffee, natives of Philadelphia, in 1961 turned an art gallery used for occa-sional concerts into Preserva-tion Hall, forevermore beloved by jazz musicians and fans from around the world.

For lunch, we each sampled the muffuletta, a sandwich that is made with Italian charcuterie and a spicy Cre-ole olive salad, al fresco at the Napoleon. An hour later, we boarded the Steamboat Natchez, one of only two true steam powered sternwheelers on the Mississippi River today. On our two-hour ride, we had a good view of another of New Orlean’s nickname, Crescent City, as the land sits like a crescent shaped bowl on the banks of the river. We went past industrial parks reflect-ing the economic importance

Football, food, synagogues and a museum in a whirlwind trip

The National World War II Museum.

of the river, areas still recover-ing from Hurricane Katrina in 2007, and lovely homes almost hidden by rebuilt levees that locals hope will never breach again.

After the ride, we stopped at Cafe Beignet for the world-famous square pastries. Once finished, we hauled our con-fectionary-sugar-covered bodies to Drago’s for dinner. After a walk back from Riv-erwalk, we headed back for a swim and a soak in our B&B’s hot tub before our exhausted bodies fell into bed.

The next day’s Garden Tour added to our appreciation of another view of New Orleans. Originally developed by the French to keep those pesky Americans out of the French Quarter, the Garden District is known for its tree-lined streets, palatial homes, and fine dining.

We toured the Lafayette cemetery, an egalitarian final resting place for Christians and Jews; rich and poor;

and, unfortunately due to multiple outbreaks of yellow fever throughout the city’s earlier history, the very young and very old. Because of the high water table, all remains are interred in family or organization tombs above ground, including one for destitute children and one for firefighters.

We then were escorted past the homes of other famous city residents, including San-dra Bullock, John Goodman, and, the most popular, the Manning family of football fame.

After tacos at The Rum House, we all boarded the St. Charles streetcar for a ride past Touro Synagogue, Audubon Park, and Loyola and Tulane universities. Our timing was perfect as it started raining soon after we boarded and came down in torrents until shortly before we de-parted. My only regret that weekend was that Larry and I hadn’t chiseled out time to

check out the synagogue and meet with one of its rabbis, Todd Silverman, who is the son of long-time friends from Upstate New York.

Our final dinner was at Arnaud’s, a beautiful five-star restaurant off Royal Street. We had reservations in the Jazz Room, where the food, service, and ambiance were wonder-ful. Our meal was enhanced by a three-piece jazz band that at one point stopped by each of the tables to take requests. Larry’s choice of “Sweet Geor-gia Brown” was a hit.

The next morning, we all made a dash over to the Na-tional World War II Museum to view as much as we could in the two-hour window before we headed back to the airport. Yes, New Orleans is known for its music and food, but this museum is ranked by TripAdvisor as the top attrac-tion in the city, named by USA Today as the “#1 Best Place to Learn U.S. Military History,” and designated by Congress

as America’s official museum about World War II. Artifacts and videos brought the ter-rible war and its history to life.

We had arranged for Ryan, our original driver, to pick us up at the bed and breakfast. We gave him a rundown of all the restaurants we had man-aged to eat our way through in three days. Then Larry and he discussed that night’s up-coming New Orleans Saints/Washington Redskins game. Before boarding our flight, two of our friends tasted po’ boy sandwiches and the rest of us ate pralines, two of the few specialties that we hadn’t consumed in the past 72 hours. It was time to leave The Big Easy—but there was one more surprise left.

Larry and I got home in time to throw in some laundry and turn on the New Orleans Saints and Washington Red-skins football game. Drew Brees, another hometown

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PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, OCTOBER 26, 2018

By Lisa Levine

When Mae Weisman was in a skilled-nursing facility, recuperating from a recent illness, it was only natural for her to miss doing the things she enjoys. One of the things she most looked forward to upon returning home to Brookdale Island Lake is the weekly Shabbat service led by Jewish Pavilion volunteers.

Although the Jewish Pavil-ion had occasional programs and friendly visits at the nurs-ing facility, Weisman missed having the weekly Shabbat program to look forward to.

“This is the most warm-ing, satisfying thing that I find here, is my services on Friday,” Weisman said after a recent Island Lake Shabbat. She praised the enthusiasm and dedication of the volun-teers: “The men and women really have such a feeling for Yiddishkeit!”

An Orlando resident since 1970, Weisman has lived at Brookdale Island Lake for three and a half years. She is a fixture at the Friday Shabbat programs, which help her re-connect to the customs she’s observed all her life.

She also looks forward to the other Jewish Pavilion programs, including holiday celebrations. She said she is especially warmed to see the

Mae Weisman (l) at Brookdale Island Lake with Jewish Pavilion volunteer Shirley Schoenberger.

Celebrating Shabbat brings feelings of community

annual Passover Seder, led by Paul Stenzler and Terri Fine, pack the house year after year.

“They do such a beautiful job,” she said. “My children come, and they’re awed!”

Josefin Dolsten

Participants in the Yiddish class for dogs were given a sheet that showed commands in the mamaloshen.

By Josefin Dolsten

NEW YORK (JTA)—Dogs and their owners are a com-mon sight in Central Park on the weekend, but there was something different about the group gathered on the grass on a recent Sunday morning.

The approximately 20 peo-ple could be seen and heard pointing at the ground while yelling “zits” and “shtai” and urging their dogs to “shpring” over hurdles.

A group of befuddled visi-tors from Canada who stopped by to ask what was going on seemed even more confused when they learned the answer: This was a Yiddish course. For dogs.

Sponsored by the Work-men’s Circle, the Jewish cultural society founded in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking immigrants, the workshop was a chance for dog owners to learn a little Yiddish while schmoozing with fellow pet owners. Yiddishist Leyzer Burko taught the course with dog trainer Miguel Rodriguez.

The fusion of German,

Hebrew and Aramaic—once the language of millions of Jews from Eastern Europe but now mainly spoken by haredi Orthodox Jews—seemed to come easy to some of the canines.

Jofi, a 3-year-old brown and white Cavalier King Charles spaniel, took a particular liking to the word “shpring,” happily leaping over hurdles upon command.

“She seems to be picking up pretty quickly on the com-mands,” kvelled Alexandra Straytner, who came to the course from the Morningside Heights section of Manhat-tan with her fiancé, Zachary Levine.

“We’re having a lot of fun,” Levine said. “Jofi has a bit of a barking problem, but I think she’s enjoying it.”

Other canines were less eager to follow commands in the mamaloshen.

Bibi, a tiny 7-year-old white Shorkie, mostly sat on the grass watching the other dogs respond to commands.

“She’s a bit of a Jewish diva,” said her owner, Joanne Freed.

The Upper West Side resi-

Want to teach your dog Yiddish? There’s a class for that

said teaching her dog com-mands in Yiddish was both fun and useful.

“I kind of like it more than the English now,” said Raykher, who lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. “It’s more fun. Also, it will probably be nice in the park when everybody is yelling ’Go! Stay! Stop!’ [to yell] ‘Zits!’”

Ann Toback, the executive director of the Workmen’s Circle, said there are a few

other advantages to speaking to dogs in Yiddish.

Using a language different than the one the dog hears in everyday speech makes the command more effective, said Toback, who came up with the idea for the course and offered it for the first time last year. (Sunday’s workshop sold out.)

The fact that people love speaking in Yiddish also helps, she said.

“When most of us are using Yiddish, it makes us happy

and we’re conveying that to the dogs,” Toback said while standing next to her dog Jesse.

Beyond dogs, Toback also hopes the course can help encourage people to celebrate the language’s rich history.

“Too much we forget the thousand years of high cul-ture because of the tragedy of how Yiddish ended in Eastern Europe,” she said, “but recon-necting to that, reconnecting to our heritage, to our hearts, is really part of this.”

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dent wasn’t exactly surprised, since Bibi had yet to master commands in English. Still, Freed was happy the dog got to hear some Yiddish.

“She’s adopted, but it’s her heritage,” she said with a laugh.

Pairing Yiddish and dogs may seem strange today, but it would have been even more unusual 100 years ago, said Burko, who received a doctor-ate in modern Jewish history from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

Eastern European Jews historically were wary of dogs because they associated them with less-than-friendly landowners and aristocrats, he said.

That gave rise to expres-sions such as “A hunt iz vert dem shtekn,” meaning a dog deserves (to be beaten with) the stick and “a karger hunt,” which literally translates to “a stingy dog” and was used to mean a miser.

Biblical and rabbinic sourc-es also associate dogs with negative qualities such as uncleanliness and violence.

But owners at the Central Park event were quick to praise, telling their canines “Gut” (rhymes with boot) instead of “good” and hand-ing out treats when the dogs did as told.

Hannah Raykher was schepping plenty of nachas from her dog Archie Drucker, a 3-year-old black and white Havanese who seemed to be mastering the “zits” com-mand.

Raykher, 17, who came to the workshop with her family,

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Sudoku (see page 14A for solution)

Not a surprise to me...In my opinion, some of the smartest brains on earth belong

to Israelis, especially when it comes to medicine and science. For instance, they are so advanced in the cures for some of our major diseases and conditions and, when it comes to science... well, read this next article:

“As announced by SpaceIL and reported in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, an Israeli spacecraft will launch in December with a goal of landing on the moon next February.

Founded in 2011, SpaceIL is an Israeli nonprofit organiza-tion and one of five finalists for Google’s Lunar XPRIZE. The competition originally announced in 2007, whittled down the five finalists from 33 original teams.

SpaceIL said its team was at the ‘most advanced’ stage with regard to landing a probe on the surface of the moon, bringing Israel closer to ‘joining the prestigious circle of the three superpowers that have managed to reach the moon: the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China.’

The spacecraft will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in December and is expected to land on Feb. 13, 2019, complet-ing its mission in two days. The probe will collect data to be studied at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.

(That reminds me... because of my husband’s work on NASA’s Gemini and Apollo programs, I was invited to the Cape to view the launch of Apollo 11. I couldn’t attend though, because I was due to give birth to my third child any day. So, I was invited to the launch of Apollo 12 at the Cape and sat on the stands near President Nixon. He was very unfriendly toward me but his Secret Service detail was very nice! That was 49 years ago but I remember it well!)COS Seniors...

On Sunday, Nov. 4, in the Congregation Ohev Shalom social hall beginning at 2 p.m., the COS Seniors will present a wonderful talent, JACK MICCI, who will per-form songs of the 1950s thru the 1970s.

From Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin... from Rock and Roll to Coun-try and much more... is on the agenda.

Jack is a versatile singer, with a four-octave voice range and a talented guitar player. Folks are encouraged to bring their dancing shoes!

Admission is $5 per mem-ber; $8 for others. Everyone is welcome.

After the musical perfor-mance, there will be complimentary desserts and drinks.

For further information, phone COS Senior’s president JERRY LEIBMAN at 407-694-0546.Jewish Pavilion Mensch...

“We are so excited to honor JUDY SUBERMAN at JP Connection on Dec. 6th,” says NANCY LUDIN, CEO of the Jewish Pavilion. She adds, ”Judy is such a mensch that we had difficulty convincing her to accept this honor. Judy has volunteered for the Jewish Pavilion for the entire 10 years I have been the executive,” said Ludin.

Judy’s beloved mother of blessed memory, lived at Atria Senior Living. Judy visited regularly and assisted with all Pavilion activities such as Shabbat services and holiday festivities. Soon she was leading these programs.

Judy befriended many of the residents at Atria and visited them each time she came to see her mother. When her mother passed, Judy continued to visit with her mother’s friends. When one of them moved to Spring Hills of Lake Mary, Judy began to visit there as well.

Today, she leads services in both buildings.For the Suberman’s, volunteering is a family affair. Over

the years, RON, RACHEL and JACOB assisted at many Shab-bat dinners and visited residents.

Judy Suberman brings her warm personality and Jewish knowledge to the table. She always comes well prepared with information about each holiday which she gladly shares with the residents and staff.

“They absolutely adore her,” says Ludin.(I want the honor of meeting Judy. She sounds heaven-sent.)

Welcome to Orlando...At the recent COS Seniors meeting and show, I had the

privilege of meeting two wonderful people, BOBBIE and NICK CHASE who were in town from their home in Mas-sachusetts.

They own a condo in town and were here to fix it up. They normally spend a few weeks each winter in Florida and, especially because they are such lovely folks as well as dog lovers, I can’t wait to become friends with them!

On this trip they are boarding their two beautiful Leon-berger dogs back up north, but I hope to meet them in the future!

(I love dogs as much as I love people!!)JCC39ers Cinema Sundays...

On Oc. 28, the movie “Loving” with Joel Edgerton will be shown in the Maitland JCC Senior Lounge. Refreshments will be available.JCC39ers Meet & Mingle Mondays...

On Oct. 29 at 1 p.m. in the Maitland JCC Senior Lounge, “Laughter Yoga” will be presented by DANA KAPLAN.

Refreshments will be served.One for the road...

Freda says to her daughter, “Ever since I reached 65, Lisa, I’d been feeling that my body had gotten totally out of shape. So I made a big decision - I went to my doctor and got his OK to start doing some exercise. And yesterday I went to LA Fitness and booked into their aerobics class for seniors.”

“That was brave of you, mom, so how did you get on?” asks Lisa.

“Well, for 30 minutes I sweated by bending, twisting, pull-ing, pushing and hopping up and down. But then, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over.”

Judy Suberman

Jack Micci

(BBC Watch via JNS)—The Israel Security Agen-cy’s report on terror at-tacks (Hebrew) during Sep-tember 2018 shows that throughout the month a total of 204 incidents took place: 70 in Judea and Sa-maria, 10 in Jerusalem and 124 in the Gaza Strip.

In Judea and Samaria, and in Jerusalem, the agency recorded 61 attacks with petrol bombs, eight attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs), seven arson attacks, one shooting attack and three stabbings.

Incidents recorded in Gaza included 66 attacks with petrol bombs, 35 at-tacks using IEDs and 23 grenade attacks. There were no cases of rocket or mortar fire during September.

One civilian was mur-dered and one member of

BBC refuses to cover terror attacks

the security forces was wounded in attacks that took place during Sep-tember. The BBC News website did not produce any coverage at the time of the fatal stabbing in Gush Etzion on Sept. 16, but mentioned it a week later in a subsequent report.

The “Great Return March”

violent rioting along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, including the incident in which a sol-dier was injured in a grenade attack along on Sept. 21, was not the topic of any dedicated BBC News website news reports throughout the month.

In summary, visitors to

the BBC News website saw very belated coverage of just one (0.49 percent) of the 204 terror incidents which took place during September.

Since the beginning of 2018, the BBC has reported 19.9 percent of the terror attacks that have actually taken place and 88.9 percent of the resulting fatalities.

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Marwan Kenzari (l), and Hannah Ware in “The Angel.” Kenzari plays Egyptian spy Ashraf Marwan.

lives in Los Angeles—came to the project two years ago, when an Israeli producer gave him an early draft of the screenplay, based on Uri Bar-Joseph’s popular book, “The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel.” (Marwan’s code name was The Angel.) But after reading the book, Vromen was at first reluctant to direct the movie.

“I felt it was very one-sided... a very coherent story but told from the Israeli point of view,” he said. “So I started to use a lot of my relation-ships in the Arab world to get into the Egyptian side of the story.”

One of Marwan’s best friends eventually served as a valuable source of informa-tion for the film.

Vromen regards Marwan as a hero for Israel who had more complex motivations beyond the notion of helping to create peace in the Middle East.

“His motivation early on was as a young man who was poor, lost and humiliated by his father-in-law,” the film-maker said. Nasser apparently viewed Marwan with disdain, due in part to his dearth of funds at the time and his family’s lack of status, Vro-men said.

“I’m very confident that when he first approached the Mossad it was an avenging emotional path,” the film-maker added.

It was also partly a merce-nary decision.

“I don’t know of any spy who didn’t want to be paid,” Vromen said.

In fact, the filmmaker continued, Marwan used his Mossad fees to create the seeds of what would become a $3 billion business empire by the time of his death.

Netflix film ‘The Angel’ spotlights Egyptian spy who helped Israel

Nick Briggs/Netflix

Ashraf Marwan (top center) with Egyptian President An-war Sadat (seated, left) and Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi (seated right).

By Naomi Pfefferman

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—In 1993, filmmaker Ariel Vro-men was part of an Israeli air force rescue unit sent in to Lebanon to evacuate both Jewish and Arab soldiers wounded during a battle. During the fighting, two of Vromen’s closest friends died in front of his eyes.

For several months after-ward, he suffered debilitat-ing post-traumatic stress disorder. But Vromen, now 45, took solace knowing that he and his fellow troops were “under a certain oath to take care of soldiers from Lebanon or Syria as much as we would give attention to Jews and Is-raelis,” he said in a telephone interview.

Vromen also recalled the disconnect of fighting just be-yond Israel’s northern border, when he would be “laughing

and playing backgammon, and then in less than 30 minutes we’d find ourselves in a battle zone or a disaster area,” he recalled.

The contradictory nature of his military service is one rea-son Vromen (best known for directing the American thrill-er “The Iceman”) was drawn to direct the spy thriller “The Angel,” which premiered on Netflix Sept. 14. The film spot-lights the enigmatic Egyptian Ashraf Marwan, a confidant of President Anwar Sadat who eventually turned into a spy for Israel. He famously warned the Mossad about the planned Arab surprise attack that started the Yom Kippur War in 1973, preventing what could have been even greater Israeli casualties.

Ashraf Marwan (played in the film by Marwan Ken-zari) was the son-in-law of Egypt’s President Gamal

Abdel Nasser and later be-came close with Nasser’s successor, Sadat. Yet one day in the 1960s, he called the Israeli embassy from a telephone booth in London and offered his services as a spy. The Mossad enlisted his efforts, and Marwan passed valuable information to the Israelis, putting his life in se-rious danger along the way.

In 2007, several years after he was publicly outed as a spy, Marwan fell to his death from a balcony in London at the age of 63—which may or may not have been suicide. Vromen, for his part, said he believes Marwan’s death was a murder, given that the suspicious guests—various Egyptian diplomats, arms dealers and dissidents over the years—have been chalked up as “death by balcony.”

The filmmaker—who was raised near Tel Aviv but now

Marwan’s fortunes began to shift after Nasser died and he became a close aide to Sadat, with access to state secrets. As he became more successful, his motivation to spy shifted towards creat-ing “a path to make peace between the countries,” Vro-men theorized.

“I really think he was also putting all his efforts to serve Sadat,” the director added. “He knew the only way for the president to sustain power would be if he could [persuade] the Israelis to give the Sinai back to the Egyptians.”

Even so, a number of Egyp-tians so far have criticized Vromen’s movie on social and other media platforms.

The Egyptians have long claimed that Marwan was a cunning double agent who actually duped the Israelis into funding expensive war

mobilization efforts in two false alarms prior to the 1973 war.

Many Egyptians have dis-missed the film as Israeli propaganda and denounced Vromen’s casting of an Is-raeli actor to portray Sadat. Vromen counters that he at first approached a number of Egyptian actors who refused to participate in the film.

“Egyptians have cold feet about the movie,” he said. “The assumption is that because I’m an Israeli, I am biased.”

But Vromen insists he at-tempted to show both coun-tries’ side of the story.

“When I analyzed the character, money was a huge part of his persona,” he said. “But I don’t believe he could have risked what he risked, eventually, if he didn’t have a bigger cause.”

By Josefin Dolsten

NEW YORK (JTA)—Su-preme Court Justice Elena Kagan, appearing at a Jewish day school in Brooklyn, spoke about her Jewish background and how her family jumped from synagogue to syna-gogue.

“I had a very strange Jewish upbringing actually,” Kagan, 58, told journalist Dahlia Lithwick, who moderated

the Wednesday evening con-versation. “You would think Lincoln Square Synagogue, she comes from a Modern Orthodox family. Actually my family didn’t really know what it was.”

Though Kagan had her bat mitzvah at that Mod-ern Orthodox synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, she did not grow up in a strictly observant household, the associate justice told an

Matthew Sussman for Hannah Senesh Community Day School

Elena Kagan (l) speaking with journalist Dahlia Lithwick at the Hannah Senesh Com-munity Day School in Brooklyn, Sept. 12, 2018.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan says she had ‘a very strange Jewish upbringing’

audience of about 280 at the Hannah Senesh Community Day School.

Kagan said her mother grew up in “an extremely, extremely religious family,” but had abandoned many aspects of Jewish observance by the time she had children.

“[We] kept a kosher home so that my grandparents would eat there, but otherwise we were the kind of Jews who kept a kosher home and then went out and ordered shrimp at the Chinese restaurant,” the jurist recalled.

Before Lincoln Square, the family was members of B’nai Jeshurun, which belonged to the Conservative movement (today the congregation is unaffiliated) and Congrega-tion Rodeph Sholom, a Reform synagogue.

“My mother’s view was that everything depended on how good the rabbi was, and she would go from synagogue to synagogue to synagogue to find a rabbi she liked,” Kagan said.

Kagan said she “loved” attending Hebrew school at Lincoln Square, but hit a snag when she realized the synagogue, then led by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, had not allowed a girl to have a bat mitzvah ceremony.

“It was 1973 and they’d

never done such things, and it was this kind of process of negotiation to try to get them to even get it into their heads that this was a possibility, and it was sort of a disappointment because I didn’t get to do all the stuff my brother had done,” she said.

In the end, Kagan had a bat mitzvah ceremony on Friday evening rather than the typical Saturday morning, and chanted from the Book of Ruth instead of the haftarah and Torah portions.

“It was a little bit not exactly what I wanted,” she said. “But

I have to say that they came a super long way even to do that in those days at that sort of synagogue, so I give them a lot of kudos for that.”

At the day school event, Kagan noted that she is one of three Jewish justices now sitting on the Supreme Court (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer are the others). Some thought that President Barack Obama would not nominate Kagan in 2010 because she would be the third Jewish justice on a nine-member court, she said.

“As far as I know it never came up in the decision-making process that he used, and it really never came up as I went through the process that leads to confirmation, so I think it’s something that’s kind of a great thing,” Kagan said.

The jurist mostly skirted political topics at Wednesday’s discussion, but she did ad-dress what she described as a “danger” for the Supreme Court today. In the recent past, Kagan said, the court has

Kagan on page 15A

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Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www.JewishCelebration.org; 407-566-9792.

Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m.

Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407-280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com.

Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www.jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m.

Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, 321-777-2770.

Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644-2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month.

Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www.betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.

Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www.congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.

Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.

Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m.

Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m.

Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www.bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website.

Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.

Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.

Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.

Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m.

Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722.Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298-

4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935-

0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m.Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for

services and holiday schedules.Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation-

sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m.Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis-

Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv Please call for times.

Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka-Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.

Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484.Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882.Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat

service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www.

mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, 10:00 a.m.

Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m.

Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m.Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org;

Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m.Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494.Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service,

Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m.Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www.

templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by Torah study.

Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m.

Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www.shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m.

Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, 7:30 p.m.

Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www.tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp.

(R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa

RUTH MOGULRuth Mogul, age 85, of

Maitland, passed away on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, at her residence. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Ruth was born on May 7, 1933, to the late Hy-man and Jenny Chvenka Rich. Ruth and her husband, Max, who survives her, relocated to the Orlando area from Boston in 1959. The family are long-time members of Congrega-tion Ohev Shalom. Ruth was a successful businesswoman, owning a retail knitting store for many years.

In addition to her husband, Ruth is survived by her daugh-ters, Janet (Tracy) King of Orlando and Lynda Mogul of Winter Park; and her grand-children, Alexis, Miles and Jason. She was predeceased by her son Alan Mogul.

A memorial service was held at Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel with Rabbi David Kay officiating. In memory of Ruth Mogul, the family requests contributions to Hospice of the Comforter, 480 W Central Parkway, Altamonte Spring 32714 www.hospiceofthe-comforter.org or American Cancer Society, PO Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK www.donate3.cancer.org

Arrangements entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Cha-pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL 32810. 407-599-1180.

HELEN MOSKOWITZSubmitted by the family

Helen Moskowitz, age 93, of Miami and formerly of Orlando, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. She was born on March 4, 1925, in Bronx, New York, to William and Kate Schoenberg.

Her husband of 54 years, Arthur, predeceased her in 2006. Her brother, Julian

Schoenberg, passed away in 1993.

Helen was a retired L.P.N.; member of Congregation Ohev Shalom; Life Member of Hadassah; member of Chevrah Kadisha of Cen-tral Florida. She was also a member of the Bikur Cholim Committee of Ohev visiting patients in hospitals and nurs-ing homes.

She had a regular group of friends who exercised bi-weekly. She was an avid reader, loved hearing a good joke and relished retelling it. She was a remarkable woman and the universe will be a little dim-mer without her.

She is survived by her son, Dr. William Moskowitz (Gail) of Richmond, Va., and her daughter, Marge Prenner of Miami. She is also survived by five grandchildren—Rabbi Michael Moskowitz (Naomi), Holly, Andrea (Guy) Katz, Juliana and Dr Stuart Prenner (Stacey); and six great grand-children—Chloe, Nachi, Eyal, Tal, Gilad and Eliana.

Funeral service and inter-ment were held at Congrega-tion Ohev Shalom Cemetery with Rabbi David Kay and Cantor Alan Robuck offici-ating. In memory of Helen Moskowitz, the family re-quests contributions to COS Hebrew School Scholarship Fund, 613 Concourse Parkway So, Maitland 32751 www.ohevshalom.org or Rudlin Torah Academy—Moskowitz Family Legacy Fund, 3809 Patterson Ave., Richmond VA 23221 www.rudlin.com Ar-rangements entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL 32810. 407-599-1180.

JEAN A. RHUBINJean Rhubin, age 69, of

Ocoee, passed away on Oct.12, 2018, at Cornerstone Hospice at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Jean was born on Jan. 18, 1949, in Troy, New York, to the late John and Dolrus Golden. She received her bachelor’s degree from Albany State University and her mas-ter’s degree from SUNY. For many years she worked as a Registered Nurse. On May 24, 1970, in Schenectady, she married Robert M. Rhubin, her husband of over 48 years who survives her. In 2002, Jean and Bob relocated to Clermont from New York and joined Congregation Sinai. In 2014, they moved to Ocoee and joined Congregation Ohev Shalom. After they moved to Central Florida, Jean and Bob became devotees of cruising, taking over 14 Disney cruises. Jean was an accomplished fiber artist creating beautiful pieces for friends and family alike.

In addition to her husband, Bob, Jean is survived by her daughters, Julia Rhubin of Connecticut and Stacy Rhu-bin (Tom Butts) of Walden, New York. She was also the proud grandmother of Hilary, Calvin, Nick and Calvin.

A funeral service was held at the Pavilion at Ohev Sha-lom Cemetery with Rabbi Da-vid Kay officiating. Interment followed in the cemetery. In memory of Jean Rhubin, the family requests contribu-tions to Congregation Ohev Shalom, 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland 32751. www.ohevshalom.org or Houndhaven www.houndhaven.org

Arrangements entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Cha-pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL 32810. 407-599-1180.

for putting my name all over the planet because of your fear of what we represent I can go anywhere in the world—I’m not mad at you because you’re so stupid,” he said at the speech in Detroit. “So when they talk about Far-rakhan, call me a hater—you know what they do—call me an anti-Semite, stop it! I’m anti-termite!”

The audience laughed in response.

“The responsive laughter makes my skin crawl,” Clinton said on Twitter “For everyone who rightly condemned Presi-dent Trump’s rhetoric when he spoke about immigrants ‘infesting our country,’ this rhetoric should be equally unacceptable to you.”

The reference to Trump appeared to be an appeal to leftists who have been outspo-

ken in denouncing President Donald Trump’s bigotry while remaining silent about Farra-khan. Most prominent among these have been leaders of the Women’s March, includ-ing Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez.

Farrakhan has a long his-tory of anti-Semitism, and Clinton’s parents absorbed some criticism in August for appearing with Farrakhan on a stage at music great Aretha Franklin’s funeral.

Chelsea Clinton took flak on social media for the ap-pearance. At the time, she responded by saying her par-ents could not control whom Franklin wanted to attend her funeral, that she denounced anti-Semitism and “I’m not my parents.”

Clinton’s husband, Marc Mezvinsky, is Jewish.

Chelsea Clinton calls out Louis Farrakhan over anti-Semitism

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Chelsea Clinton called Louis Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism “dangerous” and said laughter in response to it “made my skin crawl.”

Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clin-ton and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, was reacting on Twit-ter to a Farrakhan tweet in which the leader of the Nation of Islam said “I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m anti-termite.”

“Comparing Jews to ter-mites is anti-Semitic, wrong and dangerous,” Clinton tweeted Wednesday, quoting Farrakhan.

Twitter, meantime, said it would not suspend Farrakhan from the site. A BuzzFeed re-porter quoted a spokesperson for the company as saying that “Louis Farrakhan’s tweet comparing Jews to termites is not in violation of the com-pany’s policies. The policy on dehumanizing language has not yet been implemented.”

Farrakhan’s tweet posted Tuesday was attached to video of a speech he gave Monday marking the 23rd anniversary of the Million Man March, his 1995 rally advocating empow-erment for black men.

“To the members of the Jewish community that don’t like me, thank you very much

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world history, whose career nevertheless can still be seen as a forebear of current political swings in Europe and the United States. The film, recently selected as her country’s entry into the Os-cars’ foreign film race, opens Friday in New York and gets a national rollout to other cities starting Nov. 16.

In the early 1980s, between Waldheim’s terms as U.N. sec-retary-general and Austrian president, the World Jewish Congress led a campaign to throw a spoke in his political wheel.

An investigation of Wald-heim’s wartime record led by Nazi hunter Eli Rosenbaum revealed that after his service on the Russian front, Wald-heim became an intelligence officer with the German army staff in the Balkans. In that capacity he played a key role in the brutal reprisals against the civilian populations of Yugoslavia and Greece—par-ticularly in the deportation of most of Salonika’s large Jewish population to Nazi death camps. He was also shown to have joined, in November 1938, the SA, the original Nazi paramilitary organization.

The charges, and the deni-als by the Waldheim camp, became a focus of the heated 1986 campaign. Protesters hoisted slogans such as “No to Anti-Semitism, No to Waldheim,” while his sup-porters countered with “We Austrians elect who we want” and “Waldheim, an Austrian who the world trusts.”

Waldheim was known for

Kurt Waldheim in a still from Ruth Beckermann’s film “The Waldheim Waltz.”

Film on Nazi turned Austrian President Kurt Waldheim draws parallels to modern rise of the right

This anti-Waldheim horse statue was erected to protest his 1986 presidential campaign.

By Tom Tugend

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Kurt Waldheim managed an impressive feat: After serving as a soldier and intelligence officer in the Nazi army dur-ing World War II, he was twice elected secretary-general of the United Nations before top-ping off his career as president of his native Austria from 1986 to 1992.

How did he do it?Largely by massaging his

biography to convince the world that he had been merely an ordinary soldier during the war and was following orders. He also persuaded his fellow countrymen and the world that Austria was the first victim of Nazi aggres-sion when native son Adolf Hitler annexed the country in 1938—to nationwide en-thusiasm.

As a popular joke at the time had it, Austrian diplomats

managed to convince the public that Hitler, an Austrian, was a native German and Beethoven, a German, was Austrian.

Nevertheless, by the time Waldheim ran for president in 1986, his war record had come back to haunt him. Among the protesters against his campaign at the time was Ruth Beckermann, a budding Jewish Viennese filmmaker who shot some of the larger Austrian demonstrations against Waldheim and the counter rallies.

Some decades and over a dozen films later—including the very Jewish documenta-ries “Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah” and “Toward Jerusalem”—Beckermann decided to take another look at the earlier footage.

Her new film, “The Wald-heim Waltz,” choreographs the agile steps of one of the odder actors in recent

his love of horses, and one opponent declared with a straight face: “We never be-lieved that Waldheim was a member of the SA—only his horse was.” Another skeptic labeled the candidate’s inabil-ity to remember his wartime activities as a symptom of “Waldheim’s Disease.”

Adding material from ar-chival and current news reports, Beckermann draws a historical line between those events of the 1980s and cur-rent political developments, particularly in Europe but also in the United States.

Describing herself in a phone interview as “half demonstrator, half docu-mentarian”—in addition

to being director, producer, script writer and narrator—Beckermann discerned in the 1986 Austrian election the emergence of a new political force, still alive and growing in our own time.

She said Waldheim’s elec-tion as Austrian president represented one of the first victories of the surging coali-tion forged between tradition-al conservative ideologies and the populist, nativist appeal of vigorous right-wing activists.

Among the current exam-ples of this force, Beckermann said, include the rise of popu-list anti-immigrant leaders in Austria, Poland and Hungary, the Brexit movement in Brit-ain, and reinforced right-wing

constituencies in Israel and France, as well as the election of President Donald Trump in the United States.

During Waldheim’s term as president, he was considered persona non grata by the U.S. and other Western govern-ments (He was allowed in Arab countries and the Vatican, which he visited twice) At his funeral in 2007, then-Austri-an President Heinz Fischer said Waldheim “deserves his lifetime to be seen as a whole.”

Despite her dejected tone, Beckermann discerns a glim-mer of hope.

“The good people will rally—though I don’t know just when,” she said. “Mankind will survive.”

Joe Truzman, follow him on Twitter @Jtruzmah.

By Liel Asulin

(JNS)—Since March, the Gazan border has played host to a series of violent demonstrations. Thousands of rioters, some of whom are armed with hand grenades, Molotov cocktails and sling-shots, regularly amass along the border. As a whole, ma-jor media outlets have failed to accurately and objectively cover the events of the so-

called “March of Return,” and as a result, the truth surrounding the events of the last several months has been largely obfuscated.

Enter Joseph Truzman, known on Twitter simply as “Joe.” What began as a hobby of tracking and documenting various Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip has become the “go to” source for objective coverage of the on-going clashes in the enclave.

“What I do is all about show-ing what is [happening] on the ground without advocating,” said Truzman, who works from Oregon. “I want a good representation of the facts on the ground.”

Tr uzma n, who da i ly tweets dozens photos, videos and statements from the vari-ous factions in the Gaza Strip, has garnered attention from high-profile journalists and, more notably, high-ranking

Meet ‘Joe,’ bringing objectivity to Mideast reporting in 280 characters or less

Israeli officials who regularly share his content on their own social media pages.

Joe was tight-lipped on how he gathers his information. “I can’t reveal the secrets to my recipe,” he joked. He went on to say that protecting the identity of his sources, espe-cially of those in Gaza, is of the utmost importance. In the Hamas-controlled strip, these informants risk death when they share information that may expose the militants’ tactics to the outside world.

Truzman has followed Israeli security affairs since childhood, specifically those related to Gaza.

“I read books on the Yom Kippur War and Israeli secu-rity services as a kid,” he said.

Truzman’s childhood pas-sion was palpable through the phone as he recalled every detail of a story he had read about Israeli operatives infiltrating Gazan militant leadership, entering the country by sea and posing as Palestinians from Lebanon. His attention to detail is evident in his work today. In spite of the platform’s notorious brevity, Truzman manages to share content that is both digestible and revealing.

In the coming months, Truzman expects to release new content with the hope of making the information from the border more accessible to his followers.

“From my own take, the border [violence] isn’t going to stop any time soon,” said Truzman. “I plan on doing this for a long time.”

Perhaps one of the most significant motivating factors for Truzman’s commitment to the subject has been what he calls the “downright awful” coverage of the ongoing situ-ation by major media outlets.

“When I started,” said Truzman, who has collected more than 4,200 followers over the last eight months, “I was surprised at the lack of information going into some of these stories. As far as the journalists covering it, they’re not doing their jobs—I almost feel like they don’t really care. A lot of times, I’ve found that they’re just flat-out wrong.”

Where journalists failed, Truzman has succeeded in providing objective, well-researched coverage of the ongoing border riots. For example, on Sept 29, an article from the Guardian reported that the increasing number of gatherings being held at night are “to save lives as people can move under the cover of darkness,” omitting, as Truzman had reported nearly a week prior to the article’s publication, that the purpose of these “night-time confusion” units is to regular-ly launch incendiary balloons and explosives towards Israel.

“Staying objective is a learning process,” he said. “I always think about my posts; I think about how it will be received by everyone out there. You can remain as neutral as possible, you’re still going to get people who don’t like [your content]”

In spite of the occasional criticism, Joe’s impartiality has led both Israelis and Palestinians to reach out and express their thanks to him.

“I have Palestinians who message me saying good job; I have Israelis who message me saying good job. I think that means I’m doing something right.”

To keep up with the latest from the Gaza border, follow Joe Truzman on Twitter @Jtruzmah.

Liel Asulin is a writer and educator. He is a campus coordinator with CAMERA.

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Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTAVideo of Louis Farra-khan comparing Jews to termites removed from Facebook

(JTA)—A video posted to the Facebook account of Louis Farrakhan in which the Nation of Islam leader compares Jews to termites was removed for violating the social media platforms hate speech policies.

It remains posted on Twit-ter, which said last week that it does not violate company policies.

The video represents a Tier 1 violation for Facebook, The Wrap first reported. A Tier 1 violation includes attacks comparing a person or group of people to “animals that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior.” Tier 1 infractions also prohibit “violent” and “dehumanizing speech,” ac-cording to Facebook’s com-munity standards,

Farrakhan had posted the video to his 960,000 follow-ers, according to The Wrap, with a comment reading: “To members of the Jewish Community that don’t like me. Thank you very much for putting my name all over the planet. Because of your fear of what we represent, I can go anywhere in the world and they’ve heard of Farrakhan. Thank you very much.”

A link to the video on You-Tube also was deleted, with a message that it was removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech, whose parent company is Google. A video of the full speech remains avail-able on the Nation of Islam website.

Farrakhan’s tweet posted Tuesday was attached to video of a speech he gave Monday marking the 23rd anniversary of the Million Man March, his 1995 rally advocating empow-erment for black men.

“To the members of the Jewish community that don’t like me, thank you very much for putting my name all over the planet because of your fear of what we represent I can go anywhere in the world—I’m not mad at you because you’re so stupid,” he said at the speech in Detroit. “So when they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater—you know what they do—call me an anti-Semite, stop it! I’m anti termite!”

The video clip of his re-marks about Jews remains up on Twitter. A BuzzFeed re-porter on Wednesday quoted a spokesperson for the company as saying that “Louis Farra-khan’s tweet comparing Jews to termites is not in violation of the company’s policies. The policy on dehumanizing language has not yet been implemented.”DC Bible museum says 5 fragments in its Dead Sea Scroll collection are fake

(JTA)—The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., will remove five items from its Dead Sea Scroll collection after an analysis showed they were fake.

The museum said Monday that an outside analysis of the items concluded that they “show characteristics incon-sistent with ancient origin.”

Scholars had raised doubts previously about the authen-ticity of the fragments, which were believed to belong to a

collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts found in caves near the Dead Sea. The mu-seum’s Dead Sea Scroll col-lection consists of 16 items.

“Though we had hoped the testing would render different results, this is an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of verifying the authenticity of rare biblical artifacts, the elaborate testing process undertaken and our commitment to transpar-ency,” the museum’s chief curatorial officer, Jeffrey Kloha, said in a statement.

The museum said it will replace the five fragments with three others “that will be on exhibit pending further scientific analysis and schol-arly research.”

The analysis of the frag-ment s wa s conduc ted by Bundesanstalt für Mate-rialforschung und-prüfung, a German institute that ana-lyzes such materials.

The Museum of the Bible, which opened last November and cost $500 million to build, was largely funded by the evangelical Green family, which runs the Hobby Lobby chain of crafts stores. Its presi-dent, Steven Green, serves as the museum’s chairman.Jordan decides not to re-new parts of 1994 peace treaty with Israel

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Jor-dan’s King Abdullah told Israel he has decided to not renew parts of their 1994 peace treaty.

Abdullah said Sunday he would not renew two of the treaty’s annexes, that allowed Israel to lease two border areas from the Jordanians. Israel’s 25-year lease on the areas—Baqura and Ghamr—is up next year.

“Baqoura and Ghumar have always been our top priority & our decision is to terminate the Baqoura and Ghumar annexes from the peace treaty out of our keenness to take all decisions that would serve Jordan and Jordanians,” Abdullah tweeted.

The deadline for renewing the annexes is later this week.

Baqura, or Naharayim in Hebrew, is located south of the Sea of Galilee in Israel’s north, and Ghumar, or Zofar in Hebrew, is located south of the Dead Sea, in Israel’s south. Both are located on the border of Jordan and Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel intends to negotiate with Jordan over extending the lease.

On Friday, protesters in Amman called on the king to cancel the lease and reclaim sovereignty over the territo-ries. Others called on Jordan to cancel the entire peace treaty with Israel.

The peace deal was reached between Abdullah’s father, King Hussein, and Yitzhak Rabin, then Israeli prime minister. It is very unpopular in Jordan, which is home to a large Palestinian population. Jordanians also claim that Israel has failed to live up to water-sharing agreements, the Washington Post reported.A German Jewish com-munity’s longtime leader may not be Jewish

(JTA)—The man heading a small Jewish community near Hamburg, Germany, has been accused of posing as a Jew for at least two decades.

An investigation by Der Spiegel magazine into the bi-ography of Wolfgang Seibert, head of the 250-member Jew-ish community of Pinneberg since 2003, revealed that he may be an imposter.

Seibert is denying the Spiegel report, which was published Friday, telling the German media he would respond after speaking with his lawyer. He also refuted the magazine’s claim that he said he would withdraw from his position.

The position is unpaid but gives its leader access to com-munity funds.

Seibert, 71, has described himself as having been born in a displaced persons camp for Jewish survivors in Germany and said his grandmother survived Auschwitz. He calls himself a liberal Jew and has been active as a promoter of interfaith dialogue.

But Spiegel reporters Mar-tin Doerry and Moritz Gerlach found documents indicating that Seibert was born on Aug. 16, 1947, to Protestant parents in Frankfurt, and was baptized a few days later. His grandparents also were Protestant, the report says, adding that it is unlikely that Seibert had any Jewish ances-tors. His paternal grandfather was a German sergeant in World War II and his father was a private.

According to the magazine, Seibert was convicted several times for fraud and embezzle-ment, and served time in jail well before he began his Jew-ish leadership role.

Rabbi Walter Rothschild, who had served as head rabbi for the Reform Jewish com-munities in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein from 2003 to 2015, raised the ques-tion of Seibert’s identity with the Jewish court, or beth din, after the rabbi was fired from his post. Rothschild served the small Reform congregations in the state and thus became acquainted with Seibert, and reportedly recalled the difficulty that Seibert had in documenting his Jewish roots.

(As he could not adequately document those roots, Seib-ert had started a conversion process in 2002 at about the time he was co-founding the Pinneberg Jewish commu-nity, according to Spiegel. But the conversion process was dropped the following year after Seibert presented papers showing he had been a member of the Jewish com-munity of Frankfurt am Main from 1972 to 1982 and that his mother’s maiden name was Cohen.)

The rabbinical court de-cided that there was enough proof that Seibert was Jewish and let the matter go.

But the Spiegel reporters found otherwise after con-sulting numerous archives, including the Institute for City History in Frankfurt, the Memorial Center of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen in Germany. They also interviewed people who had known Seibert, in-cluding former members of the Pinneberg community as well as Seibert himself.

Though Seibert told them he had incontrovertible evi-dence of his Jewishness, and this time said his mother’s

maiden name was Sznajder, he did not produce any docu-ments. He also said he had been leading prayer services himself while waiting for the community’s newly hired rabbi to begin his duties next year.

The journalists suggested in their report that it is not politically correct in Germany to challenge Jewish identity, thus it may have been rela-tively simple to hide under the protective cover of a presumed Jewish past.

In a second interview with Seibert, the journalists con-fronted him with their docu-mentary evidence. At this point, Seibert reportedly told them that the most important thing was that he had “felt” Jewish from an early age, and that he had told stories to “match the Jewish identity I felt I had.”

He also told them he would resign from his position in Pinneberg—a claim Seibert now denies.Israel’s president, at Rabin memorial, says new generation does not understand danger of polarization

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Presi-dent Reuven Rivlin of Israel, speaking at a ceremony mark-ing the 23rd anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, ex-pressed concern that the new generation does not under-stand the seriousness of the polarization and incitement that led to the murder.

Rivlin lit a memorial candle and spoke at the official cer-emony opening the events marking the anniversary of Rabin’s death. It also marks the death of his wife, Leah Rabin, five years later in the same week.

Members of the Rabin fam-ily were among those on hand for the event at the president’s residence in Jerusalem. Oth-ers included Deputy Knes-set Speaker Revital Sweid, Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel and students from the Bilingual School in Beer-sheba.

“In the 23 years that have passed since the murder, we have been through difficult times; wars and contentious political initiatives,” Rivlin said. “Each time, and despite the polarization of views, we have avoided terrible moments like this. Have we healed? I am not sure. I do not know.

“Day by day, the generation that did not know Yitzhak grows. The generation that did not itself see the dark slippery slope from incite-ment and hatred to bloodshed. Children and young people who have grown up and were born and immigrated over the last 20 or 30 years, the leaders of our tomorrow, did not know Yitzhak. And did not know the murder. And the truth is that something is not working. Because each year we make speeches and hold ceremonies, and yet we see the erosion of the centrality of the murder and what it means in Israeli public discourse.”

A right-wing extremist, Yi-gal Amir, shot Rabin to death on Nov. 4, 1995, at the end of an event the prime minister held to demonstrate public support for his efforts to make peace with the Palestinians.

In addition to serving as

prime minister, Rabin served as ambassador to the United States and defense minister, as well as Israel’s military chief of staff during the Six-Day War in 1967.

Yonatan Ben-Artzi, Yitzhak Rabin’s grandson, criticized sitting Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu in his address as a “leadership that encour-ages division and violent attacks on other opinions.”

“He who drives and incites against anyone who thinks differently from him as a sourpuss or a leftist will lead to the destruction of the next temple,” Ben-Artzi said.

Ben-Artzi reportedly called on Rivlin to support legisla-tion that would put term limits on prime ministers. Netanyahu has served nearly 10 consecutive years in office after having previously served as prime minister from 1996 to 1999.North Texas school district asks mom to prove her child is Jewish to excuse Yom Kippur absence

(JTA)—A Jewish mother in North Texas said her child’s school asked for proof that her daughter is Jewish in order to excuse her for Yom Kippur.

Lauren Gordon told local CBS affiliate CBS 11 Dallas Fort Worth on Thursday that when she asked last month for her daughter’s absence from school on Yom Kippur to be excused, the Garland Independent School District requested that she “send docu-mentation from the religious establishment you attended,” according to the report.

“That response basically told me that they didn’t believe that we were Jewish. That they needed proof. Honestly, it upset me just as much as it made me angry,” she said.

After she posted about it on Facebook, she found out that other schools in the area also were asking for proof of Jewishness in order to excuse children from school for Jew-ish holidays.

A local rabbi told CBS 11 that such requests were rela-tively recent.

Gordon said that after she complained to the school’s principal she “formally apolo-gized, said she did not mean to offend us in any way and moving forward this will never be an issue at her school while she is there.”

The school’s handbook states that all religious holi-days are excused.

Gordon told the news chan-nel that she wants to ensure that every school district in North Texas drops the re-quirement that parents prove a child is Jewish in order to miss school for the holidays.Australia’s embassy move to Jerusalem in doubt following Liberal Party’s defeat in key parliamentary election

(JTA)—Australia’s poten-tial move of its embassy to Jerusalem was left in doubt after the Liberal government lost its one-seat majority fol-lowing a defeat in a special election for Parliament.

Dave Sharma, the former ambassador to Israel, was beaten Saturday in the vote to fill a vacant House of Representatives seat near Sydney. Independent Party candidate Kerry Phelps, a convert to Judaism, won

the Wentworth seat, which has gone traditionally to the Liberal Party. Wentworth is home to a Jewish community of 20,000, or 12.5 percent of its population.

Days before the election, Prime Minister Scott Mor-rison had announced that he was considering officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and mov-ing the Australian Embassy there. Morrison had credited Sharma with suggesting the embassy move, a major depar-ture from Australia’s foreign policy on Israel.

Critics suggested that Mor-rison was playing politics with the announcement by pandering to the Jewish com-munity in order to maintain his one-seat majority.

The seat was open following the resignation in August of Malcolm Turnbull, a Liberal lawmaker and former prime minister who was replaced by Morrison.Muslim man charged with hate crime for at-tack on Orthodox Jewish man walking to syna-gogue

(JTA)—A Pakistani Mus-lim cab driver was indicted for beating an identifiably Orthodox Jewish man at an intersection, and charged with a hate crime.

A grand jury indicted Far-rukh Afzal on Friday and in-cluded the hate crime charge, after it was presented by the District Attorney’s Office, the local ABC affiliate WABC reported. The NYPD recom-mended Farrukh be charged with a hate crime, and the District Attorney’s office ini-tially declined those charges, according to the report.

Afzal originally was charged with attempted assault in the second degree, assault in the third degree, menacing and harassment, but not with a hate crime since prosecutors believed it to be a case of road rage after being told that Afzal thought the victim was an Orthodox Jewish man who had stepped in front of his car earlier in the day. A second Orthodox man attempted to assist the victim and ran away while being chased by Afzal.

The victim, Rabbi Lipa Schwartz, 62, claims that Af-zal shouted “Allah, Allah,” said he wanted to “kill all Jews,” and made references to Israel throughout the Oct. 14 attack, which happened as Schwartz walked to synagogue for morning services. Afzal’s wife told the New York Daily News that her husband is schizophrenic and was acting out because he did not take his medication.

Afzal reportedly has an extensive police record of violent assaults, including eight previous arrests.Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu resurfaces in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Nige-rian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu announced that he is in Israel a year after he dis-appeared from his home in southeast Nigeria.

Kanu has been campaign-ing for an independent state called Biafra in southeastern Nigeria.

A video live-streamed on Friday on social media showed Kanu praying at the Western

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native, threw a 62-yard touch-down pass that resulted in his overtaking Peyton Manning’s record to become the National Football League’s career pass-ing leader. When I texted my “mazel tov” to Ryan, he texted back a thank you and a picture of the scoreboard proclaiming the Saint’s quarterback’s ac-complishment.

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Last year, IsraAID provided disaster relief to communities affected by Hurricanes Har-vey, Maria and Irma in Texas, Puerto Rico and Florida; and by wildfires in Santa Rosa, California.

In Houston, the organiza-tion is piloting a project to map community vulnerabil-ity to future disasters, while in Puerto Rico the team is providing long-term access

Ole Mississippi and the levity on Bourbon Street, I may not want to live in New Orleans, but Larry and I are already thinking of another trip. After all, we need to spend more time in the city’s museums. We need to enjoy a visit with Todd, and we have at least another 1,200 restaurants to try. As they say in Louisiana creole, “Laissez le bon temps rouler!” (Let the good times roll!)

to safe water and develop-ing community response to the psychological and social impact of Hurricane Maria.

After the initial emergency period ends, IsraAID transi-tions towards supporting a long-term, sustainable recov-ery, based on an assessment of need and in partnership with the local community.

As of 2018, IsraAID has responded to crises in 47 countries, and currently has programs in 18 countries.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, at a meeting on the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal Sept. 22, 2016, in New York.

By Israel Kasnett

(JNS)—U.S. President Donald Trump vowed in May to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and signed an executive order in August to re-impose sanctions, which go into full effect on Nov. 4. The Euro-pean Union, however, appears determined to ignore and cir-cumvent U.S. efforts to force Iran into compliance on its nuclear program, and for the Islamic regime to cease and desist global terror activity.

It appears that Trump’s foreign policy on Iran has raised European ire and some of those countries do not yet seem willing to view Iran’s hegemonic desires as dangerous. As such, European leaders instead seek to bypass U.S. sanctions by continuing to do business with the hostile Islamic regime.

To that end, European of-ficials have slammed renewed U.S. sanctions on Tehran as “illegal” and in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolu-tion 2231. France, Germany and the United Kingdom—the three European partners to the accord (the E3)—have vowed to continue efforts to thwart U.S. measures and preserve the Iran nuclear deal.

In August, the E.U. gave Iran $20.6 million in aid as part of a larger package to help offset the impact of U.S. sanctions.

In September, following a ministerial meeting of the remaining signatories of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action deal at the sidelines of the U.N. General Assem-bly, E.U. foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini claimed that Iran has been complying with its end of the agreement, and said that the European Union would work around U.S. efforts to stem Tehran’s oil exports with sanctions. Reading from a statement, she said, “Mindful of the urgency and the need for tan-gible results, the participants welcomed practical proposals to maintain and develop pay-ment channels, notably the initiative to establish a special purpose vehicle to facilitate payments related to Iran’s exports, including oil.”

However, the chairman of Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh has called the European effort to circum-vent U.S. sanctions on Iran as “weak.”

‘They will do whatever they can to circumvent Trump’

Europeans working hard to sabotage US sanctions on IranDr. Tsilla Hershco, a senior

research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Stra-tegic Studies, told JNS that “The E.U. is currently turning a blind eye on Iran’s ambi-tions regarding its nuclear program... Mogherini has even initiated measures desig-nated to neutralize the influ-ence of the U.S. sanctions on the EU trade with Iran.

“Seemingly, Mogherini was not sufficiently impressed by the exposure of Iran’s at-tempts to conceal its nuclear ambitions, as was the case with its hidden nuclear ar-chives exposed by Israel,” continued Hershco. “Concur-rently, the E.U. has already expressed its genuine security concerns regarding the Irani-an ballistic-missile program, its aspirations for hegemony in the Middle East and its sub-versive activities, including the financing of terrorist ac-tivities. At the end of the day, the E.U. should better stop to underestimate Iran’s nu-clear ambitions, as they are interconnected with Iran’s ongoing regional and global subversive activities, opposed by the E.U.”

The Europeans have made it clear they are committed to the JCPOA and point to numerous inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency that, they say, prove Iran is in compliance.

But this goes against the evidence that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented at the recent U.N. General Assem-bly in New York. There, he provided what appears to be ample and sound proof that Iran continues to deceive the world over its nuclear ambitions. He also called on IAEA head Yukiya Amano to immediately inspect the areas he revealed. Yet the IAEA appears to have ignored Netanyahu’s demand—a

move that suggests that it is unreliable in keeping Iran in check.

According to Emmanuel Navon, an expert in E.U.-Israel relations at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, two issues regarding the E.U. remain of serious concern.

“The first,” he told JNS, “is economic interest. Most of the countries, especially Germany and France, want to circumvent U.S. sanctions because they want to keep business going in Europe, especially car-makers and nat-ural-gas companies. In some areas, they can circumvent the sanctions, but ultimately, companies need to choose between doing business with Iran or doing business with the United States. That’s why the sanctions are effective; they force the businesses to choose. That’s one aspect.”

“The other aspect,” Navon continued, “is from the E.U. itself, and Mogherini and ideology. They hate Trump. They think the deal they reached with Iran three years ago was the best deal they could have reached, and they will do whatever they can to circumvent Trump.”

‘Israel can break that consensus’

While collectively, Eu-ropean countries often ap-pear unwilling to listen to Israel’s concerns regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions and regional aspirations, Jerusalem has good rela-tions with some of the E.U. countries individually, and the Jewish state’s concerns have made their way into the halls of European par-liaments.

“By having a part in con-vincing the U.S. to pull out of the deal, Israel was able to influence European attitudes towards Iran,” said Navon. “Netanyahu has been doing a pretty good job in developing ties with the so-called rebels in Eastern Europe. So now, when there is a vote on the Mideast, Israel can break that consensus.”

Navon was skeptical that E.U. efforts to bypass U.S. sanctions would prove suc-cessful.

“The test really will be whether the E.U. will be able to convince the companies to remain in Iran,” he added. “At the end of the day, the bottom line is that European

companies will have to choose between doing business with Iran or with the U.S.”Quotes

“Most of the countries, especially Germany and France, want to circumvent U.S. sanctions because they want to keep business go-ing in Europe, especially car-makers and natural-gas companies. In some areas, they can circumvent the sanctions, but ultimately, companies need to choose between doing business with Iran or doing business with the United States. That’s why the sanctions are effective; they force the businesses to choose.”

Emmanuel Navon, an ex-pert in E.U.-Israel relations at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies

“At the end of the day, the E.U. should better stop to underestimate Iran’s nuclear ambitions, as they are in-terconnected with Iran’s ongoing regional and global subversive activities, opposed by the E.U.”

Dr. Tsilla Hershco, a se-nior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.

By United with Israel

The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has complexly failed in its mission to finan-cially harm the Jewish state and has no impact whatsoever on its economy.

Israel’s Globes financial news reported last week that a study of the impact of BDS on the Israeli economy esti-mates the damage at 0.004 percent, while some compa-nies even benefit from the boycott.

Israel’s Ministry of Stra-tegic Affairs launched the study in 2010, and based on queries to hundreds of senior

executives of large Israeli companies from every eco-nomic sector, the study has determined that the BDS has failed in its mission.

When asked to quantify in money how much their company lost as a result of the economic boycott created by the BDS, The proportion of Israeli companies able to state that they had been damaged by the sanctions was around 0.75 percent.

The rate of damage of each of them was less than 10 per-cent of their revenues, and even that was mostly during Israel’s counter-terrorism Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014. The

companies experienced no damage in other years.

A calculation of all the numbers shows that the cumulative proportion of economic damage since 2010 was 0.004 percent. To put it in tangible figures, if the Israeli economy’s yearly income were to average NIS 1 million, the damage from the sanctions would have been NIS 40 ($12), a completely negligible sum.BDS helping Israel busi-nesses

Ironically, there are also Israeli companies that bene-fited from the BDS’ campaign against them.

One Israeli business reported

that BDS activists demonstrat-ing in front of its store in Lon-don left after two days when the media lost interest. After they left, the number of buyers at the store was four times the number on an ordinary day. Lo-cal non-Jewish residents who support Israel came especially to buy at the store in order to demonstrate their sympathy for Israel, so BDS essentially cre-ated a boomerang effect.

Similarly, BDS’ academic boycotts are failing as well, and while some artists have joined the BDS cultural boycott of the Jewish state, the vast majority of perform-ers ignore it.

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joined and in some cases led numerous legislative efforts championed by the centrist and right-wing pro-Israel community, including bids to cut funding to the Pales-tinians. Zeldin was a leading opponent of the Iran deal. En-dorsements: The Republican Jewish Coalition PAC and right-wing pro-Israel PACs like American Principles, as well as Trump. Prospects: A 6 in 7 chance of keeping his seat.TENNESSEEDavid Kustoff, 52

8th District, parts of Mem-phis and western Tennes-see, in Congress since 2017. Known for: Law and order. Kustoff, a former U.S. attorney in Tennessee, has initiated bills that aim to reduce opioid usage and preserve tough sentencing guidelines for criminals who use arms. Jew-ish stuff: Kustoff told JTA this year that one of his proudest freshman accomplishments was garnering bipartisan support for a bill that would enhance penalties for attacks on religious institutions. The bill recently became law. A primary challenger this year contrasted himself with Kustoff by emphasiz-ing that he was a “Christian conservative.” Kustoff won handily with an endorse-ment from Trump. Endorse-ments: The center-right pro-Israel PAC, Washington PAC; Trump. Prospects: 99 percent chance to be re-elected.Challengers:CALIFORNIARon Cohen, CPA

17th District covering Silicon Valley, challenging incumbent Democrat Ro Khanna. Know this: Cohen has advanced theories that the 9/11 attacks in 2001 were an inside job, that Michelle Obama is a man and that the Obamas’ children were sired

by others. He has deleted or apologized for some of these theories, but the California GOP has said it will not as-sist him and county GOPs have pulled their endorse-ments. Prospects: So poor, Cohen advises visitors to his campaign website to donate to someone else.FLORIDAJoe Kaufman, right-wing activist

23rd District covering parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties, challenging Was-serman Schultz. Know this: This is Kaufman’s fourth at-tempt to unseat Wasserman Schultz. He is a frequent contributor to Frontpage Mag, where he recently wrote about a purported Muslim Brotherhood threat on Ivanka Trump. Prospects: Nil.MASSACHUSETTSJoseph Schneider, con-sultant to the aerospace industry

6th District in the state’s northeast corner, challeng-ing incumbent Democrat Seth Moulton. Know this: Schneider’s family fled from communist Romania when he was a child, and he became a Green Beret. He told the Bos-ton Globe’s Jeff Jacoby that he is not a fan of Trump’s “cult of personality” but chides Demo-crats for reflexively opposing the president. Schneider told the Lynn Daily Item that he appreciates Trump for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusa-lem and for his tough posture on Iran. Prospects: Nearly nonexistent: 1 in 99 shot.MICHIGANLena Epstein, business-woman

11th District northwest of Detroit, running to replace retiring Republican incum-bent Dave Trott. Know this: Epstein, who chaired Trump’s campaign in the state, wrote an op-ed titled “Why this Jewish millennial woman supports Trump” following the revelation late in the cam-

paign that Trump had bragged about sexual assault. In June, she said the Jewish-founded Franklin Hills Country Club canceled a planned fundraiser for her, and she decried a lack of civil engagement in the Jewish community. Endorse-ments: Republican Jewish Coalition, Trump. Prospects: Not great: a 1 in 6 chance of keeping the seat red.Marc Herschfus, gastro-enterologist

14th District encompassing part of Detroit and northern suburbs, challenging in-cumbent Democrat Brenda Lawrence. Know this: The district includes a substan-tial population of Chaldeans, the ancient community of Iraqi Christians who speak a version of Aramaic. He told the Chaldean News that as a Jew he feels an affinity with the group, noting that both communities have preserved the Aramaic language. Pros-pects: Nil.NEW JERSEYSeth Grossman, lawyer

2nd District encompassing the state’s south, running to replace Republican Frank LoBiondo, who is retiring. His opponent is state Sen. Jeff Van Drew. Know this: The National Republican Congressional Committee has cut off this former Atlantic City councilor, who has on his Facebook page linked to racist musings. Grossman, whose primary victory was an upset over an establishment GOP candidate, has enthusiasti-cally embraced Trump and has adopted the president’s Make America Great Again motto. Prospects: 1 in 40 shot. It looks like this red district will flip to blue.Daryl Kipnis, lawyer

12th District in the center of the state encompassing Princeton University, chal-lenging incumbent Demo-crat Bonnie Watson Cole-man. Know this: Kipnis does not mention Trump on his

website and favors a path to citizenship for “dreamers,” undocumented migrants who came as children, a position directly at odds with the president but consistent with the state’s liberal tendencies. Kipnis praised the Trump administration’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Prospects: Extremely unlikely: a 1 in 100 shot.NEW YORKAmeer Benno, lawyer

4th District encompassing parts of Nassau County, chal-lenging incumbent Democrat Kathleen Rice. Know this: Benno, who has worked for Hillel International and Camp Ramah, is the president of the Merrick-Bellmore Jewish Community Council and has traveled to Israel to litigate on behalf of victims of terrorism. Prospects: Nil.Naomi Levin, software engineer

10th District, encompass-ing Manhattan’s lower West Side and portions of Brooklyn, challenging longtime incum-bent Jerrold Nadler. Know this: Levin’s campaign bio says she speaks four lan-guages, including Hebrew and Russian, “spoken by many in the district.” Prospects: Nil.Eliot Rabin, upscale clothing retailer

12th District, encompass-ing Manhattan’s East Side and Brooklyn’s Greenpoint, chal-lenging incumbent Democrat Carolyn Maloney. Know this: Rabin, from South Carolina, is a graduate of its military school, The Citadel, and a veteran. He says he was the president of the campus Hillel. He moved to New York to work in clothing. Trump’s friend-ship with Russian President Vladimir Putin rattles Rabin. “I have a big problem with people humoring Mr. Putin when he’s an out-and-out murderer,” he told Town-Village, an East Side online newsletter. He favors outlaw-

ing the purchase of assault rifles. Prospects: Nil.OHIOBeverly Goldstein, audi-ologist

11th District, runs from Cleveland south to Akron, challenging incumbent Dem-ocrat Marcia Fudge. Know this: Goldstein’s campaign website says she has been ac-tive in the Republican Jewish Coalition and Christians Unit-ed for Israel. She has also been active with ACT! for America, a group the Anti-Defamation League calls the “largest anti-Muslim group in the United States.” Prospects: Nil.PENNSYLVANIABryan Leib, business-man and political activ-ist

3rd District covering parts of Philadelphia, challenging incumbent Dwight Evans. Know this: A year ago Leib, 32, made headlines in his city (and earned a spot on “Fox & Friends”) for coming out as a Republican who couldn’t get dates in a Democratic city. Prospects: Like the nice guy on the dating app, nil.TEXASPhillip Aronoff, retired steel exporter

29th District, encompass-ing the eastern portion of the greater Houston area, run-ning to replace incumbent Democrat Gene Green, who is retiring. His opponent is Sylvia Garcia, a Democrat-ic member of the Texas State Senate. Know this: Aronoff for 13 years has been the honorary consul in Houston for Hungary. His campaign website does not mention Trump and his issues page repudiates many hallmarks of the Trump presidency: Gangs pose a greater threat to Mexi-cans than Americans, Aronoff says, and border security “doesn’t require some big ex-pensive wall.” He wants a path to citizenship for dreamers and wants to reinstate a work visa program for Mexicans.

Prospects: 1 in 99 in a district that is solidly liberal.

Here are some other note-worthy tidbits on the mid-terms:The year of women?

Of 56 Jewish candidates in the Senate and the House, 20 are women, among them two, an incumbent and a challenger, in the Senate; six Democratic incumbents in the House; nine Democratic House chal-lengers (half of the party’s 18 Jewish challengers); and three Republican House challengers.Inspired by dad

Two women House Demo-cratic challengers, Chrissy Houlahan in Pennsylvania and Kara Eastman in Ne-braska, do not identify as Jew-ish, but each says her Jewish father shaped her outlook as a liberal Democrat.Three Levins

There are three Levins running: Mike in California and Andy in Michigan, both Democrats, and Naomi in New York, a Republican.Married to the tribe

Two Democratic House nominees, David Trone in Maryland and Angie Craig in Minnesota, are married to Jewish spouses and have raised their children as Jew-ish. They join at least two incumbent House Democrats who have done the same: John Sarbanes in Maryland and Rosa DeLauro in Connecticut.Jew vs. Jew

Three House races pit a Jewish Democrat against a Jewish Republican: Nadler against Levin in New York; Perry Gershon against Zeldin in New York; and Debbie Wasserman Schultz against Kaufman in Florida.In the states

Four Jews are in guberna-torial races, all Democrats: J.B. Pritzker tops the ticket in Illinois, as does Jared Po-lis in Colorado. Running for lieutenant governor are Susan Turnbull in Maryland and David Zuckerman in Vermont.

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been seen as split between the left and right, with one jurist in the middle.

“It prevents anybody from thinking that the court is on some team because the court just wasn’t acting as if it was on any team,” she said of the previous configuration. “Sometimes some people got what they wanted and some-times other people got what they wanted.”

The Senate Judiciary Com-mittee is holding hearings on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the seat re-

RocketFrom page 1A

near a major population center.

At around 8:30 a.m., the Red Alert system sounded in two communities in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council on the Mediterranean coast. No additional injuries or damage were reported.

Israeli Air Force fighter jets smashed 20 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror targets in response, including under-ground and undersea terror tunnels, rocket-manufactur-ing sites and Hamas military bases. The Israel Defense Forces also fired on a terror cell, which was in the process of launching additional rock-

cently vacated by the swing voting Anthony Kennedy. Kavanaugh would be Presi-dent Donald Trump’s second appointment to the court and represent an expected 5-4 conservative majority.

Kagan, who is part of the court’s liberal wing, worried about a court being seen as merely political, especially in the big cases that “people care about.”

“I do think it’s a dangerous thing,” she said, if “it really does seem like the divisions follow ineluctably from politi-cal divisions and one side is winning.”

ets at Israel. Three Gazans were reported wounded.

IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Manelis said the retaliatory at-tacks will continue. He noted that the Iron Dome missile-defense system failed to stop the medium-range rocket in this case.

Hamas “creates an atmo-sphere of terror in the dem-onstrations near the border fence, where grenades have been thrown in recent weeks,” said Manelis.

The Beersheva munici-pality and the Sdot Negev Regional Council ordered schools closed for the day.

An Egyptian delegation arrived in Gaza on Tuesday to attempt to negotiate a

ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, with Egypt’s head of intelligence expected in Is-rael on Thursday. Following the attack, a Security Cabi-net meeting on the topic of the ceasefire was postponed.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad

released a joint statement denying responsibility: “We reject any irresponsible at-tempt to destroy the Egyptian efforts,”” to reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel, “in-cluding the rocket fire last night.”

However, the IDF’s Manelis dismissed the terror groups’ denials.

“Only Hamas and Islamic Jihad have these type of rock-ets,” he said.

In the wake of the attack, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Ei-

zenkot cut short a trip to the United States and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the closure of the Kerem Shalom and Erez bor-der crossings, and shortened Gaza’s fishing zone to three nautical miles.

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Wall in Jerusalem wearing a kippah and Jewish prayer shawl, or tallit.

Kanu claims the Igbo people, who are the majority in southeast Nigeria, are a lost tribe of Israel and that he will lead them to the promised land of Biafra.

In a broadcast Sunday on his pirate radio station, Radio Biafra, Kanu announced that “I’m in Israel.”

“I owe my survival to the State of Israel,” he said, adding that he received help from the country’s Mossad intelligency agency He did not indicate what kind of assistance he may have received from Israeli authorities.

In 2015, Kanu was charged with “criminal conspiracy, intimidation and member-ship of an illegal organiza-tion,” which could amount to treason, according to the BBC. He was released on bail last year after spending more than 19 months without trial on treason charges.

Nigerian troops raided his home city of Umuahia, in the Abia state, in September 2017, after which he went missing until Friday, including failing to show up for his scheduled trial.

In the Sunday broadcast, Kanu called on his follow-ers to boycott elections next year in Nigeria unless there is a referendum for a state of Biafra on the ballot. He said he would not return to Nigeria for his trial, the Daily Post of Nigeria reported.Polish museum com-memorates 1,500 towns where Jews were saved from the Nazis

WARSAW, Poland (JTA)—The Museum of Poles Saving Jews opened a memorial or-chard commemorating 1,500 towns and villages where Poles saved Jews during World War II.

The orchard, which was dedicated Friday in Markowa, in southeastern Poland, in-cludes only towns where a resident was designated Righteous Among the Na-

tions by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust authority.

Between trees, on glass illu-minated boards, nearly 1,500 names of villages, towns and cities are listed where Polish gentiles saved Jews during the German occupation. Yad Vashem has awarded nearly 7,000 Poles with the Righ-teous designation.

According to Mateusz Sz-pytma, vice president of the Institute of National Remem-brance, Poles saved tens of thousands of Jews during the war.

“Just as these trees bear fruit, your commitment and attitude will bear fruit each year because the descendants of those you have saved come into the world each year,” Szpytma said at the ceremony.

The orchard is another Polish initiative emphasizing the involvement of Poles in helping Jews during the war. Poland wants to honor them with two more monuments in Warsaw and a museum built in Torun.

A diplomatic crisis erupted

between Poland and Israel earlier this year after the Polish government passed legislation that criminalizes blaming Poles for Nazi crimes.Israeli soldier stabbed by Palestinian assailant in Hebron

JERUSALEM (JTA)—An Israeli soldier was stabbed by a Palestinian assailant near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

The soldier was lightly in-jured in the Monday morning attack.

“After being stabbed, the soldier, along with other troops nearby, shot and neu-tralized the terrorist, prevent-ing him from stabbing anyone else,” the IDF said.

The assailant was identi-fied by the Palestinian Maan news agency as Muhammad Maamar al-Atrash. Maan reported that he was killed by Israeli forces.

A photo accompanying the Maan article showed the assail-ant’s body covered with a black bag. Haaretz reported that he is a 42-year-old father of seven.

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By Marilyn Shapiro

After Larry and I had been retired for four years, we seriously began thinking of selling our house and down-sizing. We were not sure of the location. A smaller place in Clifton Park? Colorado to be closer to our children? Florida to get out of the cold? No matter where we landed, we knew we had to get rid of all the stuff that we were not going to take with us.

When my parents sold their house of 31 years in 1981, they found an easy way to avoid having to make decisions as to what to keep and what to toss. They loaded everything on which they couldn’t decide into a rented U-Haul and told us to pick it up. My parents’ ra-tionale was that they weren’t sure what was valuable and what should be tossed. They thought that we could be more objective as we cleaned it out. Larry and I drove with the children to my parents’ home at Five Vine Street, loaded up a rented U-Haul, and drove the van to our house. We then transferred all their treasures into our garage.

When we opened up the boxes, we found some items of either monetary or sentimen-tal value: French casseroles with bird designs, some vases, a painting of a little girl with a kitty that had hung in their living room. For the most part, however, it was just stuff that they didn’t want: smelly books, dishes from Dreft detergent boxes, steak knives given away with a fill-up from the local gas station, old cameras and radios. Once we unloaded all their stuff in the

garage, there was no room for a car. Fortunately, our syna-gogue had a garage sale soon after we brought the filled van down from Keeseville. With some liberal pruning, I donated what we didn’t throw out to the fundraising event.

The U-Haul trick wasn’t going to work on our chil-dren. Our daughter and her husband lived in a small home in Colorado, and our son had an 800-square-foot apartment four flights up in the middle of San Francisco. Besides, we have told them the U-Haul story too many times for them to fall for it like we did.

Fortunately, while we were going through the process of divesting ourselves of 38 years of home ownership, I read Ma-rie Kondo’s international best-seller, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” One of the major points in the book was the advice, “Get rid of anything that doesn’t spark joy.” We certainly had plenty of non-sparking-joy stuff. Some went into the recycling or garbage receptacles. I had no problem tossing my six years of back issues of Hadassah magazine. Larry did the same with his Sports Illustrated magazines, several pairs of old running shoes, and old running gear.

Following the advice of experts, Larry and I found homes for items we couldn’t toss but no longer wanted. I gave away several cookbooks I had purchased with good intentions of learning how to make fancy appetizers, homemade pasta, and sacher tortes. Little-used kitchen ap-pliances and duplicate pie tins, tea pots, and sauce pans were

donated to the local thrift shop. The stereo set with the turntable we hadn’t used for 20 years found a second home in a friend’s house, as did the stationary bike and the weight machine that would not fit into our planned smaller liv-ing spaces.

Our family, many of whom lived near-by, took or pur-chased items that we would not need in our downsized life: the pool table, Larry’s mother’s silver, my grandfa-ther’s sewing machine. The two hundred or so unread books I had accumulated over numerous library book sales were given back to the library or to a nursing home. I downloaded my CD collec-tion onto my computer and an external hard drive. Then the CDs themselves—Barbra Streisand, innumerable cast recordings of Broadway shows and sound tracks of movies, Bob Marley and Linda Ron-stadt—were happily taken by friends.

I found decisions on items with emotional attachments more difficult. How could I part with the two Mexican dolls my father bought for me in Montreal when I was eight years old? I kept them! What about the dress I was wearing the night I met Larry? I had the picture of that night many years before, so the dress went to the thrift shop.

A file drawer was stuffed with my children’s art work and projects from nursery school through high school, and a trunk tucked in the basement had their favorite baby blankets, some special clothing, and Adam’s Super-man doll that Julie “gave” him

when she came home from the hospital.

Following the advice of the experts, I took pictures and texted them to our children.

They asked for some things, but for the most part told me to toss them. I took one last look, took a few more pictures, and did what they requested.

Collect memories, not things. It was time to start over with a new home, a new life, new things to spark joy.

Collect memories, not things

(StatePoint)—Moving can be emotional and the ways you manage it—including the downsizing of your possessions—may be influenced by your age, suggests a new study.

“From heirlooms to kitchen gadgets, moving is one of the few times in life when you’re forced to consider all your possessions and decide what goes and what stays,” says Pat Baehler, senior vice president, Mayflower Moving. “It can be a journey of ups and downs, from feeling brief guilt over purging gifts or older furniture, to pure joy in remembering the story behind a family heirloom and thinking of the memories you’ll soon make in your new home.”

Baby boomers (64 percent) and Generation Xers (60 percent) are more likely than millennials (53 percent) to put an heirloom in a safe place to pass along, according to the 2018 Mayflower Mover Insights Study, which explored different generations’ rela-tionships with their belongings. However, millennials (17 percent) are more likely than Generation Xers (12 percent) and baby boomers (10 percent) to refurbish or repurpose an heirloom into something new.

The survey, conducted by Mayflower, which moves approximately 50,000 families an-nually, also explored how Americans feel about decluttering and purging unused items: 80 percent of survey respondents agree that clutter stresses them out, and half declutter their living space to feel more relaxed.

While such emotional stressors are often unavoidable during a move, the following tips from the experts at Mayflower can help you ease the logistical and financial burdens.

• Most people want to move on a Thursday or Friday, so if you can move earlier in the week there will likely be more availability. Likewise, it’s best to move in the early or middle part of the month, as well as to avoid summer the busiest time for most moving companies.

• Prevent mishaps. Consider letting professionals pack breakable items.• Help offset relocation costs by looking into programs such as CityPointe, provided

by Mayflower, offering cash back on the sale and purchase price of your home.• Of the millions of Americans that move annually, fraud occurs in as many as 3,000

cases. Don’t get scammed. Ask for a moving quote from three companies and don’t be hooked by the lowest price. If one estimate is much lower than the others, it could be a red-flag that the company isn’t legitimate. Generally, reputable moving companies will not require a deposit, so don’t pay up-front.

• Reduce energy spent packing and unpacking. While 57 percent of survey respondents say they’ll purge everything they don’t need before moving, only 44 percent have actually done this in the past. Luckily, there are both new and lucrative channels for doing so: 47 percent of Americans say they use some kind of online service, social site or app to help them declutter, 26 percent are considering selling unused items through a resale or consignment shop and 35 percent are considering selling unused items online, ac-cording to the Mayflower survey.

Whether you’re a minimalist or a pack rat, smart strategies can mean a low-stress move.

Top tips and decluttering insights for your next move

Even though they are no lon-ger restricted to two or three weeks of vacation a year, they may find themselves home-bound in retirement if they didn’t protect their assets. “Without guaranteed income and establishing a smart financial plan that allows for travel, you may be seeing the world mostly through travel magazines,” D’Arruda says. “Didn’t you work too hard, too long to end up with no freedom to go anywhere?”

• Leaving a legacy. An in-heritance left to children can be complicated and signifi-cantly compromised by taxes. “Unfortunately, the process of passing family heirlooms and other assets to the next

generation can be a fiscal and legal nightmare, both to the giving and receiving ends,” D’Arruda says. “Without drafting proper documents with explicit details about how your assets are to be divided, you’re surrendering your freedom of legacy”

• Having autonomy. Chil-dren rely on their parents. Some parents, running out of money, end up relying on their children. Some are forced to go back to work in old age. “It shouldn’t have to be that way,” D’Arruda says “People need a plan with a diverse portfolio to ensure they won’t have to surrender their freedom of autonomy.

• Choosing your retirement

age. By not calculating your planned retirement age and future cost of living, you’re surrendering your freedom to choose when you don’t want to work anymore. “There are a lot of factors that go into this number,” D’Arruda says. “Unfortunately, many people have given more thought about when they want to retire rather than what it will cost for them to do so.”

“Some people learn the hard truth that they have to work much longer than they expected,” D’Arruda says. “Again, it doesn’t have to be that way if you’ve planned well ahead to protect your assets.”

Five financial freedoms you can’t afford to surrenderMost Americans work 40 to

50 years. That’s a huge time investment when you stop and think about it. That’s a long time to toil and end up getting little, if any, financial security out of all that hard work.

Everybody wants financial independence in their golden years, but without a sound retirement planning strategy, many lose the freedoms they could have enjoyed.

“Some freedoms are often taken for granted in this country, such as those you earn by maximizing your earning potential,” says Peter J. D’Arruda, president of North Carolina-based Capital Finan-

cial & Insurance LLC (www.capitalfinancialusa.com).

“It’s critical that you use your time for the most advan-tageous gains and invest your assets wisely. Even well-off and wealthy Americans fail to develop a sound financial plan that will carry them through retirement.”

D’Arruda lists five freedoms you’re surrendering by not protecting your assets:

• Guaranteed income. The day you stop working is the day you surrender your paycheck and guaranteed income. That’s a painful reality some aren’t ready for, thinking they had enough money from other

sources, but miscalculated how new expenses, inflation and other factors would affect them. They lean on a finite Social Security check and watch their savings dwindle. “The transition from a lifetime of gainful employment to be-ing unemployed and retired is a drastic change, especially without a strategic plan that would have ensured continued income through retirement,” D’Arruda says.

• Travel flexibility. Retirees rank among the top three groups of travelers in the U.S.; on average more than 20 percent of their retirement income is spent on travel.

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By Sara Debbie Gutfreund Aish Hatorah Resources

All successful people share six common, consis-tent habits regardless of their area of expertise. Ev-eryone can emulate them.

When we look at highly successful people, we often fall into the trap of thinking that they possess superior talent, intelligence or re-sources that we don’t have access to. After a decade of researching and interview-ing high performers, Bren-don Burchard discovered that all successful people share six common, con-sistent habits regardless of their area of expertise; it is these habits that ulti-mately differentiate them from others. In his book,

“High Performance Hab-its,” Burchard describes the following habits that all of us can emulate to help us reach the next stage of growth in our lives.

1. Seek clarity. We need to figure out who we want to be, how we want to interact with others, what we want and what will bring us the most meaning in our lives. Every time we begin a new project we should ask our-selves: What kind of person do I want to be while I’m doing this? How should I treat others? What are my intentions and objectives? What can I focus on that will bring me a sense of connec-tion and fulfillment? High performers continue asking themselves these questions every day; they develop a consistent routine of self-

monitoring to make sure that their goals are always clear to them.

2. Generate energy. In order to perform at a high level day after day we need to take care of our mental stamina (through frequent and intentional breaks), physical energy (through d iet a nd exerc i se) a nd positive emotions (through controlling our thoughts). High performers know that they need to consciously generate energy so that they can maintain focus, effort and well-being. They know that they need to take care of themselves to stay on their A game.

3. Raise necessity. We need to find and access the reasons why we absolutely must perform well. This necessity should be based

on a mix of our internal standards (ie. our identi-ties, beliefs, values and expectations for excellence) and external demands. (ie. social obligations, competi-tion, public commitments, deadlines). We need to know our why and nurture the drive to transform our goals into absolute necessities.

4. Increase productivity. We need to focus on prolific quality output in the area where we want to have the most impact. In order to do this, high performers minimize distractions and say no to opportunities that don’t help their quality output in their specific area of expertise.

5. Develop influence. Suc-cess is rarely achieved in isolation; we need to develop influence with those around

us. It’s crucial to have others around us that believe in and support our ambitions. High performers intention-ally develop positive support networks because they know their achievements would be limited without the help of others.

6. Demonstrate courage. We need to stand up for ourselves and others even when we are faced with fear, change, doubt and threat. High performers consistently express their ideas and take action every day. Ultimately, courage is not one bold action; it is a trait that we can choose to develop and use on a daily basis.

The Mishna te aches , “Anyone whose good deeds are greater than his wis-dom, his wisdom will en-

dure. And anyone whose wisdom is greater than his good deeds, his wisdom will not endure” (Ethics of the Fathers, 3:12). Ultimately it’s our actions and habits that help us move forward in our lives. Once we have the clarity about what is truly important in our lives, we can overcome impasses by implementing these six habits that other successful people have used to achieve their goals.

Sara Debbie Gutfreund received her BA in English f rom the University of Pennsylvania and her MA in Family Therapy from the University of North Texas . She has taught parenting classes and self-de ve lo pme nt se minars and provided adolescent counseling.

Six high-performance habits that make people extraordinary

While most of us will not be world-class Olympic athletes, Oscar-winning movie stars or generals who command great battles, we still have a desire to leave some type of mark on this world.

For many people that desired action is leaving a legacy while financially securing themselves, their families, their causes and charitable organizations long into the future.

Patrick Renn (www.pat-rickrenn.com) has found a way to help others leave a legacy and reveals those strategies in his best-selling

book, “Finding Your Money’s Greater Purpose.”

“Each of us, through our contributions as volunteers and benefactors, holds the power to change the course of society for the better,” says Renn.

Renn suggests a number of ways to build a legacy and keep contributing to society even after we have left this world.

• Charitable Gift Annuity. This is a contract between a donor and a qualified char-ity that can supplement retirement income and also give you a tax deduction. The annuity involves the

donor making a gift to the charity and, in exchange the charity provides the donor with a lifetime fixed income stream.

• Give a gift of stock. Let’s say you have a gain on a stock and want to give that to char-ity. To do so, you could sell it, pay the tax and give what’s left or you could first make the stock itself a gift. This gives you the full benefit of the gift as a tax deduction, and you avoid paying the capital gains tax.

• Donate your house. You can make a commitment to leave your house to a charity after your death. By doing

Leave a lasting legacy while you are here and after you leave

(StatePoint)—It is hard to think about death, but organizing your financial paperwork, having a will, making sure you have an appropriate amount of life insurance coverage and even writing out funeral plans, can help ensure that loved ones left behind have a little less to worry about during a difficult time.Draw up a Will

Only 44 percent of Ameri-cans report having a will, according to a 2016 Gallup poll, and that percentage drops to just 14 percent for those younger than 30. Even if you don’t own much, a will helps family and friends know that they are follow-ing your wishes, which can be comforting. If you have children or pets, it is im-portant to think about their future and who you want to take care of them in your absence. Specify if you have special directions regarding your funeral services, if you want one at all.

Creating a living will is also critical. You’ll want to give your loved ones some guidance on making impor-tant health decisions, should you be unable to yourself. Granting power of attorney to a trusted agent in the event that you are too ill or incapacitated to oversee your affairs is another way to help ensure your estate will

be properly managed under any circumstances.Consider Life Insurance

Nearly 90 percent of Amer-icans believe that a family’s primary wage earner needs to have life insurance, but only three in five U.S. adults own an individual or group life insurance policy, accord-ing to the Life Insurance Market Research Association 2018 Insurance Barometer.

“Life insurance can be an important part of an overall financial plan. The money can help your family fulfill your plans for them, such as maintaining their current home, attending college and assisting those with special needs,” says Bill Smith, president, Cigna Group In-surance. (All Cigna products and services are provided exclusively by or through operating subsidiaries of Cigna Corporation, includ-ing Life Insurance Company of North America, Cigna Life Insurance Company of New York (New York, NY) and Connecticut General Life Insurance Company.)

Smith also points out that benef iciaries of ten have other immediate needs beyond receiving a benefit check. Grief counseling or access to legal document review may be available as part of the policy.

Find out what resources will be available to your

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this, you can live in the house the rest of your life and receive a tax deduction. In all likelihood the charity will sell the house after you die and the money from the sale will end up as your final donation.

• Leave your retirement plan to charity. Leaving money to a charity from your retirement plan could save a lot of headaches. A retirement plan is one of the worst assets to die with be-cause of the taxes associated with it. Leaving the plan to a charity could be the most

tax-efficient strategy for that money.

• Give your family choices with a donor advised fund. You can leave your family a say in where your charitable donations are going via a donor advised fund. Family members could recommend where money from the fund is going now and after you’re gone.

• Donate a life insurance policy. Insurance policies that no longer serve their purpose are a good place to look for charitable oppor-tunities. Many people have

outdated life insurance and have now outgrown their original need. Instead of cashing the policy in or just dropping it, why not consider donating it?

“I feel that part of my mis-sion is to show people that they can take advantage of certain financial procedures if only they know about them,” says Renn, founder and president of Renn Wealth Management Group. “With a bit of planning, such proce-dures could benefit them and the causes and institutions they care about.”

PAGE 4B HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, OCTOBER 26, 2018

By Christine DeSouza

Florida Trend, a monthly magazine covering Flori-da business, industry, educa-tion, and leisure, is read by business executives, govern-ment officials, and civic lead-ers. Founded in 1958, Florida Trend was the nation’s first regional business magazine.

A sister publication of the Tampa Bay Times, the magazine published its first “Florida 500” this year. The 180-page list is a compilation of the state’s most influential business leaders in different economic sectors and how they rose to power. The only rule in choosing these 500 people was that there would be no elected officials, they had to be influential in their profession or communities. The magazine’s editors chose those who made the list, and

it was not based on who ad-vertised.

In the Finance & Insurance section, Mitchel Laskey was chosen as one of the 500. A CPA, Laskey was co-founder and CEO of Dynamic Health-care Technologies, a health care information systems company. But the reason he was selected was because he founded and is managing director of the Florida Angel Network Fund or FAN Fund. The FAN Fund invests in early stage entrepreneurial ecosys-tem companies in Florida to help build business and keep the best and brightest here in Florida. “That’s what this is all about to me,” said Laskey.

Originally from New York, Laskey came to Florida by car shortly after his parents moved to Miami, and did the “Florida tour,” attending the University of Miami, Univer-

sity of Florida and the Uni-versity of South Florida. He met his wife, Ellyn, here and they raised four children and now have four grandchildren.

For long-time Jewish com-munity residents, Laskey’s name may be familiar because he served for three years (1988-1991) as president of the JCC in Maitland. He and his wife are members of Temple Israel.

Another member of the Jewish community to make the list in the Real Estate section is Mark Israel, presi-dent and CEO of Universal Engineering Sciences. Israel followed in the footsteps of his father, Sy Israel.

“Engineering... is in the family and my blood,” he told Florida Trend.

Israel studied at Tulane Uni-versity and received his MBA at Rollins College. The biggest

Mitchel Laskey

Mitchel Laskey, one in 500, among others

Mark Israel and his father, Sy.

Back-to-school t ime means plenty of lessons to learn in the classroom. But parents usually have to be the teachers when it comes to a subject their kids will need to understand throughout their adult lives—personal finance.

Studies show that teaching finance is not a top priority of the U.S. education system. Fewer than 20 percent of teachers report feeling compe-tent to teach personal finance, according to a Council for Economic Education Survey, and only 17 states require

students to take a personal finance course in high school.

“The majority of your kids’ financial education will come from you,” says Kathy Longo (www.flourishwealthman-agement.com), the author of “Flourish Financially: Values, Transitions, & Big Conversa-tions.”

“Because we parents have such a great influence on how our kids spend, save, and in-vest, it’s critical that we teach them early and often how we want them to value money.”

Longo, who is also presi-dent and founder of Flour-

ish Wealth Management®, provides a list of ideas and discussions that can help your kids learn about finance at dif-ferent developmental stages:

• Learning wants versus needs. Longo believes the foundation of a child’s finance education begins with learn-ing the difference between wants and needs. “Asking kids whether they want or need something before they make a purchase really gets them thinking about their own money values,” Longo says.

• Using a three-slotted piggy bank. In grade school,

Longo says it’s important to teach kids about money in a tangible way. Three slots to separate dollars for saving, sharing and spending can help them understand the connec-tion between the money in their piggy bank and the new toy they bought, Longo says.

• Giving back. Teaching your kids the importance of giving, such as by donat-ing toys they no longer use, is a lesson that can stick with them for life “You can strengthen that by talking about charities you support with dollars and time,” Longo

Teach your kids about finance

says. “This is a great way of showing them that valuing money also means helping those less fortunate.”

• Making a budget. By middle school, Longo thinks children should have an idea of what it costs to keep the house running each month. “Once they have a concept of a budget, get the kids in-volved in spending decisions for big-ticket items, like a car or family vacation, and the considerations that go into the purchase,” Longo says.

• Explaining college. We all know it’s expensive, and Longo says teenagers should know early on in high school how loans, grants, and a col-lege savings plan work. It’s

also important to educate students about the additional financial opportunities they’ll have in life if they earn a col-lege degree.

• Getting a job. Is there a better way for your high school student to learn financial responsibility than by work-ing part-time and paying for their gas, fun activities, etc.? “This is a good time for them to get a debit card, to learn the importance of a good credit history, and to see how stay-ing within a budget requires discipline,” Longo says.

“Helping your children develop healthy money hab-its today,” Longo says, “will increase their chances for a happier life.”

challenge in business isn’t growing a business, he stated in the magazine. “Shrinking it is the tough part. We’re a family owned company. The emotion surrounding letting people go is very painful.”

There were others from the Jewish community who made the list, including Har-ris Rosen and David Siegel (Hospitality and Tourism) and Gerald Greenspoon and Michael Marder (Law).

Heritage offers congratu-lations to these dynamic individuals who are keeping Florida growing economical-ly. (Heritage also apologizes if we missed anyone else in the Jewish community.)

(StatePoint)—Whether you’re looking to pick up a side hustle or make the leap into starting your own business, there are many ways to be your own boss.

No one knows how to trail blaze better than the motivated individuals who run their own businesses, according to Avon, the iconic beauty company with an over 130-year track record empowering women and men to be their own bosses. That’s why the brand’s latest campaign catalog honors and features the brand’s very own Avon representatives. From top-sellers to accomplished

leaders, the first-of-its-kind catalog for the brand recog-nizes the Avon representative community by highlighting the real people from across the country who are not only the cover models but also the role models.

To get inspired, check out these tips from a few of the men and women featured in the campaign, based on their own real-life successes.Be Authentic

A former Marine and full-time pharmacist, Starsky Clark of Baton Rouge, La., initially joined Avon to make some extra income as a side hustle. She quickly realized

her potential to grow her busi-ness in a big way and has since forged a career as a successful representative and leader in the community.

Her recipe for success? “Be passionate about your business and the products you’re selling,” says Starsky. “Use the products yourself! That way, you’ll be able to share your authentic anec-dotes with others to build personal relationships and special connections with your customers.”Lean on Your Mentors

Andres Taberes of Grayson, Ga., was working in a car body shop when he met his

now wife, Valeryn, and it was love at first sight. A few years ago, when they were expect-ing their first child, Andres realized that his long hours at the body shop would keep him from partaking in important milestones. So, he turned to his mentor for help: his mom, who happened to be a success-ful Avon Representative.

“My mom encouraged me to become an Avon Representa-tive and I’ve never looked back,” says Andres. “Listening to her share her own journey and the mistakes she made helped me carve out my own path. Soon after, my wife joined as well and now we live

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million to various organiza-tions, especially those that give a “hand up” to improve people’s lives, such as Central Florida Hillel at UCF, RAISE, and the Hamilton Holt School at Rollins College.

Ginsburg is CEO of AHG Group, a holding company based in Winter Park. He

founded CED Construction in 1987, which built more than 40,000 rental units for low-income families.

The article concludes: “The definition of a selfless philan-thropist [is] a bighearted man who has touched countless lives... I can only say, ‘Thanks, Mr. Ginsburg, for everything.’

Alan Ginsburg—one of ‘The Influentials’

Annually, since 2015, Winter Park Magazine has “saluted” people who make a difference in the commu-nity through their profes-sion, philanthropy, talents, volunteerism or community engagement.

Titled “The Influentials,” the magazine editors have been flooded with nomina-tions every year. This year’s list of 24 included the Jewish community’s Alan Ginsburg. Called “the stand-up phi-lanthropist” in the column, Ginsburg is described not only as an extremely generous phi-lanthropist, but also a pretty good stand-up comedian.

“I’m a ham at heart,” Gins-burg told the magazine. “When I open the refrigerator and the light comes on, I’m good for two or three minutes.”

All jokes aside, the Alan Ginsburg Family Foundation has donated more than $35

lennial men and millen-nial women have differing attitudes and habits in key areas, including their con-fidence levels, the financial products they own and their risk tolerance. More men feel confident than women that they’re saving enough for the future. And more women own basic financial accounts like checking, savings and money

markets, while more men own mutual funds and individual stocks and bonds. When it comes to risk tolerance, more men embrace or tolerate risk, while more women like to avoid risk.

“It’s critical that all mil-lennials take actionable steps to ensure their future is not in jeopardy, includ-ing saving for retirement,

participating in the markets and building an emergency fund,” says Rich Ramassini, CFP, senior vice president, Investments at PNC. “Given the findings of this survey, we encourage millennials to seek assistance from quali-fied financial advisors who can help make sure they’re on the path to securing a strong financial future.”

Millennial men vs. women: Different financial habits(StatePoint)—As the say-

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gender approaches their finances, the two groups might as well be from dif-ferent universes, according

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The survey reveals mil-

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(StatePoint)—For the mil-lions of Americans aged 65 and older, Medicare is a criti-cal source of health care. And during the Medicare Annual Election Period between Oct. 15 and Dec. 7, those eligible can select or make changes to their plans for 2019. Experts say that this selection is vitally important and should be done with care.

“It’s a good idea to go shopping for potential plans and consider each element of them,” says Brian Evanko, who leads Cigna’s government programs, including Cigna-

HealthSpring, which is a sup-plier of Medicare Advantage products. “Your goal should be to choose a plan that strikes the right balance between the benefits you‚’ll need and what you can afford.”

To help you choose a plan and get the most from it, con-sider these tips from the ex-perts at Cigna-HealthSpring:

• Determine your priori-ties. Plans can vary widely, and certain plans go beyond the basics to include such benefits as transportation assistance to doctor appointments, fit-ness classes, discounts on

home delivery of covered prescription medications and even nutritious meals after a hospital discharge. “Special needs plans” are available to those with qualifying condi-tions, such as having certain chronic illnesses or being eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Taking the time to identify your priorities and health care needs will help you evaluate your plan options from an informed standpoint.

• Know your network. The right plan will offer you sup-port in navigating a complex health care system, saving you

time and money. Seek out a plan that offers you a team of providers that will commit to getting to know your needs and delivering coordinated care. If you have favorite doc-tors or pharmacies, make sure they are within your network.

• Leverage preventive care opportunities. Preventive care saves lives and helps you delay or avoid the onset of disease. So, schedule your annual check-up and keep your appointment. Get to know your doctor and ask about any screenings you need for your age and background.

For more information about preventive care, visit cigna.com/takecontrol.

• Get active. Incorporate exercise into your routine; it’s essential to healthy ag-ing. While original Medicare doesn’t cover gym member-ships or fitness programs, a number of Medicare Advan-tage plans offer such benefits as part of their coverage at no extra cost.

• Use free resources. To compare plans, use free re-sources like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Plan Finder where plans are

rated from one to five stars. Many insurance plans offer no-cost, no-obligation semi-nars explaining plan details. You can also check health plans’ websites or call their customer service team for more information.

This Annual Election Pe-riod, consider your personal health circumstances and budget needs carefully. The right plan will help you maximize your physical and financial wellbeing, ensuring you have affordable access to the benefits you need all year long.

What to know when selecting a Medicare plan

(StatePoint)—While there’s no doubt that put-ting money aside with each paycheck is an essential component to a healthy financial future, it’s impor-tant to keep in mind that not all savings accounts are going to give you the same pay back or benefits.

It’s estimated that Ameri-can consumers are missing out on over $50 billion dol-lars of interest they could be earning every year. The average interest rate on sav-ings accounts is 0.08 percent, according to the FDIC, with

many of the largest financial institutions paying as little as 0.01 percent.

But did you know that the top online banks have interest rates 20 times higher than the national average, according to rates published by the FDIC? Because they have no physical branches, they are often able to pass on that savings to cus-tomers through consistently competitive rates.

“A traditional bank sav-ings account is certainly a safe vessel in which to deposit money, but it won’t necessarily help that money

grow,” says Diane Morais, president, Consumer & Com-mercial Banking Products for Ally Bank, Member FDIC, which won the title of Best Online Bank in the GOBank-ingRates Best Banks ranking from 2015-2018.

What’s more, online banks can offer greater convenience and flexibility, since consum-ers can bank from anywhere on computers and mobile devices, and there’s no wait-ing in line or waiting for the bank to open. The most common services and trans-actions (i.e. monthly account

maintenance fees, standard or expedited ACH transfers, domestic and international incoming wires, cashier’s checks and personal checks) are free at many online banks. And most online banks are FDIC insured, so a customer’s deposits are equally as pro-tected as they would be at a traditional bank.

To increase your savings, Morais recommends the fol-lowing:

• Pay yourself first. When you save, you are paying your-self, so be sure your monthly budget includes a line item

for savings. You can make it easier to commit to this great habit by setting up automatic transfers to your savings ac-count.

• Do a little research. Find a bank that will pay you a more competitive interest rate on your savings. You may have to do a bit of comparison shopping, but the extra money coming your way will make the effort worthwhile. Accord-ing to the FDIC, the median balance in U.S. savings ac-counts is around $5,000. At 0.01 percent interest, that equals 50 cents in interest

for the year, however if that money was in a savings ac-count at one of the top online banks, it would earn almost $90 of interest.

To learn more about saving with an online bank, visit www.ally.com.

It is estimated that con-sumers have about $3 trillion in bank accounts earning a relatively low interest rate. If a portion of that figure belongs to you, consider mak-ing your money work harder by moving it to an account with greater interest earning potential.

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“There is just too much cash running through these pot businesses for something not to change,” says Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish (www.sarahleegossettparrish.com), a cannabis industry lawyer. ‘’The status quo—not allowing banks to legally

work with pot businesses—is not going to work for very much longer.”

Although marijuana is still illegal under federal law, some state laws allow it, and that leaves distributors of legal marijuana in peril.

Wall Street interest in mari-juana firms is at an all time high. The North American cannabis market is expected to go from $9.2 billion in 2017 to $47.3 billion within 10

years, according to Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics.

That kind of money attracts the movers and shakers in the upper echelon of the financial markets who know how to pull strings in Washington. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said recently that if the Democrats’ narrow chances of capturing the Senate in November suc-ceed, Democrats would vote in favor of a bill to end federal

Legalized marijuana businesses could benefit from banking law changes

oversight of marijuana and let states handle the issue.

“The politics are tricky, but money is a great motivator in politics,” Parrish says. “Plus as more states continue to jump on the bandwagon, there will be huge incentives for the banks to want to get involved with the business.”

A few small credit unions offer marijuana businesses checking accounts, but most financial institutions are awaiting the federal gov-

ernment to act. And that means most marijuana busi-nesses are dealing with large amounts of cash.

Parrish says allowing finan-cial institutions to work with legal marijuana businesses would ease these issues:

• Financing. Marijuana growers are like any other business people. They occa-sionally need to borrow money for a variety of reasons. Being able to work with a bank will open up more opportunities.

• Credit card access. Cus-tomers would be able to use credit cards to purchase marijuana, and marijuana businesses would have better ways to track spending and income.

• Cash violence. It is not unusual for some marijuana businesses to handle $20,000 or more in cash. This is not only dangerous for the people carrying the money, but for innocent bystanders should a robbery occur.

• IRS paper trail. Cash transactions are easier to hide from the Internal Revenue Service. Putting the money in a bank is an easier way for the IRS to track revenue from a business.

“It is ridiculous for the federal government to put these shackles on businesses that are allowed to operate under their state laws,” Par-rish says. “But it can’t last. Money talks.”

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Not long ago, Jeff Bezos took to Twitter to ask the world for charitable-giving ideas.

The Amazon.com founder sought a charitable strategy that looked at the long term and soon he was inundated with suggestions.

Of course, Bezos has plenty of money to give, but you don’t need to be a billionaire to reach a point in life when you start feeling the charitable urge.

“There comes a time when many of us want to do more than just accumulate money and property,” says Patrick

Renn (www.patrickrenn.com) a financial professional and author of the best-selling book, “Finding Your Money’s Greater Purpose.”

“You want to distribute the bounty. You want to enjoy what you worked to acquire, of course, but part of the change in attitude is looking to see how you can do more than just take care of yourself.”

But who should your wealth—whether abundant or meager—go to? Should all of it be kept in the family when you die? Should it go to your church? A favorite

charity? The college that educated you?

Ultimately, only each indi-vidual can answer that ques-tion, Renn says. But there are steps that can help you prepare for making that decision. They include:

• Be aware that circum-stances change. When you die, whatever you accumulated can end up in the hands of family, other beneficiaries, charities—or Uncle Sam. “A lot of people I talk to think they have it all worked out and that the IRS is going to get nothing,” Renn says. “But

often, when I examine their documents and analyze the numbers, I discover that’s not true. It’s not always because they did a bad job. More than likely, it’s because tax laws changed since they did their calculations, or something about their personal situation changed.”

• Realize that fair doesn’t always mean equal. People often divide an inheritance into equal shares. If there are three children, for example, then each gets one-third. Renn says people should sometimes reconsider the

automatic urge to do that. For example, both children may be hard working, but one might be well off financially while the other is struggling to make ends meet. One sib-ling might be more adept at handling money, while the other will quickly blow any inheritance.

• Understand that even small gifts can help. Many people think that leaving something to charity is for the very rich only. But Renn says anyone, regardless of net worth, can find something they care about and include

that charity, organization or cause as part of their legacy. A financial professional might even be able to help you leverage your resources so that your gift accomplishes more than you would have imagined.

“We can contribute to the greater good with our time, our efforts and our money,” Renn says. “In giving fi-nancially, we are, in effect, giving all three, since money represents the fruit of our time and effort. When we share our money, we share ourselves.”

How to decide who merits your money

We’ve all heard the expres-sion “innovate or die.” But there are endless examples of companies that made cutting-edge ideas a priority, yet their can’t-miss products—and sometimes the businesses themselves—died untimely deaths anyway.

“People often don’t real-ize that a product can be smart and work well, and still fail when it hits the marketplace,” says Mayur Ramgir (www.mayurramgir.com), president and CEO of Zonopact Inc., a software de-

velopment firm that special-izes in innovative business solutions.

Don’t get him wrong. Businesses that encourage employees to innovate have the right idea, says Ramgir, who also is the author of “Unbarred Innovation: A Pathway to Greatest Dis-coveries.” But they can’t assume their breakthroughs will succeed on merit alone. The development process must take even the tiniest possible customer pushback into consideration.

He says mistakes compa-nies make include:

• Not caring about price. Many innovative companies neglect to do a cost-benefit analysis from the customer’s point of view, Ramgir says. Even if a product has more benefits than what is cur-rently on the market, people won’t buy it if the price is too high.

For example, a thermostat with built-in Wi-Fi that can be programmed remotely and saves energy is fantastic. But if it costs $300, and you can

get a programmable ther-mostat with fewer bells and whistles for less than $50, the customer base could be limited.

• Ignoring optics. An idea may be wonderful and ben-eficial, but still look bad to consumers, Ramgir says. Re-member the Segway, the two-wheeled electric vehicle for scooting down city sidewalks? As nifty as it was, the Segway never took off. There were sev-eral reasons, Ramgir says, but one of those is that in a time of obesity worries, health-

conscious people didn’t want to be viewed as lazy by riding a device that eliminates the need for walking.

• Disregarding social norms. A product will fail if it makes people feel uncomfort-able. A good example is Google Glass, the head-mounted computer system that ar-rived with a huge splash in 2012—and then belly flopped. Turns out, the possibility that someone could discreetly take photos or videos of you dur-ing a private moment—even in a public restroom—was

too creepy. And the product was banned from venues that didn’t want any recording going on, including movie theaters, private clubs and casinos.

Ramgir urges innovators to think of their ideas like “a piece of a puzzle that has to be just the right shape—on all sides—to fit into people’s lives.”

“If your idea is too expen-sive, makes the user feel un-comfortable or makes others uncomfortable,” he says, “it may never succeed.”

Three reasons why the ‘best’ business ideas may fail miserably

Spouses often harbor dif-ferent opinions on a variety of subjects. From the style of clothes and haircuts they like on each other to the TV shows they watch every evening, marriage requires plenty of compromise.

While frivolous things such as choosing between Monday Night Football and Dancing with the Stars might conjure up a minor squabble, when it comes to arguments over money, respective differences can lead to more than just mild disagreements.

“Income and spending are at the heart of any part-nership—family as well as business,” says Al Jacobs, an entrepreneur, real estate investor and author of the book Roadway to Prosperity

(www.roadwaytoprosperity.com).

“Just as business partners need to be on the same page when it comes to spending company money, spouses need to come together to avoid creating a crisis situation that could ruin a marriage.”

Jacobs says there are four basic issues that would put families in better financial shape if both spouses could be in accord on them:

• Life insurance. Every family provider should ar-range financially for his or her survivors in the event of an untimely death. A common way to accomplish this is with life insurance. This is where controversy arises. You want an inexpensive and unadorned 20- or 30-year level benefit

term policy, of sufficient face value (normally no less than 10 times the insured’s annual income). Spouses must agree on a policy and not waiver once it is purchased.

• Credit cards. No single implement has led to greater misery for more families than the credit card, Jacobs says. These should be used as merely a convenience when cash is not available, and account balances should be paid in full each month be-fore any interest is charged. Both spouses must conduct their lives by this rule. If either cannot do so, Jacobs recommends destroying the credit cards.

• Transportation. The car constitutes the typical Ameri-can’s single most important

Four money issues couples should agree on

(StatePoint)—Growth is in the future for America’s mid-sized businesses, suggests new research, and experts say that this indicates positive things for job seekers and the economy at-large.

A recent survey of middle market executives found that they are more positive about the health of their businesses and more optimistic about their prospects for future growth than at any time in the last three years. The survey was conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of CIT Group Inc., a leading provider of fi-nancing to the middle market, in an effort to stay in close touch with trends affecting these businesses.

“Middle market companies are important contributors to a healthy economy,” says Jim Hudak, president of CIT’s Commercial Finance division. “We are encouraged by survey

results showing that a large majority of its leadership expect their companies will grow and invest in the year ahead.”

The majority of executives at middle market companies surveyed say the health of their company is strong (84 percent), that their company is better off today than a year ago (70 percent), and that their company has experienced in-creases in sales (77 percent), product demand (76 percent), and customers (73 percent) over the past year.

As a group, these executives are pleased with the current state of the economy, and their perceptions on all three eco-nomic fronts—local, national and global—have grown increasingly more positive since 2015.

Middle market executives also foresee a brighter future, with a large majority expect-

ing growth over the next 12 months through geographic expansion within the U.S., product diversification, grow-ing the scope of their products and services, and expanding into adjacent markets. What’s more, 81 percent expect to hire additional employees over the next 12 months, and 93 percent plan to invest in their business in 2018.

Despite their general opti-mism, middle market leaders do worry about such matters as data security, inflation and the challenges of hiring and retaining talent. Lingering economic uncertainty also remains an issue, though less so than in 2016.

Whether you are in the market for a new job, or you want to grow your business, survey results indicating an optimistic middle market is good news for your business and career goals.

Mid-size companies foresee growth

fixation. No other product is more forcefully marketed, and far too many people succumb to its allure, Jacobs says, for-feiting a substantial portion of disposable income. He says no one should drive a leased or financed vehicle. Instead, Jacobs recommends paying cash, even if that means you drive a 1984 Toyota Corolla.

• Education. The educa-tional establishment has

convinced the nation that a university must appear pres-tigious and be costly for it to be worthwhile, Jacobs says. The result: Untold numbers of college graduates and their parents are in hock big time, some never to emerge from debt. Jacobs suggests that unless a student is able to earn a scholarship, freshman and sophomore years should be spent at a community college,

commuting from home, and the junior and senior years at a reasonably priced local state university.

“The social and psychologi-cal pressures brought to bear on customers are more than many people can resist,” says Jacobs. “But if two people hope to prosper together, both spouses must avoid the impulse to make purchases unwisely.”

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By Sam Seiden

Profitable trading and investing comes down to two groups, those who know what they are doing (banks and financial institutions) and those who don’t (aver-age traders and investors). In the trading and investing world, those who know what they are doing simply get paid from those who don’t. This is no surprise as banks and financial institutions are very educated in the financial markets, average traders and investors are not.

I began my career on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on the bank side of the business, so I learned what the smart mon-ey does and how it thinks. When it comes to consistent profits, there are only two questions that matter:

1. Where will price turn?2. Where will price move

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can’t predict market turns and moves in advance. I say you can, and with a very high degree of accuracy. Let me explain.

Let’s start by answering the two questions and see what this looks like on a price chart. Once we do, we can apply this strategy to any market, whether investing in stocks, bonds, futures, forex, options, etc., and for any financial purpose (short-term income trading, long term investments for wealth, retirement planning, etc.).

How do you tell where price will turn?

How money is really made in marketsMarket price turns at

price levels where supply and demand are out of balance. Banks and financial institu-tions are consistently very profitable, and they create the largest imbalances as they buy and sell the largest quantities. So, if we can see where they are buying and selling on a price chart, we can buy and sell there also.

Here is what that looks like:

During a recent live trad-ing session, we identified a buying opportunity in Gold. Looking at the chart on the left, the yellow area represents demand, where banks are buying Gold. How do we know this? Price was trading for a short period of time and then rallied strong from that level. That rally can only happen because demand exceeds supply. Shortly after, price declined

back to that demand level, as seen on the chart on the right. When price revisits the demand level, novice traders are selling. We know this because only a novice trader would sell AFTER a decline in price and at a price level where demand exceeds sup-ply (banks are buying). This is where we bought.

How do you know where will price move to?

In any and all markets, price simply moves from demand to supply and back again. Once all the buy and sell orders are filled at a de-mand or supply level, price moves to the next level. By seeing supply and demand on a price chart, we can predict market moves in advance with a very high degree of accuracy. Prior to deciding to take the trade, we must identify the profit zone. The

profit zone is the distance from demand to supply.

Most people never come close to achieving their fi-nancial goals because they don’t pay attention to price when investing or they make buy and sell decisions backwards. For example, when buying a stock, most people make sure it’s a great company with solid earnings, a healthy balance sheet and a

stock price that is in a strong uptrend. Think about it... When all those things are present in the stock, where do you think the price of the stock is? It’s almost always high, at or near retail prices (supply). How you make money buying and selling as a retail business is exactly how you make money buying and selling in the markets. Buy at Demand (wholesale), sell at Supply (retail). This allows

you to buy and sell where banks and financial institu-tions are buying and selling, which helps you achieve your financial goals and is the key

to living the life you choose to live.

Sam Seiden is chief trading strategist, Online Trading Academy.

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