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b e t w e e n t h e m a t e r i a l i s m o f

H e l l e n i s m a n d the deep spiri-

tual force of Judaism, Judaism

found the strength to sustain itself

and its victory made possible the

perpetuation not only of the

Hebraic tradition itself but the

entire Judaic philosophy which

gave rise to what is called the

Judaeo-Christian civilization.

Undoubtedly, a considerable

share of the importance which has

been attached to Chanukah is its

chronological proximity to

Christmas and the necessity of

offering a Jewish counterpart to the

influence which this Christian festi-

val exerts upon Jewish children. Be

that as it may, it is no more than fit-

ting that we celebrate joyously this

spiritual victory, ever-present testi-

mony to the validity of a great reli-

gion and ethical system.

The story of Chanukah is,

with that of Queen Esther of Purim

fame, among the best-known leg-

ends of Jewish history. Judas

Maccabee, his father Mattathias

and the other stalwarts of the

Maccabean line, have been cele-

brated in song and story for cen-

turies and there are few Jewish

children who have not been thrilled

by the heroism of their ancestors.

For the adult, of course,

Chanukah has a greater signifi-

cance than that merely of a suc-

cessful struggle against a tyranni-

cal conqueror, for the centuries fol-

lowing the martial achievements of

the Maccabees show how evanes-

cent was the military victory which

these heroes had won. Its greater

significance lies in the victory of

the spirit which was won in the

hills of Judaea. In the struggle

The Meaning of

Chanukah

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RABBI YEHUDA GLICK PREPARES TO LEAVE SHAARE ZEDEK

Hospital after being shot by Arab assassins. Rabbi Glick gave a

touching and emotional press conference thanking those who had

helped save his life. He made special note of the fact that at the

hospital he was treated by both Jewish and Arab doctors and

caretakers working side by side. These are the Muslims, said

Glick, “who are bringing respect to God and their religion, not

those who murder in the name of religion”. Photo credit: Shaare

Zedek Medical Center.

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and the Jewish people.The Conference of

European Rabbis hasannounced it will awardValls with this year’s LordJakobivitz Prize forEuropean Jewry for his“exemplary determinationin the fight against anti-Semitism.”

2002, during a wave of anti-Semitism, teenagers startedthrowing stones at Jewswalking to a synagogue inEvry, a suburb of Paris.Valls, then the mayor,joined the weekly syna-gogue walk. As InteriorMinister Valls went after thecomedian DieudonneM’bala M’bala, the creator ofthe quasi Nazi salute knownas the quenelle. Vallsdescribed it as an “anti-Semitic gesture of hate”.“Without Jews”, says Valls,“France will no longer beFrance”. The new prime

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With the wave of

anti-Semitism that hasspread across Francerecently, it might beassumed that French Jewryhas no friends in highplaces. But two ministersin the current governmenthave gone out of their wayto express their friendshipand respect for FrenchJewry.

Interior MinisterBernard Cazeneuve told theFrench Jewish Radio JStation that “I feel moreclose to you than you canimagine...Also in my heart,through ties of affection and

friendship and sentiment,but also, and this is almostmore important to me -through spirit”. Cazeneuveexpressed his concern overthe spike in French anti-Semitism. “Every time youfeel the violence exercisedagainst you, when you areafraid for yourchildren...remind your-selves that the republic pro-tects you and an interiorminister who loves you andwho is your friend.”

And then there’sFrance’s new prime minis-ter Manuel Valls(Cazeneuvereplaced Valls as InteriorMinister). His long historyof friendship towards FrenchJewry is well known. In

minister’s marriage toJewish violist Anne Gravoinin 2011 “connected him inan eternal way” to Israel

Yemen Minister

Shows Class

Fewer than 90 Jewsstill live in Yemen and lifehas not been easy for them.Radical Islamists haveforced half of the remainingJews to live in a guardedcompound which protects


CHEMO AT NIGHT?NEW ISRAELI STUDY SUGGESTS TUMORS GROW MORE QUICKLY AT NIGHT

By LINDA GRADSTEIN, MEDIA LINE

Cancer scientistshave long been interested inhow and why tumors growand spread. Now a group atthe Weizmann Institute ofScience has found thattumors might grow morequickly at night, meaningthat it might be more effi-cient to give chemotherapyduring the night rather thanduring daytime.

“It could mean thatsome treatments should bedone during the night,”Yehoshua Enuka, one of theauthors of the report toldThe Media Line. “It could

also lead to a better under-standing of the exact biolog-ical and molecular mecha-nism that governs theprocess of tumor progres-sion.”

The findings whichwere published in Nature

Communications, were doneon gastric tumors in miceand the experiment has notbeen done yet on humansubjects. In the case of themice, which are more activeduring the night and sleepduring the day, the tumorsgrew more quickly duringthe day. The hypo-

thesis is that in the case ofpeople, the tumors will growfaster at night than duringthe day. It would thereforebe more effective to givechemotherapy at night.

Non-scientists mightquestion how much validitya study on mice could haveon human cancer, but sci-entists say humans aremore similar to mice thanwe might think.

“There’s a concept ofa model organism in biolo-gy,” Don Katcoff of theFaculty of Life Sciences atBar Ilan University told The

Media Line. “The physiologyis similar and many of thesame rules apply.”

He also said thefindings that were pub-lished do seem to be break-ing new ground.

“They found that thetumors became smaller ifchemotherapy was given tothe mice during the day-time, which is equivalent toour night,” he said. “Theyfound that it the differencewas statistically significant,but there is a conglomerateo f f ac to rs tha t go in to


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M A T T E R

O F T I M EISLAMISTS CLAIM ISRAEL’S DESTRUCTION

IS INEVITABLE

By DR. MITCHELL BARD

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The ObamaAdministration rejectedIsraeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu’s com-parison of ISIS and Hamas,a view that is both ignorantand dangerous, but consis-tent with the internationaltendency to treat thePalestinians as a uniqueclass that deserves specialtreatment, including look-ing the other way when itcomes to their ideology.

Hamas, however,does not conceal its inten-tions, publishing its coven-

ant in 1988 with an explicitcall for Israel’s destruction.Notice also that Hamas doesnot distinguish betweenJews and Israel: Here are afew excerpts:

Our struggle againstthe Jews is very great andvery serious...It strives toraise the banner of Allahover every inch ofPalestine...It is one of thelinks in the chain of thestruggle against the Zionistinvaders...

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Once again,Jerusalem is in mourning. Iattended the funeral yester-day of three of the four menwho were murdered as theystood in prayer. Apparentlyone of the murderersworked in a grocery storenear the synagogue. Heprobably knew some of thepeople he butchered withhis meat cleaver.”

I joined the largecrowd in shared grief andshock, but this time it was ofa more personal nature. Mycousin was one of the vic-tims. They say he struggledwith one of the man beastsbefore he succumbed.

Aryeh Kupinsky wasbrought to Israel from theUSA by his idealist parents


AUTHOR’S COUSIN WAS A VICTIM OF TERROR

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THE PRINCIPALITYOF MONACO: When wedecided to spend a few daysin Nice, friends told us totake the train one night andexperience dazzling MonteCarlo in Monaco.

The principality ofMonaco (http://www.visit-monaco.com) has a colorfuland fascinating historyfilled with barbarians, kingsand even a movie star. It isa story of castles, epic bat-tles and untold riches.Since 2005, H.S.H. PrinceAlbert II – already known asthe green Prince for hisinterest in the environment– has been leading thePrincipality into the 21stcentury with the support ofhis sisters H.R.H.Princess of Hanover and

H.S.H. Princess Stephanie.In 2011 Prince Albert mar-ried Charlene Wittstock.

Monaco enjoys aprivileged location at theheart of MediterraneanEurope. The Principality isnestled between the Alpsand the Mediterranean Sea,bounded by the FrenchRiviera to the west and theItalian Riviera to the east.This is the second smallestcountry in the world, afterVatican City - three mileslong by one-half miles wide(about the size of New York'sCentral Park). WhileMonaco is the name of thecountry, Monte-Carlo is adistrict within Monaco.

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Emad Halabi firstworked in Israel when hewas 16 years old. Now, atthe age of 50, he still takesjobs in the Jewish state orin Jewish communitiesbuilt on land Israel acquiredin 1967 when he can getthem. The money he makeshelps support his large fam-ily.

While he passed hiscollege entrance exam, hedropped out of two separate

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universities twice. He took ajob cleaning at HebrewUniversity in Jerusalembecause it paid well.

“When you landed ajob working in Israel or the“settlements”, people enviedyou and considered youlucky because there’s nosubstitute. That’s still thecase today,” he told TheMedia Line, adding that hewas never harassed for


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deciding how muchchemotherapy to give andwhat kinds of compounds touse.”

He suggested it waslikely that a similar trialwould be conducted withpeople to see if the findingsare replicated.

Dr. Matia Lauriola,Bologna University in Italy,and the primary author ofthe paper, said the newground broken has to dowith the interactionbetween tumor growth andthe hormone receptor fac-tor. The receptors are pro-tein molecules found eitheron the cell’s surface or with-in cells. The researchfocused on two specificreceptors – the epidermalgrowth factor receptor,EGFR, helps cells, includingcancer cells, grow andmigrate. The second recep-tor binds to a steroid hor-mone called a glucocorticoid(GC), similar to cortisol.This is often called the“stress hormone” becauseits levels rise in stressfulsituations.

“Nobody looked atthe interaction between dif-ferent factors in thesecases,” Lauriola told TheMedia Line. “We are the firstto look at these interactionsand we think it is importantfor the understanding of themechanism that has been

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important for tumorgrowth.”

The scientists gave abreast cancer drug,Lapatinib, to mice with can-cer. The drug is meant toinhibit EGFR, to prevent thegrowth of the cancer cells.They were more effectiveduring the day, when themice were sleeping, than atnight.

Yehoshua Enuka ofthe Weizmann Institute says

that the research could helpscientists understand howtumors grow.

“It sheds new lighton tumor progression,” hesaid. “If we know it pro-gresses more at night, weknow there are differentbiological mechanisms thatare more prevalent duringthe night. The cortisolseems to block the biologi-cal processes that enhancethe tumor.”

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bless him and grant himsalvation, has said: "TheDay of Judgment will notcome about until Muslimsfight the Jews (killing theJews), when the Jew willhide behind stones and

trees. The stones and treeswill say, ‘O Muslims, OAbdulla, there is a Jewbehind me, come and killhim’”....There is no solutionfor the Palestine questionexcept through Jihad.Initiatives, proposals andinternational conferencesare all a waste of time andvain endeavors. Palestine isan Islamic land.

The principles of thecovenant, which Hamasofficials and clerics publiclyrepeat without hesitation,are blatantly anti-Semitic,containing classic conspira-cy theories straight out ofthe Protocols of the Eldersof Zion. Jews are accused of“undermining societies,destroying values, corrupt-

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ing consciences, deteriorat-ing character and annihilat-ing Islam.” Jews are also“behind the drug trade andalcoholism...to facilitate itscontrol and expansion.”

According to Hamas,Muslims must combat thethreat posed by the Jewsthrough jihad. And this isnot just a Palestinian oblig-ation; Hamas expects theentire Islamic world to jointhis holy war. The bottomline for Hamas – and all theIslamists – is that “no partof Palestine can be surren-dered. No single Arabregime or number ofregimes acting together hasthe right to break this trustand give up any of this land,not even the Palestiniansthemselves….reconqueringthe lands is considered asolemn religious duty.”

Contrary to adminis-tration claims that Hamas

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THE REMNANTS OF

Palestinian homes

destroyed in Jericho.

The homes were built in

Area C, which falls

under Israeli administra-

tive and military control

and were built without

permits. A proposal by

Israel to build 1400

homes for Palestinians

in Area C around Jericho

has met with consider-

able opposition from set-

tlers who believe that

any homes for

Palestinians should be

built in areas A and B.

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does not share the ISIS goalof world conquest, thegroup believes that, afterliberating Palestine, it cancreate a model Islamicstate, which will “becomethe vanguard of a largerIslamist movement thatwill embrace all Muslims,who will eventually shedtheir respective national-ist convictions and restorethe universal Islamic poli-ty and the glories of thepast.”

What makes negoti-ations with Hamas or anyother Islamist groupimpossible is that theybelieve they are actingaccording to theimmutable word of god.Israel cannot do anythingto satisfy them, asEgyptian clericMuhammad HusseinYa’qub said in a televisedsermon in 2009. “If theJews left Palestine to us,would we start lovingthem? Of course not,” heexplained. “The Jews areinfidels not because I sayso but because Allahdoes… They aren’t our ene-mies because they occupyPalestine; they would beour enemies even if theyhad not occupied any-thing.” This is one exampleof why State DepartmentArabists are delusional tobelieve that solving theconflict with thePalestinians will bringpeace and tranquility tothe Middle East.


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The radical Islamicfocus on Israel is partly amatter of convenience; itserves as an easy rallyingpoint for the masses.Moreover, these Muslimshave little doubt that Israelcan be destroyed becausetime is on their side. Giventhe perspective of centuries,the current situation inwhich the U.S. is the globalsuperpower and Israel isconsidered the region’sdominant power is deemeda temporary phenomenon.Many Muslims believe that


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the Palestinians will vastlyoutnumber the Jews in t h e a r e a b e t w e e n t h eM e d i t e r r a n e a n andJordan River (not to men-tion the 300 millionMuslims in surroundingcountries) and will thenoverwhelm the Jews by thesheer force of their num-bers. They also believe thatit is just a matter of timebefore they acquire nuclearweapons, regardless of theoutcome of the effort to haltIran’s nuclear program. Atthat point they will alsohave the military means todestroy Israel.

An Arab adage says,“A man who gains hisrevenge after 40 years isacting in haste.” Muslimsrecognize it took 200 yearsto expel the Crusaders, butthey did it and, though itmay take 200 years toexpel the Zionists, they areconfident they will do so.Ahmed Yousef, politicaladviser to then PalestinianPrime Minister IsmailHaniyeh of Hamas, said itall in the title of his book,“The End of the JewishState: Just a Matter ofTime.”


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be seen in the cemeteriesand the thousands oforphans and widows.

One is never angrywith a wild dog. The onethat lets him off the leash isthe culprit.

As our Torahinforms/warns us, Ishmaelis a "wild man". The Torahuses this description onlyonce, and it has been trueever since.

From the time of andjust after the Six Day Warwhen the Israeli governmentand particularly DefenceMinister Moshe Dayanurged the defeated and pan-icked Arabs not to flee forthe borders, the seeds for anever increasing Jewishbloodletting were sown.

There is no othercountry in the Mid East asstrong militarily as Israel.Then again it depends onhow one measures strength.If at the end of the day thebest jets and pilots andtanks etc. have no effecton a population that fearswaiting for a bus or prayingin the morning, then howstrong can the countryactually be? How sick is itto hear too many politi-cians, journalist, juristsand other beacons of moral-ity and knowledge, equatethe "extremists on bothsides" and warn of a lack ofa " hopeful political horizon”or “the need for dialogue.”

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No, what drives Arabterror is not despair butrather hope. The hope ofbrutally killing all the Jews.Simple. And guess what? Ithas nothing to do with theTemple Mount or the priceof tea in China. It’s aboutus.

What kind of a soci-e t y / c u l t u r e / r e l i g i o nencourages young and oldto dance in the streets andpass out sweets at the newsthat human beings werehacked to death.? Whatkind of parents are proud of


as they settled in KiryatArba, the then, new pioneeroutpost near Hebron, Heleaves five orphans and awidow behind to figure outhow to carry on. Far toomany Jewish families inIsrael have a cousin Aryeh...or father or spouse or sonor daughter. (The attack atHar Nof left four widows and24 orphans)

So what is happen-ing today? Well we areassured that the authori-ties will vanquish the terrorand calls forcalm...and...let’s see..moresecurity personnel on thestreets, and, oh yes, theplacing of big concreteblocks near train stations. Ihave also noticed thatpolice vehicles accompanythe trains especially in theArab neighborhoods wherethey have burned down thestations and attacked thepassing trains. Citizenswith gun licenses are nowasked to be armed at alltimes just in case.. Schoolsand similar places are to bemore tightly guarded.Walls, tunnels concreteblocks. Fortress Jerusalem.

How many lightyears away is this situationfrom the heady days of 1967when after the miraculousvictory, Jerusalem Arabswould barely dare to look aJew in the eye. I remember.A Jew felt more than simplysafe in Jerusalem then.That was exactly why I leftBrooklyn, NY and camehome.

Sadly, the warpedvalues and disproportionateinfluence of the Israeli Lefthas succeeded in just abouterasing that feeling, a feel-ing that isn't even a mem-ory for younger Israelis.They never knew the highspirits I felt in those fewyears. Similarly, theyounger Arab generationnever knew the shock andawe of the Jewish lion thatriveted their parents. Thecost of this reversal can


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their martyr children forripping people apart limb bylimb And what kind of acountry does not spit theseanimals out and expel theincorrigible, malignantgrowth once and for all?

Golda Meir oncesaid, "there will be peacewhen the Arab mothers lovetheir children more thanthey hate ours”.

We really can notwait much longer.

Monte Carlo was a remark-able dinner at the SalleEmpire (http://www.monte-carlosbm.com) at the gor-geous Hôtel de Paris(hoteldeparismontecarlo.com).We took the train from Niceto Monte Carlo and enjoyeda pleasant 10 minute walkthrough town to this mostbreathtaking facility wherewe were seated on a magnif-icent terrace overlooking theentrance to the grand casi-no. This was “people watch-ing” at its best. A musicaltrio serenaded us with softsongs and a group ofservers provided us withsensational service, startingthings off with champagne,soft lemon rolls and theirsignature potato chips.

It is in the SalleEmpire that haute gastron-omy is served during privatedinners catering for up to350 guests, and concertsand shows are organized forinvited audiences.Spectacular celebrationsalso take place in this set-ting, unique in Europe. It is


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tasted his culinary excel-lence earlier on in the trip atLe Jules Verne Restaurantat the Eiffel Tower.

Home to chic galas,refined dinners and thePrincipality’s most sophisti-cated soirées, the SalleEmpire - a classified histor-ical monument - underwentcareful and meticulousrestoration in 2004. Eighthundred thousand goldleaves (the equivalent of agold bar) for its ceiling, fiveFrench windows openingout to the terrace overlook-ing the Place du Casino (adistinctive feature whichastonishes guests), swathesof silk and precious trim-mings...nothing has beenforgotten to glorify its styleand its beauty.

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lowed by raw and cookedvegetables from the hotel’sown garden, with tangyjuice. We then enjoyed someamazing eggplant ravioliwith fresh goat’s cheese andthyme lemon. The maincourse was a roasted lack oflamb from prealps rubbedwith summer savory andsummer vegetable. It wasbeautifully prepared.

There were no lessthan three separatedesserts: home-made deli-cacies and chocolates fromthe Hôtel de Paris; red fruit,strawberry juice and vanillaice cream; and a traditionalchocolate soufflé. Theservers made a hole in themiddle and poured hotchocolate sauce inside. Weeach got a side plate ofwhipped cream. This was solight and beyond delicious.The final serving was amoka coffee. The Hôtel deParis falls under the aus-pices of the Group Monte-Carlo SBM (www.sbm.mc),which oversees four casi-nos, four luxury and topquality hotels (Hôtel deParis, Hôtel Hermitage,Monte Carlo Beach andMonte-Carlo Bay Hotel &


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citizens. They come mainlyfrom France and the UnitedKingdom but also fromNorth Africa and Turkey.The Association CulturelleIsraelite de Monaco is ahouse that has been con-verted into a synagogue, acommunity Hebrew school,and kosher food shop, Thecommunity does have arabbi, who leads weekly

JEWISH COMMUNI-TY: There were some 300Jews living in Monaco priorto World War II. To savetheir Jewish citizens fromNazi persecution, the princi-pality’s government issuedfalse identity papers. PrinceLouis 11 helped save Edouard

Rothschild from deportation.In 1948 the

Association CulturelleIsraelite de Monaco becamethe official organization ofthe community. Today,most of the 1000 Jews livein Monte Carlo, althoughfew of them are actually

services and teaches class-es. There are services onShabbat. Several organiza-tions, including WIZO andB’nai B’rith, are active inthe community.

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being Palestinian.Even when the first

Intifada broke out in 1987Halabi continued workingin Israel to achieve thePalestinian goal: save upmoney, build a house andget married, which is whathe did in 1990. Without thework in Israel, this wouldnot have been possible. InIsrael, he says, he makes$80 per day as a laborer,compared to $60 per day inthe Palestinian territories.

“I tile one squaremeter (for a Palestinian pro-ject) in the West Bank, I get$7. In “settlements”, thesame amount gets me $14,while inside Israel it’s $28.The decision is an easy one.

Halabi says on aver-

age, a Palestinian makes$420 a month working inthe West Bank, while inIsrael workers earn doublethis.

“When I see my kidscan’t eat until I go to thesettlement to work, ofcourse I’m going to go so Ican not only feed them butgive them a good life,” hesaid. An estimated 25,000Palestinians work in con-struction in Jewish commu-nities in the West Bank, andsome Palestinians have saidthey should quit becausethey are entrenching theIsraeli occupation and mak-ing an independentPalestinian state less likely.

Emad Halabi is oneof 40,000 West Bank resi-


(COGAT) said the number ofworking permits forPalestinians to enter Israelhas increased because ofthe “regional stability andsecurity.”

According to its2013 statistics, COGATissued 42,731 permits toPalestinians working inIsrael and 24,812 permitsto those working in Jewishcommunities in the WestBank.

The PalestinianLabor ministry says it is try-ing to encouragePalestinians to work inPalestinian factories andindustries, but not finding iteasy. The unemploymentrate in the West Bank is 24percent, and even higheramong recent universitygraduates. The PalestinianAuthority has recently triedto encourage workers to


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dents with an Israeli permitto work in Israel. Accordingto the Palestinian LaborMinistry, an additional30,000 work without per-mits.

“We discouragethose Palestinians whowork without permitsbecause we cannot protectthem if they are mistreat-ed,” Ministry of Labor offi-cial Assem Abu Baker toldThe Media Line. For exam-ple if a laborer is injuredwhile on the job, hisemployer could refuse topay for hospital coverage.

To get a permit, menneed to be married, have atleast one child, and be atleast 24 years old. Israelbelieves that men in thesecategories are less likely tocommit terrorist attacks.

The office of theCoordinator for GovernmentActivities in the Territories

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“People did not wantto listen,” Abu Baker of the

Labor Ministry said. “Highdesirable salaries have keptthe Palestinians sneaking into Israel or working in set-tlements.”

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Hikmat Elian, 22,dropped out of college hisfirst year, mostly becausehe did not see any jobprospects ahead. Instead,from 2011-2013, he workedon the production plantstaff at Sodastream, inMaale Adumim, nearJerusalem.

While he said it wasa very difficult job, some-times standing 12 hours onyour feet, he says it wasworth it because they paidwell. “No one ever ques-tioned my working in a set-tlement because everyoneknows the money is betteron the Israeli side,” Elian, aresident of Al Azaria toldThe Media Line.

His average salarywas $7 per hour and onSaturdays he would receive$17 an hour. Each morning,he would go down to therendezvous spot where anIsraeli bus would pick himup along with 200 people.

Of course, there was theusual security check.

“There were argu-ments but the kind that youhave at any work. They werenot political or anything likethat. There was no discrim-ination against us,” he said.

In 2010, the PA cre-ated a fund to provide alter-native employment andgrants in an effort to bothdiscourage Palestiniansfrom working in the settle-ments and boost the WestBank economy. But that didnot bear fruit. The instabili-ty in the West Bank did notgive hope either.

Economist NasrAbdelkarim says if the laborministry or PA in generalwants to stop people fromworking in Israel or settle-ments, they need to encour-age it. “It’s not a politicaldecision. Palestinian labor-ers are motivated by theeconomic factors,” he said.



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He suggests tryingto decrease dependency ofPalestinians on Israel andinstead strengthening tieswith the rest of the world.“The government shoulddesign a policy to attract

investors to the agriculturaland manufacturing indus-tries,” he told The MediaLine. This would result injob creation, as well asbring money into thePalestinian economy.

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Palestinians working in Israel or for Israeli com-

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Palestinians cities and villages. Hillel Manne, cen-

ter, owns a boutique winery in Beit El. He employs

two Palestinian workers from nearby Ramallah.

Their weekly wages are six times what the would

earn working for a Palestinian enterprise. While

they do experience some resentment when they

return home, their primary concern is to

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extremism and discrimina-tion against women. Sheannounced that she is giv-ing the award to her “broth-ers and friends from theJewish community”. Shehas repeatedly called for“tolerance”, despite beingconstantly subjected tosmear campaigns by hard-line Salafi groups for hersupport of the Jewish com-munity.

Muslim Leader

Condemns Attacks

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the US Embassy in the cap-ital of Sanaa.

But at least one gov-ernment official had thecourage to show her friend-ship towards the Jews ofher country. CultureMinister Arwa Othman wonHuman Rights Watch’sAlison Des forges Award forh e r w o r k c o m b a t t i n g

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Ahmadi Muslim reli-gious leader, SheikhMuhammad Sharif Odeh,who lives in Israel, con-demned all the recent terrorattacks carried out byPalestinians under the pre-text of defending the Islamicholy sites. "I visited thesynagogue that wasattacked in Jerusalem, andfrom the first moment, I felta sense of anger because ofthis shameful act, whichdoes not conform to our glo-rious Islam". In an op-edpublished in Ma'an, a pri-vate Palestinian newsagency, he said thatMuslims must "defend, firstof all, the churches, housesof worship and monasteriesof their fellow men, evenbefore their own mosques."

Rejecting the state-ments of the PA and Fatahleadership, who have sup-ported, defended and glori-fied the attacks, Odehwrote: "I assert that thosepeople who are attemptingto sanction this crime orincite to similar acts in thename of religion have nobacking from the Quran."

He stated thatcrimes like the killings inthe synagogue "contradictthe principles of tolerance"in Islam”.

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Muslim Community is a rel-atively small branch ofIslam that was founded atthe end of the 19th centuryand has between 10 and 20million followers. Manymainstream Muslims con-sider Ahmadis heretics andnon-Muslim, and they havebeen subjected to persecu-tion and oppression.Pakistan, for example,amended its Constitution tocategorize them as non-Muslims and prohibitsthem from identifying asMuslims. There have beenriots in Muslim countries inwhich Ahmadis were killedfor their "heretic" beliefs.`

Rabbi Fired

After Arrest

The board ofWashington D.C. synagogueKesher Israel has fired itschief Rabbi, Barry Freundel,following his October arreston voyeurism charges. Therabbi is alleged to haveinstalled secret cameras inthe showroom of the mikvahadjacent to the Orthodoxshul. The board, which toldFreundel that he mustvacate his residence no laterthan January 1, 2015, saidthat “the alleged acts lead-ing t o th i s s t ep were a

gross violation of law, priva-cy, halakha and trust.”Freundel has also been sus-pended without pay fromhis position at TowsonUniversity, where he taughtin the philosophy and reli-gious studies department.

But the synagogue’sactions have not stopped alawsuit being filed againstit, the National CapitalMikvah, and GeorgetownUniversity. The law studentwho filed the lawsuit accus-es the rabbi of luring her tothe bath as part of her stud-ies at the school. She main-tains that Rabbi Freundelencouraged practice dunksand advised non-Jews andunmarried women and stu-dents to use the bath inorder to receive credit fortheir courses. The suitclaims that the “defendantsturned a blind eye to obvi-ous signs of Freundel’sincreasingly bizarre behav-iour, ignoring the bright redflags that Freundel was act-ing inappropriately withwomen subjected to hisauthority.”

Freundel’s nextcourt date is January 16th.He has pleaded not guiltybut if the courts find other-wise he could be sentencedto six successive year longterms.

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also played on Team Israel,and last year was withDetroit’s AAA team inToledo, will be invited tospring training with achance to make the bigleague club.

Other Jews are alsomaking plans for the 2015baseball season. JoshSatin, an infielder for theNew York Mets, and formermember of Team Israel, isnow a member of theCincinnati Reds. And IkeDavis has gone from thePittsburgh Pirates to theOakland Athletics.Finally, Gabe Kapler, acoach for Israel’s WBCteam, was named directorof player development forthe Los Angeles Dodgers.

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THE PROTECTION OF

settlers is a vital compo-

nent of Israel’s security.

Nowhere is the need for

vigilance greater than in

Hebron, where Hamas

operatives are constant-

ly planning terrorist

attacks. The above

photo was taken from

the Palestinian side of

Hebron and shows the

extent to which Israel

has gone to protect

Jews living well within

the range of fire.

The AmericanBaseball League DetroitTigers are managed by BradAusmus. Their star secondbaseman is Ian Kinsler.Now they have acquired athird Jewish ballplayer,Josh Zeid. Zeid was actual-ly a member of the 2012Israeli team that was skip-pered by his new Tigersmanager. And there mightyet be a fourth Jewish Tiger.Outfielder Ben Guez, who

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A Win For the

Anti BDS Movement

Several weeks ago,the East Midlands town ofLeicester agreed to boycottIsraeli goods. The LaborParty dominated council ofits western neighbourDudley appeared set to fol-low suit.

But pressure fromJewish community lead-ers and local Conservativecouncillors resulted in adramatic shift in policy.No boycott vote was takenand for the moment theissue is off the table.

Simon Johnson,the Jewish Leadershipcouncil’s chief executive,told Dudley’s Councillorsthat “the proposedmotion would have beenillegal, run contrary to the

mously passed a bill thatwould end Social Securitypayments to former Nazis.The No Social Security forNazis Act closed a loopholethat had allowed ex-Naziswho lied about their past tokeep their benefits, as longas they left voluntarily orsimply fled before they weredeported. Jakob Denzinger,a former guard atAuschwitz, who now lives inCroatia, has been receiving$1500 per month in SocialSecurity payments. So, too,have Peter Mueller, now liv-ing in Worms, Germany,Wasyl Lytwyn, now believedto in Ukraine and MartinHartman, thought to be liv-ing in Berlin.

Jewish groups wel-comed the bill and urgedthe Senate to pass a similarmeasure now under consid-eration. “Now that mostsuspected Nazi perpetratorshave been deported or havefled the U.S.”, said AbrahamFoxman, national directorof the Anti-DefamationLeague. “It’s time to focuson ending any possibleremaining federal benefitsbeing paid to them”.


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JEWISH AND ARAB STUDENTS AT THE MAX

Rayne Hand in Hand School for Bilingual

Education show their solidarity following the

November 29 arson attack in which the

school’s two first grade classrooms were set

on fire, causing extensive damage. Anti-

Arab graffiti was sprayed around the school.

The school is one of the Jerusalem

Foundation’s flagship projects. It has a pop-

ulation of 613 Arab and Jewish children,

from pre-kindergarten through to 12th grade.

The students study together in both Hebrew

and Arabic. On the first school day following

the attack children returned to school. Their

sign says “We’re all together, without fear

and hate”.

Independence Party coun-cillors on Dudley’s Councilplanned to oppose themotion. UK leader PaulBrothwood accused thelocal Labor party of “caringmore about the West Bankthan the West Midlands...Inreality this motion isunworkable, as the councilwould need to throw outmost computers, mostmodern phones, a quarterof NHS generic drugs andall their latest scanners”.

Patrick Hurley,leader of the town’sConservative councillors,believes that the motion“will now be kicked into thelong grass.” He does notthink Labor councillorQadar Zada or her col-leagues will be ”stupidenough” to bring it backanytime soon. And if theydo, Hurley says,Conservative councillorswill again lead the fight.

Interestingly, thelocal Labor MP, Ian Austin,has been one of Israel’sstaunchest defenders in theHouse of Commons.

These are not easytimes for the 2000 Jewsliving in the besieged cityof Lugansk, now under thecontrol of pro-Russianrebels. Several hundredJews recently lined up forseveral hours in freezingtemperatures to receive aidpackages. “That so manycame despite the cold”,said Shalom Gopin, thecommunity’s rabbi andChabad emissary, “illus-trates the growing need forassistance in a beleagueredcommunity...Winter is onlyworsening the situation ofpeople who are alreadyfinding it increasingly diffi-cult to scrape a living in awar-ravaged place withintermittent electricity.”The fact that there wasshoving and shoutingamong those standing inline, something unheard offor the Jewish community,indicates just how desper-ate people are.

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fighting the town’s syna-gogue has remained openbut it will be difficult to doso as the harshness of win-ter sets in. And yet someLugansk Jews are actually

returning home after fleeingfor refugee camps earlier inthe year. “They had enoughof living like refugees”, saysGopin, “so they decided totake their chances.”

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