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Administration Unveils Middle East Peace Plan With Two-State

Solution, Tunnel Connecting West Bank and Gaza

by ANDREW O’REILLY And JOHN ROBERTS

President Trump on Tuesday called for a two-state solution

to resolve the Israeli-Palestin-ian conflict, as he unveiled the details of his administration’s

Facebook Will Not Restrict Political Lies Ahead of Israel’s March Election

by OMER KABIRFacebook does not intend to

fact-check statements made by Israeli politicians nor take ac-tion to limit the spread of lies told by candidates ahead of the March election, according to Jessica Zucker, product policy manager at Facebook. Face-book’s job is not to censure politicians, Zucker said Monday during a meeting with Israeli journalists, held at the compa-ny’s Tel Aviv offices. Censuring political discourse will limit people’s ability to be exposed to what politicians say, and it will also reduce politicians’ respon-

sibility for their statements, she said. The issue elicited exten-sive discussion, Zucker said.

Ultimately, Facebook believes that fact-checking politicians’

Even Though Anti-Semitism Is Rising, We Can Still Appreciate How Far the

Acceptance of Jews Has Come in Americaby RABBI LEVI SHEMTOV

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Early Friday afternoon, I received a call inviting me to the White House to participate in a same-day signing ceremony for legis-lation authorizing $375 million in Homeland Security grants to help protect synagogues, churches, mosques and other places of worship. I replied that while I would love to attend, the late-afternoon timing was going to be dangerously close to the start of Shabbat.

About an hour later, the White House called back: It had reviewed the timing and the event would end earlier than it had thought.

So I accepted, with the explic-it understanding that it would not be seen as disrespectful if I and a small number of other

Jewish leaders needed to dis-creetly depart if the event was delayed for any reason — even if that meant leaving before the conclusion of President Trump’s remarks. The White

House agreed.Upon arriving, I was advised

that the president might ask me to say a few words after he signed the bill, if time re-

Rabbi Levi Shemtov attends a ceremony posthumously awarding Raoul Wal-lenberg with the Congressional Gold Medal in honor of his heroism during the Holocaust, at the U.S. Capitol, July 9, 2014. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Hate Violence Is on the Rise In America — but Anti-Semitic

Attitudes Are Not, ADL Poll Says

by BEN SALES(JTA) — Despite a rise in an-

ti-Semitic violence in recent years, the proportion of Amer-icans holding “intensely” an-ti-Semitic views remains small,

Participants holding a sign at the rally. Thousands of New Yorkers of all back-grounds joined community leaders and city and statewide elected officials in Foley Square at the No Hate. No Fear. solidarity march in unity against the rise of anti-Semitism. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump’s Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 28. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

ISIS Spokesman Declares War on Israel, Says Jihad Has Entered ‘New Phase’

Islamic State spokesman Abu Hamza al-Qurashi stated in a speech published by the ter-ror group’s media arm Al-Fur-qan on Monday that ISIS was “declaring war” on Israel, and called on ISIS branches in Sinai and Syria to attack it.

In the 37-minute speech, which was distributed on so-cial media, including Telegram and Hoop, the ISIS spokesman said the terror group was not only surviving, despite the dec-

The Islamic State flag. (Wikimedia Commons)

Facebook product policy manager Jessica Zucker. (Tomer Poltin)

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Israel Reveals Major Upgrade to Iron Dome

by YOAV ZITUNThe Israel Missile Defense

Organization (IMDO) of the Di-rectorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) an-nounced on Sunday it has con-ducted a series of successful tri-als in southern Israel designed to test a new upgrade to the Iron Dome missile defense system.

The IMDO, which oversees the development and produc-tion of multi-layered active defense init iat ives against high-trajectory rocket and mis-sile threats, had revealed this significant advancement in Is-rael’s defensive capabilities less than a week after the Defense

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Deborah Gordon Appointed to National Role with Jewish Federations

The Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester is pleased to announce that Deborah “Deb-bie” Gordon has been appointed to the board of directors of Na-tional Women’s Philanthropy of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA).

This national volunteer ap-pointment follows substantial leadership on Debbie’s part at the local level. She currently serves as chair of the Lion of Judah and the Lion of Judah Endowment program on the Women’s Philanthropy Exec-utive Council of the Rochester Jewish Federation. Debbie has also participated in several national missions to Israel and the International Lion of

Judah Conferences.“Debbie is passionate, gener-

ous, and has a deep love for her Jewish community,” said Mere-dith Dragon, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester. “She is a valued leader in the Jewish community and she will make important contributions on the national level. She will also have the opportunity to represent Rochester and our needs, which will benefit us as a community.”

Debbie is an active member of Temple B’rith Kodesh, the Louis S. Wolk JCC of Greater Rochester, Miriam’s Circle of the Jewish Senior Life Founda-tion, Advisory Council of the Jewish Family Service of Roch-ester and the Women’s Giving Circle of the Sarasota-Manatee, Florida Jewish Federation. In addition Debbie is an avid sup-porter of the Rochester Philhar-monic Orchestra.

Debbie Gordon will follow in the footsteps of other com-mitted Rochester Federation leaders, including Mona Fried-man Kolko and Leslie Crane, with this appointment to the

National Women’s Philanthro-py board. JFNA represents 146 Jewish Federations and over 300 network communi-ties, which raise and distribute more than $3 billion annually and through planned giving and endowment programs to support social welfare, so-cial services and educational needs.

Debbie and her husband, Michael Gordon, reside in Brighton and are proud par-ents and grandparents. b

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Palestinian Authority Gave 517.4 Million Shekels to

Terrorists as Salaries in 2019

According to recently pub-lished Palestinian Authority financial reports, a new report by the Palestinian Media Watch has found that the PA has ad-mitted to spending no less than 517.4 million shekels ($149.7 million) paying salaries to ter-rorist prisoners and released prisoners in 2019.

The PA expenditure on al-lowances to wounded terrorists and the families of dead terror-ists was at least 151.6 million shekels in 2019. Accordingly, the total minimum PA expendi-ture in 2019 on its payments to terrorists and families of dead terrorists — part of what Israel has dubbed the PA’s “Pay-for-Slay” policy — was 669 million shekels ($193.6 million).

In accordance with the Israeli law, Defense Minister Naftali Bennet should present the Na-

tional Security Cabinet with a report showing that the PA ex-penditure on its “Pay-for-Slay” policy was no less than 669 million shekels.

Israeli law demands that this figure be deducted from the monthly tax transfers Israel makes to the PA.

Background Since created in 1994, the PA

has implemented a “Pay-for-Slay” policy according to which it pays millions of shekels/dol-lars/euro every year in monthly salaries to reward Palestinian terrorist prisoners and released prisoners and monthly allow-ances to reward wounded ter-rorists and the families of dead terrorists (so-called “Martyrs”).

The PA codified the policy in the Law of Prisoners and Re-

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Israel’s Olympic Baseball Team Preps for Tokyo and Looks to Expand the Sport

by HILLEL KUTTLERMISGAV, Israel (JTA) — As

more than 20 men wearing blue-and-white baseball uniforms walked along Tel Aviv’s bustling Allenby Street on a recent Tues-day, a motorcyclist called out in Hebrew and English.

“Good luck! We’re behind you!” the man shouted to the group, members of the baseball team that will represent Israel at next summer’s Olympics in Tokyo.

The biker’s support “was meaningful to us,” said Jon Moscot, a pitcher. “It was au-thentic. He wanted to give us encouragement.”

Moscot recalled the scene two days later at a sports center here in the mountains east of Haifa, where the team was conducting baseball drills for nearly 200 children. It was one of several events organized during the club’s week-long visit to Israel meant to grow the sport in a country where baseball is barely known. With the Olympics just six months away, the team’s visit seemed to offer great public relations potential.

The delegation consisted pri-marily of American Jews who flew in from the United States after acquiring Israeli citizen-ship that enabled them to repre-sent Israel in the Olympics. They included former major-league players like Moscot, Ty Kelly, Danny Valencia, Zack Weiss and Jeremy Bleich. Former big leaguers Josh Zeid and Ryan Lavarnway, who didn’t make the trip, also became citizens and are vying for roster spots.

The Olympics squad is Israel’s first-ever in baseball and only the fourth in any team sport — winter or summer. Israel hasn’t had a team make the cut since soccer at the 1976 Games in Montreal.

The team’s success in four Eu-ropean tournaments last sum-mer catapulted it to the Olym-pics and is prompting loftier aspirations. Israel Association of Baseball president Peter Kurz told reporters in Tel Aviv at a press conference Jan. 13 that

he’s aiming to earn a medal in Tokyo.

With just six teams compet-ing, it’s not an unreasonable goal. But team manager Eric Holtz pledged only that his players would compete hard throughout.

“Every time this team gets on the field, it has a chance to do great things,” said Holtz, a New Yorker who managed the American juniors to gold at the 2017 Maccabiah games.

Kurz and Holtz expressed hope that the team’s Olympics debut spurs a doubling in the number of Israeli youth and adults playing baseball, from 1,000 to 2,000, over the next two years.

Accommodating such growth would necessitate building far more baseball fields than the three existing now: at Tel Aviv’s Sportek; at the Baptist Village complex in Petach Tikvah; and at Kibbutz Gezer, about midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. This month’s delegation attend-ed groundbreaking ceremonies

for new fields in Raanana and Beit Shemesh.

No one harbors i l lusions about baseball upsetting the country’s sports order. Even Is-raeli President Reuven Rivlin, at a welcome he hosted for the team, said it’s “not a secret that I prefer soccer.”

Still, the run-up to the Olym-pics provides key exposure for the sport. Gilad Lustig, director general of the Olympic Com-mittee of Israel, said that the country will send 85 athletes to Tokyo — its largest-ever con-tingent.

“I have no doubt that this group will represent us well,” he said of the baseballers.

Infielder Zach Penprase said that compared to his first visit to Israel in April, Israelis have a heightened awareness of the baseball team. Some Israelis he met told him they had watched the European tournaments on-line.

“I think it’s amazing,” said Penprase, a Los Angeles-area resident. “It’s why we’re doing this.”

Moscot, a fellow Southern Californian who has visited the country three times as a team member, said he has noticed “more and more passion” for baseball among Israelis.

“These are the people who give us that extra push, that extra incentive, to do well for the country,” he said. “This is for sure a different trip, because the kids have Olympic athletes to look up to. It’s been very re-deeming for us to see how pas-sionate these kids are and how much potential there is in this.”

Moscot gestured toward the children gathering near his

teammates to begin drills.“You can see it in their eyes,”

he said. “The parents want them to be here, and the kids want to be here. They genuinely want to learn.”

One such family included Yoav Nov-Kolodny, 11, and his brother Yoni, 8. The boys gravi-tated to baseball three years ago during a sabbatical in Boston with their father Yuval Nov, a statistician. Since returning to Israel, Yoav has taught the game to his friends using just a bat, two baseballs and three gloves he brought back from America.

His chums soon ordered their own equipment, expanding the circle’s ballplaying possibilities.

“We play three to five times a week. It’s so fun to play,” said Yoav.

Watching his sons take in-struction from the soon-to-be Olympians, Nov recalled playing basketball and soccer on the same surface three decades ago while attending the adjacent high school. Nov knew noth-ing about baseball then – still doesn’t, he confessed – and said he would have considered the idea of Israel fielding a baseball team “far-fetched.”

Now, he said, “What else can you wish to bring your son to but [to meet] Olympic athletes if he’s into baseball?”

As to the boys’ desire to regis-ter to play on IAB teams, which would necessitate a one-hour, round-trip drive here from their home in Kiryat Tivon, Nov said, “I may have unintentionally re-leased a genie.” b

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Mazel tov to Temple Sinai, which was honored at the re-cent URJ Biennial Convention held in Chicago in December. Temple Sinai was mentioned because of the work initiated by their Inclusion & Accessibility Committee.

according to a new poll.The poll, conducted by the Anti-Defa-

mation League and published Wednes-day, asked 11 questions of U.S. adults regarding traditional anti-Semitic stereo-types, using a protocol the organization developed more than 50 years ago.

While 61 percent of respondents said they agreed with one or more of the stereotypes, only 11 percent said they believed in a majority of them. That number is consistent with the ADL’s surveys over the past 25 years.

“Our research finds that this uptick [in anti-Semitic violence] is being caused not by a change in attitudes among most Americans,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in a statement. “Rather, more of the millions of Americans holding an-ti-Semitic views are feeling emboldened to act on their hate.”

The poll found that many Americans do believe in certain longstanding an-ti-Jewish stereotypes, even though few subscribed to most of the beliefs:

31 percent of American adults believe Jewish employers go out of their way to hire other Jews.

27 percent believe the Jews killed Jesus.

24 percent believe American Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the United States.

19 percent believe “Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in

the Holocaust.”The survey also found that large ma-

jorities of Americans have positive feel-ings toward Jews, and that a majority is very or somewhat concerned about violence against Jews.

69 percent said they feel warm toward Jews, while only 5 percent said they felt cold.

66 percent say “Jews have contributed much to the cultural life of America.”

79 percent say “Jews place a strong emphasis on the importance of family life.”

And the survey found that small per-centages of Americans hold anti-Israel views:

8 percent of Americans support a boy-cott of Israel.

7 percent believe American Jews are responsible for Israel’s actions.

14 percent of Americans say Israel’s government “sometimes behaves as badly as the Nazis.”

16 percent say Israel’s human rights record is worse than most other coun-tries’.

The survey interviewed 800 U.S. adults in October 2019, with a margin of error of 3.5 percent.

A 2019 ADL poll of 9,000 Europeans found that a quarter subscribed to most of the stereotypes — and that anti-Semitic attitudes are on the rise in several countries. b

After 38 years, Jewish Convict who Helped 1,500 Inmates Earn Degrees is Released From Prison

by ALIX WALLVACAVILLE, Calif. (J., The Jewish

News of Northern California via JTA) — James A. “Sneaky” White Jr., a Jewish inmate convicted of murder and impris-oned for nearly four decades, is now a free man. As he stepped out of prison on Jan. 21 to begin his life anew, his many supporters in the Jewish community were rejoicing with him.

Among them was Rabbi Mendel Kessler, a Chabad rabbi who worked as the Jewish chaplain at Ironwood State Prison in Riverside County, where White spent nearly two decades of his life-without-parole sentence.

“Many tried over the years with better connections” to get White released, said Kessler. “It was just what the Almighty wanted, at this time, in this way.”

White, who grew up in a mostly ko-sher Jewish home, ordered kosher meals in prison and wore a kippah while at Ironwood, gained supporters during his long incarceration by doing charitable work, initiating a college education pro-gram for inmates and starting a veterans organization. He also put effort into his own self-improvement.

Chabad Rabbi Yonason Denebeim, who was chaplain at Ironwood before Kessler, said in a 2018 interview that White had “a genuine concern about other inmates, and his desire to assist those who were willing to put in the ef-fort to improve the quality of their lives went far beyond the prison system.”

“I am truly grateful to the creator and all of his agents that have held fast and true in reaching this joyous day, Baruch HaShem,” Denebeim said.

White gave additional credit for his release to J., which published an article about him on March 22, 2018.

“None of this would have been possi-ble without the J.,” White said, his voice cracking, over his first non-prison meal in 38 years — a vegetarian omelet with an English muffin and tea at the Black Bear Diner in Vacaville, about a mile from the California Medical Facility where he had been incarcerated for the past two years because of his age (he’s approaching 80). “The article the J. did about me is what finally forced the gov-ernor to deal with my case.”

A few months after the J. piece was published, an investigator from then-Gov. Jerry Brown’s office visited White, and after a long interview told him that he’d be recommending parole. That Au-gust, a number of advocates — former inmates whom he had helped, fellow Vietnam vets and Kessler — spoke on his behalf before the parole board in Sacramento. White was approved for parole later that day. His case was for-warded to the state Supreme Court, and in December 2018 his sentence was commuted by Brown. (His release was delayed another year after a dis-trict attorney from Los Angeles County, where the crime was committed, argued against it but did not prevail.)

White was a highly decorated helicop-ter pilot in the Vietnam War, which is where he earned the nickname Sneaky, for sneaking through a field filled with landmines. He was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder when in 1980 he shot and killed the violent ex-husband of his wife, Nancy. White

said the man had threatened both of them and molested his own stepdaugh-ter. In 1981 White received his life sen-tence with no possibility of parole.

Resigned to that reality, he began community outreach programs, includ-ing a Vietnam veterans’ group while in San Quentin, one of several prisons where he spent time. At Ironwood, after reading a study about the recidivism rates for those who leave prison with a college degree, he convinced a warden to help him start the college program. At the time there was only one other pro-gram like it in the state, at San Quentin; now nearly every prison in California has adopted the format.

White also created a culture of charity in prison, convincing fellow inmates and guards to donate to local organizations. Over the years, he helped raise several hundred thousand dollars for everything from seeing-eye dogs for veterans to a local girls’ softball team, all through

in-prison fundraisers like walkathons and pizza sales.

“I’ve been on this case since 1982, working with nonprofit legal groups and law students through the ’80s and ’90s, into the new century, working alongside veterans who served with him, all of us trying to get Jim released,” added Shad Meshad, founder and director of the Los Angeles-based National Veterans Orga-nization. White “has long been a hero of mine for what he accomplished for oth-ers. This is just overwhelming for me.”

At breakfast with a group of friends that included three former inmates White had met inside prison (some of whom he hadn’t seen in 15 to 20 years) and this reporter, he commented on how heavy the silverware was — plas-tic sporks are used in prison — spoke on a cellphone and posed for selfies for the first time. Using the phrase “when I get out,” he immediately laughed and corrected himself. b

James “Sneaky” White Jr., moments after his release from prison, Jan. 21. (Alix Wall)

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1Tanach Study, at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 8 a.m. Followed by Torah study at 9:15. For more infor-mation, 244-7060 or [email protected].

Torah Study, at Temple Sinai, 9:15 a.m. More information, 381-6890

Chevra Torah Study, at Temple Emanu-El, 10 a.m. Rabbi Drorah Setel leads Chevra Torah study, an in-depth discussion of the weekly Torah portion that combines traditional commentaries with contemporary perspectives and the wisdom of our own experience. Free and open to the commu-nity — visitors and guests are warmly welcome. For more information, 266-1978.

Hit Makers Origins of Classic Rock, at JCC, 8 p.m. British Invasion pioneers The Who, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones, and bands like The Doors, The Doobie Brothers, and Led Zeppelin launched the genre known today as “Classic Rock.” An all-new show with dozens of classic hits. For more information, 461-2000.

Koresh Dance Company, at Nazareth College, 8 p.m. Exciting and emotional dance works that blend ballet, modern and jazz with rhythms drawn from Israeli folk roots. For more information, 389-2170 or artscenter.naz.edu.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2SUPER GOAL IV, at Foodlink, 9:30 a.m. Come join some of the biggest-hearted guys around before the kickoff. The winning team that completes a goal in the shortest time gets bragging rights and a prize. RSVP by January 28. For more information, [email protected].

Family Concert Series: Jason Mensches, at Temple B’rith Kodesh. More information, 244-7060 or [email protected].

Hit Makers Origins of Classic Rock, at JCC, 2 p.m. See February 1.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3Ohr Torah Open Torah Study, at Light of Israel Synagogue, 12 p.m. & 8 p.m. Study any topic of Torah you are interested in with a rabbi, either one on one or in small groups. For more Information, please call Rabbi Schon 845-825-9392 or email [email protected].

Bereavement Support Group, at JCC, 1 p.m. The Bereavement Support Group is for all members of the Rochester community who have recently experienced loss of a loved one. Free. For more information, 461-0110 or [email protected].

Talking Circles, at Partners in Restorative Initiatives, 1 p.m. Restorative practices make it possible for people to build relationships and to prevent and resolve problems when they occur. Talking Circles are a restorative approach that offers a space where people can communicate openly and honestly, listen deeply and build a sense of community. information, 241-8621 or [email protected].

Talking Circles, at Henrietta Public Library, 6 p.m.

Can’t We All Get Along?, at Nazareth College, 7 p.m. Guest Speaker: Dr. Carl Davila is the pro-fessor of History at State University of New York at Brockport with a specialization in Arab History, Classical Islam, Arabic Language and Culture.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4WXXI Reachout Radio reads The Jewish Ledger, 1 p.m. 258-0333.

Ein Yaakov, at Congregation Beth Hakneses Hachodosh, 8 p.m. An in depth study of stories from the Gemara taught by Rabbi Binyomin Sloviter.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5Ohr Torah Open Torah Study, at Light of Israel Synagogue, 12 p.m. & 8 p.m. See February 3.

JROC Band: A Jewish Community Teen Collaborative, at Temple Sinai, 6:30 p.m. Teens in 8th-12th Grades. Work with musicians Mike Miller & Leah Sherman. Choose your music, play with other teens and learn to lead. Vocals & Instrumental meet weekly on Wednesdays (dinner included). Perform 4 to 6x/year. For more information, [email protected].


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6Ellen Commissar, at Temple Beth El, 1 p.m. HAZAk, Beth El‘s Senior group, hosts Ellen Commissar, former journalist and previous chair of the Jewish Book Festival, who will present her knowledge-able and well researched analysis of current worldwide Anti-Semitism in the Post Pittsburg world. For more information, please contact [email protected].

Community Dinner, at MK Gandhi Institute For Nonviolence, 6 p.m. An opportunity to meet new people over a shared meal, to connect and exchange stories and ideas. All dishes are vegetarian with vegan and gluten-free options available. Free. For more information, 241-8621 or [email protected].


Talking Tachles With the ShinShinim, at JCC, 7 p.m. A series of 7 discussion sessions designed to introduce community members to the ShinShinim’s perspective on a variety of topics/issues relating to Israel and Israeli society. Information, [email protected].

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8Tanach Study, at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 8 a.m. See February 1.

Torah Study, at Temple Sinai, 9:15 a.m. More information, 381-6890

Chevra Torah Study, at Temple Emanu-El, 10 a.m. See February 1.

Hit Makers Origins of Classic Rock, at JCC, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. See February 1.

CALENDAR AT A GLANCE

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idents that it was finished, but also expanding its war against its enemies across the globe.

Al-Qurashi also called on Muslims to thwart the U.S. peace plan, known as the “deal of the century.” He urged Muslim fight-ers everywhere to step up their attacks, and to “emigrate” and join the nearest ISIS branch.

“The infidels,” he said, had mobilized “the turbans of evil” to “put out the light of Allah by their continuous military and media campaign against the monotheists, a total war on all fronts.”

The ISIS spokesman said the

group had begun “a new phase” in its war against its enemies.

“Today we have begun a new stage in our war against you. The eyes of the soldiers of the caliphate everywhere are still turned toward Bayt al-Maqdis [the Temple Mount in Jerusa-lem]. In the coming days, with Allah’s permission, there will be events that will cause you to forget the horrors you have seen during the time of the previous [ISIS] leaders … Our jihad shall continue. … We pray to Allah that He will torment you, take vengeance upon you and pun-ish you severely.” b

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West Bank Settlements Report Rapid Growth in 2019by JOSEF FEDERMAN

JERUSALEM (AP) — The pop-ulation of Jewish settlements in the West Bank surged by more than 3 percent in 2019, well above the growth rate of Israel’s overall population, a settler group said Tuesday. It predicted even higher growth this year thanks to a nascent building boom made possible by friendly policies of the Trump administration.

The data, released ahead of President Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace plan, indi-cate that evacuating settlements is no longer a viable option for international peacemakers, said Baruch Gordon, director of West Bank Jewish Population Stats.

“We’re here and we’re not going anywhere,” he said.

His group, using official Interi-or Ministry data, said the popu-lation of West Bank settlements

rose to 463,353 people as of Jan. 1, up 3.1 percent from 449,508 a year earlier. In comparison, Is-rael’s overall population rose 1.9 percent in 2019 to 9,136,000 peo-ple, according to official data.

The figures do not include an estimated 300,000 Jewish Israelis living in settlements in annexed east Jerusalem.

The Palestinians seek the West Bank and east Jerusalem — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — as parts of an independent Pales-tinian state.

“All settlements are illegal and the settler presence on Pal-estinian land is illegal,” said Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mah-moud Abbas. “This is a result of Israeli government policies.”

Israel annexed east Jerusalem and considers the entire city

to be its capital. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated that he will seek to annex large chunks of the West Bank after Trump’s peace plan is released later Tuesday.

The international community considers both territories to be occupied and all settlements illegal. But the Trump admin-istration, in a break from its predecessors and the rest of the world, has taken a much friend-lier approach and in November declared it does not consider settlements illegal.

One of the architects of the peace plan, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, is a for-mer president of Bet El Institu-tions, which sponsored Tuesday’s report. U.S. support for the set-tlements in the peace plan could give Israel the cover it needs to proceed with annexation plans.

According to Tuesday’s re-port, the growth rate of the settlement population last year actually dipped slightly from the 3.3 percent figure posted in 2018. But it still remained well ahead of the general popula-tion. The growth is driven in part by the relatively affordable housing prices found in the set-tlements, as well as the higher birthrate among their many religious families.

After a slowdown in settlement activity during the final years of the anti-settlement Obama ad-ministration, Israel has stepped up its plans for construction since Trump took office.

Both settlers and their critics call this the “Trump effect,” and predict a jump in construc-tion in the coming years.

According to the anti-settle-ment watchdog group Peace

Now, Israel in 2019 pushed forward plans to build 9,413 settlement homes, roughly the same levels as 2017 and 2018. The figures are more than triple the level of settlement planning during the final two years of the Obama administration.

It generally takes several years for settlement construc-tion to go through the planning process and win the necessary bureaucratic approvals. That means that actual construction should begin to take off this year, according to Peace Now.

“We haven’t real ly seen that yet,” said Brian Reeves, a spokesman for Peace Now. “2020 will see a spike in con-struction starts.”

“The numbers are exploding right now,” added Gordon. “That will be apparent in next year’s report and the year after that.” b

mained, and I should prepare something brief.

The event did end up running a little late, and ultimately there was no opportunity for any re-marks. Instead we were quickly escorted to the exit immediate-ly after the president signed the bill, so we could make our way home before the sun set. Indeed, it did so only a few minutes after I arrived home.

Thankfully, I have had a num-ber of opportunities to share my thoughts directly with the cur-rent president, as well as several of his predecessors. But those that went through my mind in the White House on Friday and

prepared to share might have a significant relevance to the events both current and ancient.

Jews around the world were preparing to read the Torah portion Vaera the following day, which recalls the visit by Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh to beg him to free the Jewish people from slavery. He arrogantly re-fused their entreaties, setting the stage for the plagues upon his nation and the Jewish Exo-dus that later followed.

In 1942, hundreds of American rabbis and Jewish leaders ar-rived in Washington, D.C., hop-ing to petition President Frank-lin Delano Roosevelt to help end

the Holocaust then raging in Europe. Like the Pharaoh of old, the president refused to see them or even hear their pleas.

Just 78 years later, the great-est power in the world invites American rabbis and Jewish leaders to participate in an event formalizing a broad new effort to help protect the free-dom of Jews to be safe and secure as we worship and serve our creator. It doesn’t stop there: The president and his staff accommodate the needs of invited Jewish representatives who choose to keep Shabbat (and kashrut) and do not cause them to violate those in order to be accorded that appropriate recognition and welcome. For this we are indeed grateful.

Those are thoughts I would have shared with the president, and intend to do so at the next opportunity.

This is a difficult time in our country, with anti-Semitic at-tacks spiking to perhaps histor-ic highs while the drama of im-peachment cleaves the country

along partisan lines. Still, there is a small bright spot present for us all, regardless of where we stand on the political spec-trum. (Personally, I try to stand in the most difficult place, the bipartisan center. It often feels that almost no one agrees with that position these days.)

Let us recognize and cher-ish the bright spot of being an American Jew today: We have an unprecedented ability to practice our faith freely, even as we face the difficult chal-lenges. Let us bear in mind that just as world leaders gathered in Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and honor the sacred memory of the 6 million who perished in the Holocaust, we must take note of how dramat-ically different our political sit-uation is in America today: We have unprecedented opportunity as Jews to participate fully in public life with respect accord-ed, literally at the highest levels, for our adherence to tradition.

We must honor memory, but

we must also do more. We must own our power as Jews to en-sure such a tragedy does not happen again. The living must ensure we carry forward the hopes and spirit of the lives so tragically lost. It takes real effort, but that is our awesome responsibility. As my mentor, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of blessed memory, taught us, one cannot just watch and remem-ber; one must do. And because of them, we must do more.

Perhaps it would be a power-ful initiative for every Jew today to do one more mitzvah just to honor one of those who perished and could no longer do so them-selves. After all, today’s leading powers are standing there ready to help us do so with more secu-rity and without having to com-promise who we are. We must use our freedom properly. b

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Say Barely Taught Them to Speak English

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Steinberg was born and raised barely an hour outside New York City, but well into adult-hood he could barely speak the language of his native country.

Raised in a mostly Hasidic community 50 miles northwest of Manhattan, Steinberg, now 43, attended schools where Yiddish was the primary lan-guage of instruction. Until age 12, he received only an hour of instruction in secular sub-jects each day. After that, the number dropped to zero. From early morning until late in the evening, he spent his time im-mersed in the study of Jewish texts.

When he went to enroll at a community college at the age of 37, he was told he had to take an English class aimed at new immigrants.

“I had a conversation with the person in charge and the first question she asked me [was], ‘When did you immi-grate? What year?’” Steinberg recalled. “And I tried to explain to her, I didn’t immigrate. I was born here.”

In Kiryas Joel, a village in Orange County, New York, where the majority of residents are Yiddish speakers affiliated with the Satmar Hasidic sect, he “learned almost nothing, even in basic English, basic math,” he said.

After deciding he no longer wanted to live a Hasidic life-style, Steinberg signed up for classes at Rockland Community College, which directed him to enroll in a remedial program to prepare him for college-level coursework. When he tried to take an introductory biology class, he found that he lacked even basic scientific knowledge.

“Almost every class had in-stances like that where I had a void where I couldn’t under-stand and needed to catch up because I was missing basic ed-ucation. And then I also found I had to study three times as long as the average student in

my class,” recalled Steinberg, who founded a support group for formerly haredi Jews called Freidom in 2012.

A new proposal by New York State’s Department of Education seeks to address the struggles faced by Steinberg and other graduates of haredi private schools. The new regulations would force yeshivas to en-sure that students receive a secular education that is at least as good as that which public schools provide.

In theory, yeshivas are sup-posed to be doing that already. New York state requires private schools to provide an education that is “substantially equiva-lent” to what public schools offer. Critics have long charged that many Orthodox schools fall well short of that standard, but their efforts to address the problem have been stymied by powerful Orthodox community members. Last year, state sen-ator Simcha Felder held up the passage of the state budget to stop New York from interfering in the curriculum at yeshivas. Felder is a rabbi and represents a heavily Orthodox district in Brooklyn.

The new proposal would put some regulatory muscle behind existing laws. They specify how many hours must be de-voted to each secular subject and require schools to provide additional instruction to stu-dents with limited knowledge of English. Schools that don’t comply risk losing crucial state funding.

The ideas were celebrated by many as a long overdue remedy to a glaring problem in Orthodox schools, but they also have their share of critics. After the Education Department first proposed the new rules in November 2018, lawsuits were filed on behalf of Orthodox ye-shivas, as well as Catholic and other independent schools in the state. Critics claimed the rules were too intrusive and impaired their ability to provide a quality religious education to

their students. “The large majority of Jewish

schools across New York state would have to make significant changes in their daily schedules and de-emphasize considerably the Jewish studies part of the day — and, in a certain sense, compromise the very mission that these schools were created to carry forward,” Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Zwiebel is the executive vice-president of the haredi umbrella group Agudath Israel of America and serves on the executive committee of Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools, an advocacy group created to resist efforts to impose more rigorous secular education standards on Ortho-dox schools.

According to Zwiebel, there are some 160,000 students studying at about 450 yeshiva schools in the state, and most of those schools would need to significantly alter their curric-ulum under the proposed reg-ulations. A better approach, he says, is to work with struggling schools individually to improve secular education.

“We have to work on those things and get them straight and do it on individual school-by-school basis rather than cre-ating a new aggressive over-sight structure that goes, as far as I’m aware, beyond that which exists in any other of the 50 states,” he said.

A similar f ight has been playing out in Israel, where attempts by the government to enforce general education standards on publicly-funded haredi schools were met with fierce pushback from commu-nity leaders and their political representatives. Some Ortho-dox schools in Israel receive exemptions that free them from having to provide core classes in math, science, English and other subjects. Only 12 percent of haredi students received ma-triculation certificates in the 2015-16 school year, far lower than the 77 percent of students who did so in secular and mod-ern Orthodox schools, accord-ing to a 2018 report by the Israel Democracy Institute.

As in Israel, some members of the haredi community in New York worry that the proposed regulations are part of a larger effort to change their way of life.

“The danger is that if you try to change one thing, it will not stop there. Tomorrow you will say that we need to change our dress code, the way of our beliefs, and so on,” said Volvi Einhorn, 28, a yeshiva graduate who now works at a design firm in Brooklyn.

Einhorn said that ultra-Or-thodox Jews can do well profes-sionally thanks to the support they receive from others in the community. But Steinberg says that still leaves many people working at jobs far below their potential and does nothing to help people who decide they don’t want to live a haredi life-style.

“What if I happen to not want to be part of the community anymore?” Steinberg said.

Under the proposed rules, pri-vate schools that don’t comply with the regulations would lose funding for textbooks, trans-portation and other state ser-vices. If schools don’t comply and parents continue to send their kids there, the parents could potentially face jail time. The Education Department held a public commenting period that ended in September and is currently considering whether to enact the proposal.

The proposed regulations stem from a 2015 complaint to New York City’s Education Department by former students of 39 Orthodox schools who al-leged that they had not received sufficient instruction in secular studies, particularly English.

The letter was organized by Young Advocates for Fair Education, or Yaffed, which advocates for improved edu-cation in Orthodox schools. Its founder, Naftuli Moster, grew up attending Hasidic yeshivas in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park and says he graduated barely being able to speak English.

“[The yeshivas] want to con-tinue doing what they’ve been doing, which in our view is mass educational neglect and depriving kids of an educa-tion, subjecting them to lives of poverty and dependence on government assistance,” Moster told JTA.

A 2017 report by his orga-nization claims that up to age 13, the average student at a boys’ Hasidic yeshiva receives only about six hours per week of instruction in secular stud-ies. After that, they receive no further secular education, the report claims.

The proposed regulations

would likely affect haredi boys more than girls. The communi-ty emphasizes religious studies for men and many women are expected to work while their husbands study in yeshivas, which means that girls gener-ally receive a more comprehen-sive secular education.

“We got the shorter end of the stick when it comes to Judaic studies, absolutely … but the boys definitely got the shorter end of stick when it comes to secular education,” said Frimet Goldberger, 34, who like Stein-berg grew up in Kiryas Joel but has since left the Satmar Ortho-dox community.

A journalist who has written about her experience growing up in a Hasidic community, Goldberger said women in such communities are expected to help their husbands with daily tasks that required communi-cating in English.

“I understood that I would get married and I would have to as-sist my husband when he went to the doctor,” said Goldberger.

Shulim Leifer, 34, graduated from yeshiva in Borough Park with better English skills than many of his classmates because his family spoke both English and Yiddish at home. Today Leifer manages several nursing homes, but he says his career prospects were severely limited because of the lack of secular education he received.

“We’re not starting off with the basic starting point that one would imagine is in a thriv-ing society,” he said. “We can’t decide in our teens that we’re going to be a doctor, or we’re going to be a lawyer, or we’re going to be an accountant or we’re going to be an astronaut, or anything really.”

Leifer dismissed arguments that the proposed regulations would hurt yeshivas’ abilities to teach Jewish subjects as “bla-tant fear mongering.”

“That is not true that there will be no space left for it,” he said. “It is simply an acknowledge-ment that what is being currently being taught for the kids is pre-paring them only for Jewish life and if they have no means they can’t even accomplish that, and that’s just not fair.” b

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Several senior executives from Facebook’s global opera-tions were present at the meet-ing, convened to present the different actions the company is taking to limit foreign in-terference and distribution of fake news during the upcoming election. One of the most con-troversial issues that came up during the meeting was Face-

book’s problematic policy of not limiting false statements by politicians as long as they adhere to community guide-lines, and of letting political figures spread fallacies via ads on Facebook.

According to Zucker, if a politician shares content that has already been checked and found to be false, his or her ability to spread it will be lim-ited, like it would be for anyone

else. The post will have a warn-ing that makes clear that the content is false and misleading, and a politician will not be able to add it to an ad, she said. But in the case of original content created by politicians, Face-book will not take any action to verify the content, limit its spread, or prevent it from being included in ads should it be found fictitious.

Guido Buelow, strategic part-ner development news EMEA at Facebook, took a stab at ex-plaining why the company has not gone the way of Twitter to forbid political ads altogether. Banning something complete-ly is much easier, he said, but Facebook wants to give peo-ple a voice; its platform is a strong tool for contenders and parties that don’t have access to traditional media and thus supports democracy. In April, ahead of Israel’s first bout of election, many new parties created pages, Buelow said — if they had no access to ads, they’d have no way to reach voters. But the company has invested much effort in creating transparency for political ads, he said, adding that drawing the line between what should be allowed and what should not in political ads is difficult.

According to Jordana Cutler, Facebook’s head of policy in Israel, the first election of 2019 demonstrated why political ads are needed, because small sums enabled parties and can-

didates to reach large crowds. Facebook is proud of this, she said, especially since the com-pany hardly makes money from those ads — around 0.5 percent of the company’s rev-enues. The criticism Facebook receives from countries, gov-ernments, and the press is not worth the money, she said, but Facebook is doing it be-cause the company wants to do something positive and enable open discourse.

Most of the meeting was dedicated to showcasing Face-book’s policy and guidelines for the upcoming election, with much of the focus centering on the fight against fake news. Fighting misleading informa-tion is one of Facebook’s main pillars, Zucker said; while the phenomenon is not new, what is new is how far that infor-mation can spread using Face-book, and the ramifications, she said. But while Facebook takes responsibility, it does not believe it is up to the company to decide what is right and what is not, and that is also why the company works with experts.

Facebook takes a threefold approach to the issue, Zucker said: removing certain content, limiting the spread of other con-tent, and presenting as much verified information as possible in the right context. The com-pany removes videos in which artificial intelligence was used to make it seem as though peo-

ple are saying things they did not, she said. The company also removes any misleading infor-mation about voting or partic-ipation in the election process, such as false information about the date, voting location, or eligibility. The company is also attempting to understand local nuances, aiming to identify supposedly innocent content that could incite real-world vi-olence, she said.

Fosco Riani, public policy associate manager EMEA at Facebook, said that only a small part of Facebook activi-ty violates guidelines. Of that, most violations are scams or spam intended to net monetary gain, he said. Only a fraction of scams are operations designed to sway public discourse or election results, but their po-tential impact means the com-pany must do whatever it can to restrict the activity of those users, he said.

According to Fosco, Face-book removed 50 networks of bots or fake accounts in 2019. These networks are not re-moved due to the content they create or distribute, but rather based on their behavior, he said. This means: do they hide their identity and make it seem like they are operated by peo-ple other than the actual oper-ators. Once they are removed, he said, Facebook works to de-velop products that will make their operation harder. b

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Preparing an Auschwitz Survivor for Her Final Resting Placeby DIANA BLETTER

While survivors and world leaders commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz last week, I attend-ed a very small, very private ceremony.

As a member of a hevra kadis-ha, or burial circle, I helped pre-pare and dress an Auschwitz survivor, Suzy Rosenberg, for her burial in a small village by the Mediterranean Sea in Isra-el’s Western Galilee.

Suzy was the mother of my next-door neighbor, Yehuda. She died on the anniversary of her her husband Mordechai’s death, thirty years ago. The day they both died was also their wedding anniversary.

Suzy moved to Shavei Zion in 1948, soon after she arrived after the Holocaust. The village began as a moshav shitufi, or agricultural collective, in 1938, on fields purchased from a Turk-ish landlord. It is situated about twelve miles south of the north-ern border with Lebanon. There are agricultural fields, avocado groves, horses and chickens. There is a cemetery by the wadi, the creek that flows into the sea.

There has never been a funer-al parlor here in Shavei Zion. In America, Jewish funerals can

mean big business. But here in Israel, it’s mostly voluntary. And since Shavei Zion’s found-ing, the male members of the village helped bury the men; women help bury the women. We receive the dead in a mod-est little house that sits in the middle of the cemetery.

Burial circle members are never paid. The act of preparing the dead for burial is consid-ered the purest kind of deed — the most benevolent, sacred gesture you can do for another. It is a task without compensa-tion, without acknowledgement because the dead can never thank you. In fact, the literal translation of the Hebrew term for burial society, hevra kadisha, is “holy society.” In fact, some participants never reveal them-selves because they want to do a good deed without public acknowledgement. You could call it Burial Circle Anonymous. I have been a part of the hevra kadisha since 1995, a few years after I moved here from New York. When I came here, most of the women in the hevra kadis-ha were getting on in years and needed help doing the physical work. Three other women and I did the tahara, or purification, for Suzy. It’s a small village —

a little more than a thousand residents — and we all knew her. We knew how the demons of her time in Auschwitz had trailed her and tormented her.

Before we began, we said a traditional prayer asking for help in performing this task with love with reverence. Then we began the tahara, or puri-fication. We sprinkled Suzy with water from head to toes. According to sources in the Kabbalah, the sanctifying water is poured over the body begin-ning on the right side, the side of mercy, and then on the left side, the side of judgment. It reminded me that mercy must come first.

We then patted her body dry, making sure to keep her cov-

ered, granting her complete modesty. We never passed any-thing over her body: the space above her is still considered her space. As if she was still alive. Still present. Still with us. We combed her hair to make her as beautiful as she could possibly be, one last time.

We then dressed her in shrouds made of simple, almost flax-colored linen. One of the women sprinkled some earth over her eyes to serve as a re-minder that we go from dust to dust. Then we covered her face with a head bonnet.

The pants came next, over-sized pants that reminded me of children’s footie pajamas. We had to bunch up the fabric and slide in her legs. There was a

jacket with a sash, without zip-pers or buttons, to make sure the soul can escape. And there were no pockets. Of course not. What could she take on this ultimate journey? Whatever had been denied her in the past was no longer necessary. After we finished, we recited another traditional prayer, asking Suzy for forgiveness if we had unin-tentionally hurt her in any way. Then we prayed that she would tread with righteous feet in the Garden of Eden.

The tahara ritual has always moved me. I always step out of the burial house feeling more aware of my life, and all of life.

But this time, the ritual had even more significance because it was happening on the very day that Auschwitz was liberat-ed. Today, we granted Suzy her right to a Jewish burial, some-thing denied her family and all those murdered in Auschwitz.

Today, the four of us in the burial circle stood around Suzy for another moment. We bid a loving farewell to one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in our village.

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much-awaited Middle East peace plan.

Trump announced the pro-posal alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya-hu during remarks in the East Room of the White House.

“My vision presents a win-win situation for both sides,” Trump said. “Today Israel has taken a giant step toward peace.”

He later tweeted a map of the proposed State of Palestine.

While Trump and Netanyahu praised the plan as a way to-ward ending the decades-long conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, odds of the peace plan taking shape are long given that the Palestinians have preemptively rejected the plan.

“This is a great deal,” Trump said. “And the Palestinians may not have this opportunity ever again.”

Trump acknowledged he’s setting out toward a goal that has eluded every U.S. president in modern times but claimed those prior efforts were too vague and short on critical de-tails. Trump declared his plan is “the most detailed proposal ever put forward.”

“All prior administrations from President Lyndon John-son have tried and failed,” Trump said. “In the past, even the most well-intentioned plans were light on details.”

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ing tougher than this one, we have an obligation to humanity to get it done.”

Netanyahu, who faces a tough re-election in March amid a corruption scandal, used his time on the dais to praise Trump’s plan and how it benefited Israeli sovereignty and security. The Israeli lead-er added that past deals had not had the “right balance be-tween Israeli security and Pal-estinians aspirations.”

“You have charted a brilliant future for Israelis and Palestin-ians toward a lasting peace,” he said. “For decades that peace has proved elusive.”

He added: “It’s a great plan for Israel, it’s a great plan for peace.”

White House officials de-scribed the plan as realistic and said Israel is prepared to act. According to White House officials, the plan calls for a two-state solution including the state of Israel and the “fu-ture” state of Palestine. Under the plan, the Palestinians would have to reach certain bench-marks to achieve a state. Those benchmarks include rooting out terrorism, stopping what they call “pay to slay,” implementing steps toward free speech, and other political reforms.

The plan is a basis for ne-gotiations with Israel, Trump officials said, claiming many of the Palestinians’ red lines are met, including their calls for a

Palestinian state and a capital in parts of East Jerusalem.

The vision calls for more than doubling the amount of territo-ry the Palestinians control.

“This plan will double Pal-estinian territory and set the capital of the Palestinian state in eastern Jerusalem where the United States will happily open an embassy,” Trump said. “Our vision will end the cycle of Pal-estinian dependence on charity and foreign aid.”

The plan also includes a map of a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank, with a proposed tunnel to connect the West Bank and Gaza Strip. There would also be land swaps south of Gaza to give the Pales-tinians more territory.

This is the first time Isra-el has agreed to a Palestinian state with defined borders.

A small strip of land between the Egyptian border and the proposed land swap areas south of Gaza would remain Israeli territory and be subject to Is-raeli security control. This was requested by Egypt as a buffer against cross-border terrorism.

As part of the plan, Israel has agreed to halt settlement construction for four years. But in one detail sure to provoke Palestinian objections, the plan recognizes Israeli sovereignty over major settlement blocs in the West Bank.

The plan calls for a demil-itarized Palestinian state. Is-rael would maintain overall security, though it does create programs for the Palestinians to show the capability to secure their areas, including a local police force. The more the Pal-estinians show they can secure their areas and cooperate with Israel, the less Israel will have to do in terms of maintaining security, officials said.

Israel would maintain sover-

eignty of the Jordan Valley east of the West Bank, according to the proposal. Israel would also maintain the security of the area.

There is a plan that over time, Palestinians would be able to achieve some civil sovereignty in the Jordan Valley, like farm-ing, officials said.

While the Palestinians have been negative toward the plan, White House off icials said Trump believes they will begin to move toward it.

Both Netanyahu and his po-litical challenger, Benny Gantz, have agreed to implement this plan, regardless of the outcome of the upcoming March 2 elec-tion.

The officials portrayed the plan as Israel agreeing to mas-sive concessions without jeop-ardizing its security, amount-ing to a serious good-faith effort that Israel has agreed to negoti-ate. The officials said the plan is realistic and Israel is pre-pared to follow through with it.

They also argue that the Trump administration’s moves to relocate the embassy and recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan were important

confidence-building measures that led to this plan.

The Palestinians, though, re-fuse to even speak to Trump, saying he’s biased in favor of Israel, and they are calling on Arab representatives to reject the Tuesday event at the White House. While Trump and Net-anyahu were giving their com-ments, Palestinian leaders were meeting in the West Bank to discuss the plan.

The Palestinian leadership also has encouraged protests in the West Bank, raising fears that the announcement in Washington could spark a new round of violence. Ahead of the announcement, the Israeli military said it was reinforcing infantry troops along the Jor-dan Valley.

Hamas, the Pa lest in ian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist militant organization that has waged war with Israel for de-cades, rejected the plan and called it a “theatrical presenta-tion to sell illusions” in a com-ment to Fox News. b

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Holocaust Drawingsby ANYA ULINICH

What are we looking at when we look at drawings?

The art critic John Berger said that drawing was like dis-covery. “Each mark you make on paper is a stepping stone from which you proceed to the next, until you have crossed your subject as though it were a river.” In other words, drawing is a close reading of reality — external or internal, present or remembered.

I was thinking of this when I went to see “Rendering Wit-ness: Holocaust-Era Art as Testimony” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a show of 21 small works most of which are drawings, and most of which were made by Jews imprisoned by the Nazis — either during their imprisonment, or shortly after liberation. I asked the ex-hibit’s curator, Michael Morris, what made him decide to put together an art show in the context of a history museum. He said that art reveals history differently from other artifacts. Most photographs of the Holo-caust were made by Nazis and their collaborators, reducing the prisoners to a collective. In conveying the perspectives of individual survivors, the draw-ings reassert their humanity.

Offering a platform sole-ly to survivors and excluding artifacts made by the perpe-trators certainly seems like a righteous curatorial move, and here, it has resulted in a small yet powerful show. The draw-ings, most made clandestinely, vary in quality, style and intent. Some are made by profession-al artists, some by self-taught ones, and two are made by a child. But all of them certainly transcend documentation, con-veying a remarkable diversity of artistic voices.

Of all the artists in the show, Alfred Kantor seems most con-cerned with remembering and reporting. Kantor studied ad-vertising art in Prague before he was deported to Terezin, and later, to Auschwitz. Al-though he continued making work during his imprisonment, Kantor destroyed most of it. Then, in 1945, while living in Deggendorf Displaced Person’s Camp, he began to draw again, meticulously detailing his war-time experience. Three of his drawings of Auschwitz are dis-played here. They are physical-ly tiny, but they’re crammed with visual information and captioned in two languages. “The drawings came rapidly but the captions were a prob-lem.” Kantor said in 1971. “I started to write them in my native Czech, but then realized that few people would under-stand them in America, where I would be living in a matter of months.” Typewritten English translations are pasted into the drawings beneath the hand-written Czech captions, paper layers physically representing seemingly irreconcilable parts

of the artist’s life.“Irreconcilable” is also a word

that came to mind when I was looking at the drawings of Peter Loewenstein. “Railroad Con-nection Terezin-Bohusovice,” a washy watercolor streetscape, and “Eight Men in Coats with Stars,” a dark, scratchy ink drawing, look as if they were made by two different artists. An engineering student from Prague, Loewenstein made drawings for Terezin’s techni-cal department, which gave him access to art supplies. Unlike Kantor, Lowenstein died in Aus-chwitz, and his drawings must speak for themselves. Was the pretty watercolor of the railroad a job assignment? Or did the artist know that the railroad connection had been built to ac-celerate deportations, and chose the soft painterly style to create a sense of foreboding by con-trast? There is no such ambigu-ity in the frankly expressionist “Eight Men in Coats with Stars.” The men huddle together in con-versation. This is a night scene, and the figures appear to be lit by street lamp — their angular faces are shadowed, with only a

few details sharply articulated by the light. The darkness is built of dense cross-hatching strokes that seem to vibrate with urgency and tension: it’s clear that these people have gath-ered at great peril to themselves and don’t have much time. The dates of the drawings appear to account for the differences in their mood and style: “Railroad Connection” was made in 1943; “Eight Men,” in 1944, perhaps after Lowenstein had learned of his impending deportation to Auschwitz.

Before his imprisonment in Terezin, Joseph Eduard Adolf Spier was a well-known Dutch cartoonist, and his drawings are perhaps the most aestheti-cally self-conscious in the show. Almost miniature, perfectly composed, with pale watercolor washes over delicate contours, they have the quality of picture book illustrations. One depicts an interior. At first glance, the room appears almost cozy, but as you examine it object-by-ob-ject — a triple bunk bed with bundles hanging from its posts; a coat with a yellow star hung up in the corner; a row of pails on a window sill; packed suit-cases — you realize that it’s a picture of life in upheaval. The white rectangle of the sky out-side the window dominates the drawing, and in the center of the white space, flies a black SS flag — the darkest tonal point in the picture. Although in some ways the drawing is very realistic, both the yellow star and the black flag are out-of-scale: just slightly exaggerated in size, uncanny, incongruous.

Next to Spier’s highly delib-erate, subtly chilling drawing, hangs a very different interior by the twelve-year-old Helga Weissova. “Children’s Home L410” depicts bunks and suit-

cases too, but unlike Spier’s, Weissova’s room is full of life and color. Three kids are sit-ting on the bunks, and a girl in a pink blouse is climbing a ladder. There is an immediacy here, and a lack of verdict and judgment. Weissova survived the Holocaust and went on to be an artist in Prague, but the drawings in this show are es-pecially fascinating because they depict ghetto life from a limited, and perhaps more hopeful perspective — even in the harshest circumstances, no twelve-year-old is really in touch with their mortality. In a drawing that depicts a de-portation, the two deportees march off the paper’s edge; the young artist’s attention is on the crowd of people who’d come to say goodbye — those who, like Weissova and her family, are getting a reprieve.

Among the multiple perspec-tives in the exhibit, Marvin Halye’s is an outlier. A U.S. Army soldier, Halye partici-pated in the liberation of Nor-dhausen concentration camp. By the time Americans arrived at Nordhausen, they found just a few survivors and thousands of corpses. Halye, an accom-plished artist who always car-ried a set of paints, documented the shocking scenes in his mas-terful watercolors. Perhaps too masterful. Halye is an outside observer, looking in, and his paintings have a more remote quality than the drawings of imprisoned Europeans.

There are several portraits in the show. All portraits drawn from life are essentially of two people: the subject and the art-ist. The interaction between these participants lends the portrait its depth and subtext. In my opinion, the strongest

Eight Men in Coats With Stars: A 1944 drawing by Peter Lowenstein, perhaps after he had learned of his impending deportation to Auschwitz. (Museum of Jewish Heritage)

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drawing in the show is the larg-er of the two portraits Manci Anis drew of her fellow pris-oner Susan Weiss in the Soem-

merda slave labor camp. Susan Weiss sits erect, gazing forward — this is one of those portraits that seems to look at you no

matter where you are in the room. Yet, at the same time, Weiss’s gaze seems to be turned inward, her heavy-lidded eyes both expressive and withhold-ing. Her lips are pursed, yet she seems about to speak. Manci Anis didn’t merely draw a fig-ure of an exhausted prisoner — she created a portal into her subject’s infinitely rich interi-or world. Anis didn’t survive the Holocaust, but Weiss did, and so did this drawing. Weiss hid it under her mattress and underneath her prisoner uni-form. I imagine her taking it out whenever she could, looking at it, and thinking, “I am here.”

“What do we talk about when we talk about war? Anything except war, it can seem, when visual art is the language,” Peter Schjeldahl recently wrote, making exceptions for Goya and Picasso. I agree that most art about war doesn’t equal its subject. But another exception must be made — for people from inside the war, who draw to save themselves.

“Rendering Witness: Holo-caust-Era Art as Testimony” will be showing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through July 5. b© Forward, reprinted with authorization.

Anya Ulinich is the Forward’s contributing art critic.

Ministry unveiled a new revolu-tionary laser-based air defense system and a decade after Iron Dome’s first successful opera-tional testing.

However, the Defense Minis-try’s statement didn’t disclose any details about the nature of the upgrade.

“This successful series of tri-als constitutes an important milestone in the State of Israel’s operational defensive capabili-ties against existing and future threats,” read the statement. “These trials tested the system’s newly developed capacities in a host of scenarios simulating fu-ture threats that the system will face during a confrontation.”

Since Iron Dome’s first in-terception over the southern city of Ashkelon in April 2011, more than 2,400 successful in-

terceptions have been recorded, with an average success rate of 85 percent, mainly in southern Israel, but also in the north.

IMDO Director Moshe Patel said that the newly developed system, when delivered to the IDF, will enable the Air Force to deal with the foreseen threats in the region much better.

Head of the Missile Defense Systems Directorate in Rafa-el Advanced Defense Systems, Pini Yungman also praised the upgraded system, citing it as a major improvement to Israel’s defensive capabilities.

“We finished the trials with a 100 percent success rate. The system intercepted all the threats launched during the experiment. The State of Israel is more protected now.” b

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leased Prisoners in 2004. Since then, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has twice approved sub-stantial hikes in the monthly salaries paid by the PA to the terrorists (2006, 2010).

According to sworn testimo-ny given by a senior official on behalf of the PA, the PA pay-ments to the wounded terrorists and families of dead terrorists are not codified in PA law, but rather only stipulated in undis-closed internal documents.

While the PA policy has been widely condemned, with four countries (Canada, the US, Aus-tralia, and Holland) cutting off all direct aid to the PA until the policy is abolished, and while the PA continues to re-quest (and receive) consider-able amounts of foreign aid, the PA itself carries on squandering hundreds of millions of shek-els/dollars/euro on terrorist salaries every year, incentiviz-ing and rewarding Palestinian terrorists.

In 2018, Israel passed a law to combat the PA policy. Ac-cording to the law, at the end of each year, the Israeli Minister of Defense must submit a report to the National Security Cabinet detailing the PA expenditure on terrorist salaries and allow-ances in the passing year. Once the Cabinet approves the report, the PA expenditure in the pass-ing year is deducted in twelve equal parts from the taxes that Israel collects and transfers to

the PA in the coming year.The new Israeli law was first

implemented in February 2019, after PMW found that the PA had admitted to spending no less than 502 million shekels to pay the monthly salaries to the terrorist prisoners and released prisoners in 2018.

In response to the Israeli decision, Abbas positively de-cided to plunge the PA into a self-inflicted financial crisis by refusing to accept all the tax revenues from Israel, if Israel deducted any sum. Since the tax revenues account for almost half of the PA budget, rejecting their receipt had a substantial impact on the PA economy.

To overcome the crisis, the PA decided to temporarily cut salaries to the law abiding PA employees by 50% and to sus-pend referrals of Palestinians for medical treatment in Israeli hospitals. The PA also attempt-ed to hide its financial reports, until PMW highlighted these actions. However, at the same time, the PA doubled down on its commitment to pay the ter-rorist prisoners, continuing to pay them 100% of their sala-ries.

After 7 months, the PA finally capitulated and agreed to re-ceive the taxes that remained after the deduction.

Following an additional PMW report on the subject of the PA payments to the wounded and the families of the dead ter-

rorists, in late December 2019 the Israeli National Security Cabinet decided to deduct an additional sum of 150 million shekels. Since the number of wounded Palestinian terrorists and the number of Palestinian terrorists killed grew in 2019, it is reasonable to assume that the PA expenditure for these terrorists grew.

According to statistics pub-lished by the PA and Israeli NGO B’tselem, no fewer than 110 Palestinian terrorists were killed in 2019. Taking into account the different PA pay-ments, the additional expense incurred by the PA was no less than 1.6 million shekels.

During the presentation of his new Middle East peace plan, — the deal of the century — US President Donald Trump stressed the need for the PA to abolish its policy of rewarding terrorists and murderers:

“To ensure a successful Pal-estinian state, we are asking the Palestinians to meet the challenges of peaceful co-exis-tence. This includes adopting basic laws enshrining human rights; protecting against finan-cial and political corruption; stopping the malign activities of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other enemies of peace; ending the incitement of hatred against Israel — so important; and per-manently halting the financial compensation to terrorists.” b

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Most Wanted Female Terrorist Lives in Freedom in Jordan Despite Extradition

Request for Bombing That Killed Americansby HOLLIE MCKAY

Ahlam Ahmad al-Tamimi is the most wanted woman in the world, with a $5 million bounty for information that leads to her arrest or conviction.

Tamimi is accused by U.S. officials of conspiring to use — and using — a weapon of mass destruction, and masterminding a brazen Hamas terrorist attack that killed 15 — including eight children and two Americans, one of whom was pregnant.

Despite being on the run from American authorities, Tamimi has been hiding in plain sight for years — under the eye of one of the United States’ longest and closest allies in the Middle East: Jordan.

Despite requests from Wash-ington, the Kingdom has been publicly steadfast in its refusal to extradite Tamimi, who at just 20 years old masterminded the suicide bombing on the Sbar-ro pizza restaurant in Jerusa-lem three weeks before planes struck the U.S on Sept. 11, 2001.

The attack claimed the lives of two Americans, 15-year-old Malki Roth, and Shoshana Ye-hudit Greenbaum, who was five months pregnant with her first child at the time. In addition to the two murdered Ameri-cans and the unborn infant, four more U.S. nationals were among the some 122 injured. At least one of the victims remains in a vegetative state.

For Roth’s parents, the fight for some semblance of justice has already been a long one — and the bumpy road stretches on.

“We are in touch with mem-bers of Congress and U.S. gov-ernment officials. The situation is fluid, and there are some indi-

cations of meaningful progress,” Malki’s father, Arnold Roth, told Fox News from Jerusalem. “Our sense is that the law and en-forcement parts of the U.S. gov-ernment have done everything that needs to be done to set the stage. What is preventing extra-dition is the political will to see the Sbarro bomber brought to justice.”

Two years after the Jerusalem attack, Tamimi pled guilty in an Israeli court for her pivotal role and received 16 life sentences and an additional 250 years be-hind bars.

U.S. federal laws also came into play because Malki Roth, who was born in Australia, held American citizenship at the time.

In 2011, Tamimi was part of a prisoner swap in which Israel released more than 1000 Pal-estinian prisoners — many of whom were serving life sentenc-es for assaults on Israelis — for the return of one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Hamas four years earlier.

“It was important to Israelis to show the importance put on that one soldier’s life, and how much we were willing to sac-rifice to bring him home,” one Israeli intelligence official, who requested anonymity, told Fox News of the exchange.

Most of the Hamas operatives and sympathizers released were sent to Gaza and the West Bank. Tamimi and her husband were among a handful relocat-ed to neighboring Jordan, under varying terms of restriction.

But seemingly no one antici-pated the terrorist’s rise to pub-lic fame.

Tamimi, who is now 39, refers

to herself as a journalist and was purportedly given free rein to host her own program on a local TV station broadcast from the city of Ramallah, focused on “occupation practices.” More-over, she was left unencum-bered to bolster a heroic image, of which she has dedicated fan pages, which claim that she “holds a medal of honor” for her “life imprisonment in Zion prisons.”

Tamimi has also given sev-eral interviews detailing and illuminating her role, admitting that she selected the restau-rant because it was known to be a favorite for families, and expressing her delight that so many children were slain.

“I was really shocked at the American behavior,” Tamimi told an Al Jazeera reporter from her home in the Jordanian capi-tal of Amman in 2017, detailing how she was suddenly arrest-ed by a branch of Interpol and spent one night in jail before successfully fighting extradition through the Jordanian courts. “The U.S. government, who is always trying to solve the prob-lems of the world, has decided to go after one woman for no obvious reasons.”

Several employees of Al-Quds TV told Fox News that they are no longer operating. The dip-lomatic spotlight on the case — and the hefty bounty on her head — has prompted Tamimi to slide under the radar in recent months.

“She doesn’t appear on TV. The last time she popped up was March 2019,” noted Yotam Feldner, director of Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) TV. “Last time her Facebook was active was in 2011.”

Yet for the Roth family, the notion of their daughter’s killer living a life of freedom and open glee renders more than just a jar to the stomach.

“It is audacious that she was allowed to host a program solid-ly identified with her and what she embodies — unhindered for nearly five years. We are talking about a program that places terrorists on a pedestal,” conjec-tured Arnold Roth. “She has al-ways maintained a noisy social media presence. But that part of her noisy activity is currently in abeyance after we were instru-mental in getting Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to, one by one, shut down her known accounts.”

The U.S. government first filed under seal a criminal complaint against Tamimi in 2013. The criminal complaint was public-ly unsealed in March 2017. But almost three years later, and she still remains free.

The Jordanian government

has argued that Tamimi cannot be extradited on the grounds that there is no treaty with the U.S. While the late King Hus-sein, who died in 1999, is report-ed to have signed the extradition treaty on March 28, 1995, it was not signed into law by the Jor-danian parliament.

“Legally, Jordan’s parliament has to ratify a treaty, much the same way that the U.S. Congress has to ratify any treaty signed by the president in order for it to have the force of law,” explained Josh Lipowsky, a senior re-searcher at the Counter Extrem-ism Project (CEP). “Nonetheless, King Abdullah could choose to honor the extradition request as a goodwill gesture to the United States or if he believes it is in Jordan’s best interests.”

He stressed that even with-

out a formally ratified treaty, King Abdullah “can override the courts’ decision not to extradite Tamimi” and that it is “a matter of weighing potential damage to the U.S.-Jordan relationship versus the threat of upsetting some on the Jordanian street.”

“For now, the risk is low for King Abdullah to keep Tamimi in Jordan, but that could change if the United States were to threaten economic sanctions against Jordan,” Lipowsky con-tinued. “The passage of the Om-nibus Spending Bill in Decem-ber threatens to sever financial aid to any country that ignores a U.S. extradition request of some-body indicted for a criminal offense that carries a life sen-tence. Tamimi’s 2017 U.S. indict-ment carries the penalty of life

This image provided by the FBI is the most wanted poster for Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, a Jordanian woman charged in connection with a 2001 bombing of a Jerusalem pizza restaurant that killed 15 people and injured dozens of others. The case against Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi was filed under seal in 2013 but announced publicly by the Justice Department on March 14, 2017. (FBI via AP)

Malki was deeply devoted to caring for her disabled sister, Haya, prior to her murder in August 2001 (Roth Family)

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EFRAT, Israel — When your children will say to you, “What is this service to you?” You shall say, “It is the Passover service to G–d”

Why does the author of the Haggada call the questioner in this sequence “the wicked child”? The reason that the Haggada itself emphasizes lies in the questioner’s exclusion of himself from the family ritual when he asks, “What is this service to you?” The Haggada explains: “Saying ‘you,’ he excludes himself, and by doing so he denies a basic principle of our faith.” For a Jew, it is considered “wicked” to exclude oneself from the Jewish ritual-familial experiences.

Also, in this instance, the child doesn’t ask his parents anything; instead, he tells them: “...when your children shall say to you” (Ex. 12:26). An honest question reveals a willingness to learn, but the wicked child is not interested in answers — only in making statements.

How might we respond to such a child? The Bible itself gives one response: “It is the Passover service to G–d. He

passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt [when he slew the Egyptian firstborn] and He saved our homes” (Ex. 12:27); the author of the Hag-gada gives another: “You shall cause his teeth to be on edge, and say to him, ‘It is because of that which G–d did for me when I went out of Egypt’” (Ex.13:8).

Why the difference, and what is the specific message of each? The Netziv (Rabbi Naf-tali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin, 1817-1893) teaches that the wicked child’s statement reflects his belief that so many years after the original events there is no reason to retain such an old-fashioned and outmoded service. The biblical answer is that it is a Passover sacrifice to G–d, who saved our homes, and our families.

There are two central pil-lars in Judaism: family ties and Divine directions. Family has been an important Jewish value from the beginning of our history, when Abraham is told that he is distinguished and loved by G–d “so that he command his children and his family after him that they do righteousness and justice”

(Gen. 18:19). And when Pha-raoh’s servants agree to allow Moses to leave Egypt — but only with the males — Moses and Aaron respond, “We shall go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters” (Ex. 10:9). It’s a family affair.

Hence, the Bible tells this wicked child that the Passover sacrifice is a reminder of a Di-vine miracle that preserved the Jewish family. The Seder is precisely the kind of family ritual that is crucial for familial continuity.

The author of the Haggada cites a different verse: “When the Lord brings you to the land which He swore to your fathers to give to you... You shall tell your child on that day, saying, ‘It is because of this [ritual] that G–d did [miracles] for me when I went out of Egypt’” (Ex. 13:5-8).

The key words here are “did for me.” Passover teaches the two most important messag-es of Judaism: the inalienable right of every individual to be free and the injunction that we love the stranger because we were (unloved) strangers in Egypt. The continuity of the

generations and the familial celebrations of crucial histor-ical events demand that each Jew have the ability to trans-form past history into one’s own existential and personal memory. The initial biblical answer emphasizes the impor-tance of familial experiences for familial continuity; the au-thor of the Haggada adds that without incorporating past into present there can be neither meaningful present nor antici-pated future.

I am my past. Despite the fact that the wicked child has denied his roots, we dare not tear him out of the family. He may think that he wants to remove himself from historical continuity, but it’s the task of his family to remind him that this celebration is an indelible part of his existential identity, that he is celebrating his own personal liberation.

The Haggada instructs us to set the teeth of the wicked child on edge. The phrase in Hebrew is “hakheh et shinav.” It doesn’t say “hakeh”, which means to strike, to slap him in the teeth, but rather “hakheh,” from the language of the proph-et Ezekiel, “The fathers eat the

sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. (Ezek. 18:2). The prophet is expressing the fundamental unfairness in the fact that the parents have sinned but their children are the ones who must suffer the pain of exile. Indeed, children do suffer for the sins of their parents — always. Anyone who comes from a difficult or dys-functional home will bear the burden.

But just as the child has re-sponsibility to his past, the par-ent has responsibility to the future. Are we certain that the wicked child’s teeth are not set on edge because of the sour grapes that we, the parents, have eaten because we have not properly demonstrated the requisite love and passion for the beauty and the glory of our traditions? Have we been there to hear his questions when he was still ready to ask them and to listen to answers? Have we been the appropriate models for him to desire continuity within our family? The author of the Haggada subtly but forthrightly reminds both parents and chil-dren of their obligations to each other, to past and to future. b

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imprisonment or death, which means Jordanian aid could be threatened if her extradition is not carried out.”

Several sources in both the U.S. and Israel acknowledged that the extradition request does put the Hashemite Kingdom — a strong and necessary ally in the tumultuous region — in a difficult position given that an estimated 70 percent of those in Jordan are of Palestinian origin. Thus, King Abdullah needs to maintain popularity with the overwhelming majority both from a political and security standpoint.

Jordan has made extradition exceptions in years past. In 1995, Jordan allowed the U.S. to extract Eyad Ismoil, a Jordanian national, to stand trial over his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

The U.S. State Department de-clined to comment specifically on the Tamimi case, but on its website denotes that it “deeply values its long history of coop-eration and friendship with Jor-dan,” a diplomatic relationship that dates back to 1949.

“In light of ongoing regional unrest, the United States has helped Jordan maintain its sta-bility and prosperity through economic and military assis-tance and through close political cooperation,” the bilateral rela-tions fact sheet states.

The U.S. is Jordan’s single largest provider of assistance, “providing over $1.7 billion in

2017, including $1.3 billion in bilateral foreign assistance and over $200 million in Department of Defense support.”

Yet some critics have pointed to the notion that despite the huge sums of U.S. taxpayer dol-lars dished to Jordan, they still refuse to hand over Tamimi, who masterminded the death of an American child.

“The Kingdom freely takes American foreign aid, relies upon Washington to safeguard it militarily and claims they are a modern state that respects the rule of law. No one, not even Tamimi, denies her role in perpetrating these mass bomb-ings that killed and injured U.S. citizens,” contended Nitsana

Darshan-Leitner of the Israeli law firm Shurat HaDin, which represents some of the Sbar-ro bombing victims. “Just as the Trump administration is pressing every ally from Europe to Canada to NATO to start to fulfill obligations, Jordan must be forcefully pressed and com-pelled.”

According to the Israeli intel-ligence source, Tamimi is just one of many in a “well-known” family line accused of waging war in the bitter battle between Palestinians and Israelis.

Among the clan of cousins is said to be that of Ahed Tamimi, a 19-year-old Palestinian activist who has gained international notoriety in recent years for her

bold confrontations with Israeli soldiers. In late 2017, she was detained for slapping a soldier and subsequently spent seven months in prison, her signature curls and youthful face becom-ing a symbol for the proclaimed Palestinian “freedom fight.”

Last April, her younger broth-er, Mohammed Tamimi, then 15, was arrested along with their cousin Muayyid in overnight raids in response to “rioting and other disturbances.”

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice told Fox News that while they cannot discuss the next steps in terms of specifics regarding the extra-dition request, it remains a mat-ter of “particular importance.”

The Australian and Jordanian embassies in Washington, D.C. did not respond to requests for comment.

But for the Roth parents, it’s a nightmare they are compelled to fight through every day — and they are determined not to stop in their quest to see the woman who wears American blood on her hands have her day in U.S. court.

“Thinking about our precious Malki, looking at photos of her, even just hearing her name, is unspeakably painful even near-ly 20 years on,” said her mother, Frimet Roth. “I force myself to post pieces about her periodical-ly so she won’t be forgotten and so that the evil massacre that she perished in won’t be either.”

Frimet remembers everything about her daughter, who will forever be a smiling 15-year-old in her heart. Her talents as a classical flutist, her voluntary work caring for children with severe disabilities, including her sister, 10 years her junior.

“Malki’s love and devotion to Haya, our profoundly disabled child, was positively astound-ing. Malki also found time to be a loving daughter and grand-daughter as well. We often walked arm-in-arm together. She usually ended our phone conver-sations with ‘I love you,’ which I distinctly recall she did the last time we spoke,” Frimet added. “Just one hour before she was snatched from us forever.” b

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Legal Notices …

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 252 DAVID PARKWAY LLC

The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany is 252 DAVID PARKWAY LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on De-cember 17, 2019. The office of the Com-pany is located in the County of Monroe, State of New York. The New York Secre-tary of State is designated as the agent of the Company upon whom process in any action or proceeding against it may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any such process 616 Holt Road, Webster, New York 14580 The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be formed.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: A Girl Named Genny LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 19, 2019. New York office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: 300 Hemlock Trail, Webster, NY 14580. LLC is to be managed by one or more members. LLC is organized to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SCRE LENDING, LLC

SCRE LENDING, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 12/18/2019. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 91 Knollwood Drive, Rochester, NY 14618. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY OF CEA HOLDINGS I LLC

Name: CEA Holdings I LLC (LLC). Authority filed with NY Secretary of State (SSNY): 12/06/2019. LLC organized in Delaware: 12/04/2019. NY office loca-tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 1900 Bausch & Lomb Place, Rochester, NY, 14604. Address of office maintained in jurisdiction of for-mation: 1675 South State Street, Suite B, Dover, Delaware 19901. Copy of Certifi-cate of Formation on file with Delaware Secretary of State, 401 Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, Delaware 19901. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”)

Name: Foxy Enterprises LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State with the State of New York (“SSNY”) on: December 20, 2019. Office Location: County of: Monroe. Principal Business Location: 126 Daffodil Trail, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any and all lawful act or activity. The Secretary of State of the State of New York has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: 126 Daffodil Trail, Rochester, NY 14626

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF COORDINATED PLAN FP, LLC

Coordinated Plan FP, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 12/10/2019. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 221 Monteroy Road, Rochester, NY 14618. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LFS PANORAMA I LLC

LFS Panorama I LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 12/12/2019. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 1001 Lexington Avenue, Rochester, NY 14606. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.


Quatela Medical Spa, LLC filed Arti-cles of Organization with the NY Depart-ment of State on 12/19/19. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the

Company upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy shall be mailed to 973 East Avenue, Suite 100, Rochester, NY 14607. Its purpose is any lawful business.


TEAMSynergy Solutions, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY De-partment of State on 12/11/19. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy shall be mailed to 7 Chantilly Lane, Fairport, NY 14450. Its purpose is any lawful business.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONGL ANALYTICS LLC has filed Articles

of Organization with the Secretary of State on December 26, 2019. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 200, Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONDistinguished Real Estate LLC filed

Articles of Organization on 10/22/2019. The office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designat-ed as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any pro-cess will be mailed to Distinguished Real Estate LLC, 821 Avenue D Rochester, NY 14621. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”)

Name: La Rinnova Salon, LLC. Arti-cles of Organization filed with the Sec-retary of State with the State of New York (“SSNY”) on: January 1, 2020. Office Location: County of: Monroe. Principal Business Location: 496 Long Pond Road, Suite 2, Rochester, New York 14612. Pur-pose: any and all lawful act or activity. The Secretary of State of the State of New York has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: 496 Long Pond Road, Suite 2, Rochester, New York 14612

NOTICE OF FORMATIONWOOD N MUSIC LLC filed Articles of

Organization with the New York Depart-ment of State on 12/20/2019. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 18 Hillcrest Dr Penfield NY 14526. The purpose of the Company is Publishing.

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC) PRMR Enterprises LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (SSNY) on December 6, 2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designat-ed as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of process 200 Canal View Blvd., Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of limited liabil-ity company (LLC) KALC Holdings LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (SSNY) on December 18, 2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designat-ed as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of process 111 Commerce Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONPIRANHA TEC DRIVE LLC has filed Ar-

ticles of Organization with the Secretary of State on January 2, 2020. Its office is lo-cated in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, 590 Salt Road, Webster, New York 14580. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DANNIC TWO LLC

Dannic Two LLC filed Articles of Or-ganization with NYS on 12/30/2019. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of

any process will be mailed to the LLC, 278 Edgemere Drive, Rochester, NY 14612. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SSAC INVESTORS, LLC

SSAC Investors, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 12/31/2019. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 1900 Bausch & Lomb Place, Rochester, NY 14604. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATIONNotice of formation of limited lia-

bility company. Name: FSI DB LLC (the Company). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/19. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, 90 Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.


(1) Name: 4292 Lake Avenue LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on December 24, 2019. (3) Its office location is to be in Monroe County, State of NY. (4) The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 110 Radnor Lane, Rochester, New York 14617. (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.


Adiantum, LLC filed Articles of Or-ganization with the NY Department of State on 12/31/2019. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy shall be mailed to P.O. Box 447, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Its purpose is any lawful business.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of South Clinton

Housepitality, LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY October 3, 2019. Office location: 75 Marshal Street, Rochester, New York 14607 SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The Company 75 Marshall Street, Rochester, New York 14607 COUN-TY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of Dream Rich,

LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY October 18, 2019. Office location: 156 Donovan Street, Webster, New York SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Maurice Sinkler 156 Donovan Street, Webster, New York 14580 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any law-ful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of Veneto West-

side, LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY December 2, 2019. Office location: 45 North Plymouth Avenue, Rochester, New York 14614 SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Julie Swartz 45 North Plymouth Avenue, Rochester, New York 14614 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of Victor Victoria

Israel, LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY January 3, 2020. Office location: 2300 Buffalo Road, Building 100A, Roch-ester, New York 14624 SSNY is designated

agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The Company 2300 Buffalo Road, Building 100A, Rochester, New York 14624 COUNTY OF FORMA-TION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of LPU1213, LLC

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY January 3, 2020. Office location: 2300 Buffalo Road, Building 100A, Rochester, New York 14624 SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The Company 2300 Buffalo Road, Building 100A, Rochester, New York 14624 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.


(Under Section 206 of the Limited Li-ability Company Law) 1. The name of the limited liability company is Peerless Avenue Managing Member, LLC (the “Company”). 2. The Articles of Organiza-tion of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on January 8, 2020. 3. The office of the Company within the State of New York is in the County of Monroe. 4. The Secretary of State of the State of New York is hereby designated as agent of the Company for the purpose of service of process. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company ser-viced upon him or her is 1000 University Avenue, Suite 500, Rochester, New York 14607. 5. The character and purpose of the business of the Company shall be to act as managing member or general partner of an entity that will own real estate and any other purpose permitted by New York law.


The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany is Savastano’s Catering LLC. Arti-cles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 30, 2019. The office of the LLC

is located in Monroe County. The busi-ness street address is 6 Ann Marie Drive, Rochester, New York 14606. SSNY is desig-nated as the agent of the Company upon whom process in any action or proceeding against it may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any such process is 6 Ann Marie Drive, Rochester, New York 14606. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be formed.


The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany is SAV4 LLC. Articles of Organi-zation were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 17, 2019. The office of the LLC is located in Monroe County. The business street address is 477 Spencerport Road, Roch-ester, New York 14606. SSNY is designat-ed as the agent of the Company upon whom process in any action or proceeding against it may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any such process is 477 Spencer-port Road, Rochester, New York 14606. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be formed.


The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany is Savastano’s 1974 LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Sec-retary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 17, 2019. The office of the LLC is located in Monroe County. The business street address is 477 Spencerport Road, Rochester, New York 14606. SSNY is desig-nated as the agent of the Company upon whom process in any action or proceeding against it may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any such process is 477 Spencer-port Road, Rochester, New York 14606. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be formed.


As Holocaust Revisionism Grows in Europe, Israel Steps Up Commemorative Efforts

by CNAAN LIPHSHIZOSWIECIM, Poland (JTA) — Like

many Holocaust survivors, 93-year-old Rosa Bloch has visited Auschwitz sev-eral times for International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations.

Held in the dead of the Polish winter on Jan. 27, the day the Soviet Union liberated the former Nazi death camp in 1945, the annual ceremony offers participants an inkling of the hardships endured here by inmates struggling to survive with only pajama-thin uniforms.

Attending “certainly has a certain effect, and I recommend it,” said Bloch, a Lithuania native who now lives in Israel.

But while Bloch recognizes Aus-chwitz’s unique power, she decided to commemorate the liberation this year in Jerusalem, where she was joined last week by dozens of heads of state and other survivors at a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum. The event, described as the largest diplomat-ic gathering in Israel’s history, arguably overshadowed a commemoration held Monday at the site of the concentration camp in southern Poland.

“I was moved beyond words to do it not in Europe, but in our own Jerusa-lem, in our country,” Bloch said.

Israel’s preeminence in the commem-oration this year of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is reignit-ing a decades-long debate over whether Europe or Israel is the most appropriate venue to host Holocaust remembrance events.

The tension was on full display last week as Israel hosted the World Holo-caust Forum, an event funded by Euro-pean Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor and organized in partnership with the Israeli government and Yad Vashem.

The run-up to the event was domi-nated by Polish President Andrzej Du-da’s decision to boycott amid a dispute over being denied a speaking slot — a decision he followed up with a speech to Polish Jewish leaders asserting that Poland was the rightful place to hold such a gathering. (An Israeli official said later that Duda had been offered “some kind of platform” to speak.)

But the attendance of Russian Pres-ident Vladimir Putin, U.S. Vice Presi-dent Mike Pence and French President Emmanuel Macron among other world

leaders was nonetheless an unprece-dented tour de force that helped bur-nish both Israel’s international standing and its image as chief guardian of the memory of the Holocaust. It also com-manded much media attention, which some argued stole the Auschwitz event’s thunder.

Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, complained in an interview with The Times of Israel that the decision to hold the event in Israel was “pathetic and immature.” Duda said that Auschwitz was the natural place to commemorate the liberation.

“Deep within my soul I believe that this is the appropriate place, the best one,” Duda said in his speech earlier this month to Polish Jewish leaders, adding that the “stiffening cold makes one truly comprehend the horror of the place.”

“I believe that one must not deprive [Auschwitz] of its remembrance by transferring it somewhere else,” he said.

Some survivors agree. Salo Muller, an 83-year-old Dutch Holocaust survivor whose parents were murdered at Aus-chwitz, said he wants to memorialize them in the place where they killed.

“I think about them all the time,” Muller said. “And I’m not against com-memorating them anywhere. But when I want to go to say a prayer on their souls, I do it as Auschwitz.”

Kantor, who was born in Russia and

now lives in London, took a different view. Holding the ceremony in Israel, the European Jewish leader told The Jerusalem Post earlier this month, con-nects the Holocaust to the contemporary fight against anti-Semitism.

“With the alarming rise of anti-Sem-itism over the past years, and the 75th anniversary milestone, I thought that Israel, the Jewish state and Yad Vashem in particular would be the most suitable place to hold it,” Kantor said.

Such competing attitudes are part of a longstanding tension between advo-cates who understand the Holocaust in universalist terms as a human tragedy and those who insist that it is first and foremost a Jewish one. Rabbi Avraham Krieger, the director of Israel’s Shem Olam Holocaust Institute for Education, Documentation and Research, said the two attitudes are not mutually exclusive.

But the struggle between them is complicated by growing efforts in Eu-rope to shift the Holocaust narrative. In 2018, Poland passed a law that made it illegal to accuse the country of complici-ty in Nazi crimes, sparking a diplomatic crisis with Israel. Ukraine and Latvia have passed similar laws, and Lithuania is considering one.

“There are growing attempts to re-write or otherwise control the narrative of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, where the killing took place,” Krieger said. “Israel taking up a more central role in Holocaust commemoration is a

good development because it’s not part of this problem.”

Israeli officials have occasionally spo-ken out about the revisionism hap-pening in Europe, though some critics charge that the Jewish state hasn’t been forceful enough.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year said it was “outrageous” to talk about “Jewish collaborators” with the Nazis, as Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland did in a 2018 in-terview with an Israeli journalist.

In October, in his first public com-ment about the widespread denial of Lithuania’s complicity in the Holocaust, Israeli Ambassador Yosef Levy told a group of history teachers that it was vital to be honest about the past.

“The most patriotic thing you can do is teach history honestly,” Levy said in a speech in Vilnius.

In Ukraine, Israeli Ambassador Joel Lion broke a long silence last year when he spoke out against the state-sponsored veneration of Nazi collaborators, spark-ing a protest by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

Some Holocaust survivors say they prefer to memorialize the Holocaust at Auschwitz precisely to combat this sort of revisionism.

Edward Mosberg, a 94-year-old recov-ering cancer patient from New Jersey who flew to Poland with a medical team for this year’s commemoration, said it was vital to remember the genocide on European soil, “especially now when there are so many politicians lying about history.”

But Poland’s role as the locus of Ho-locaust remembrance comes with its own set of complications and sensitiv-ities. For one thing, the existence of a functioning church on the grounds of Auschwitz continues to be seen as an affront by some Jewish leaders. For another, the camp is at the center of a growing industry in Holocaust tourism that many critics find distasteful.

Still, few would deny that the site is a powerful educational tool.

“In Israel, the children hear the sirens and they get told, they know,” Bat-Sheva Dagan, a 94-year-old Polish survivor, said in a speech Monday at the camp, referencing the air raid sirens sounded in Israel to commemorate the Holocaust.

But, she added, “It is this place that tells this story.” b

Legal Notices … NOTICE OF FORMATION

P & S Real Property LLC has filed Ar-ticles of Organization with the Secretary of State on January 8, 2020. Its office is lo-cated in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, 19 Mount Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island 02906. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.


Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: 1776 Lake, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Sec-retary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 10, 2020. New York office loca-tion: Monroe County. Principal business location: 36 King Street, Rochester, New York 14608. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any

such process to: 36 King Street, Rochester, New York 14608. LLC is to be managed by one or more members. LLC is organized to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law.


(1) Name: Dooley Enterprises LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on December 24, 2019 (3) Its office location is to be in Monroe County, State of New York. (4) The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process

against the LLC is: 195 San Gabriel Drive, Rochester, NY 14610 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany is Abundant Solar Power (CNY) LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on January 9, 2020. The office of the Company is located in the County of Monroe, State of New York. The New York Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the Company upon whom pro-cess in any action or proceeding against it may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of process in any action or proceeding against the Company served upon him or

her is 700 W Metro Park, Rochester, New York 14623. The purpose of the business is any lawful business.


(1) Name: CMB Auto LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on January 8, 2020 (3) Its office location is to be in Monroe County, State of New York. (4) The SSNY has been des-ignated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 35 Green Acre Lane, Rochester, NY 14624 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.


(1) Name: Self Storage Logistics LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on December 20, 2019

(3) Its office location is to be in Ontario County, State of New York. (4) The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 784 Old Dutch Road, Victor, NY 14564 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BUFFALO ROAD LAND LLC

Buffalo Road Land LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 01/10/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 259 Alexander Street, Rochester, NY 14607. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Perspective …

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, right, and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier carry candles in memory of Holocaust victims in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)


NOTICE OF FORMATION15 PENN LLC has filed Articles of Or-

ganization with the Secretary of State on January 14, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 200, Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION 3D CAMPAIGN LLC

Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/10/20. Office loca-tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o the Company, 144 Guine-vere Drive, Rochester, New York 14626

Notice of formation of limited liability company

Name: Blue Nile Capital, LLC (the Company). Article of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/2019. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, 3177 Latta Rd STE 228, Rochester, NY 14612. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its busi-ness, and no member shall have authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JMTINNEY LLC

JMTinney LLC filed Articles of Or-ganization with NYS on 01/08/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been

designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 174 Hurstbourne Road, Rochester, NY 14609. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION JOHNSON MARWAY HOLDINGS, LLC

Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/13/20. Office loca-tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o the Company, 665 Phelps Road, Honeoye Falls, New York 14472

NOTICE OF FORMATIONAA FENCING LLC (the “LLC”) filed

Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on DECEMBER 2, 2019. Its office is located in MONROE County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to THE LLC, 4538 SEWEDN WALKER ROAD, BROCKPORT, NY 14420. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION RETIREMENT OPTIMIZATION GROUP HC LLC

Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/14/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designat-ed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o the Company, 140A Metro Park, Suite #18, Rochester, New York 14623

NOTICE OF FORMATION RETIREMENT OPTIMIZATION GROUP A LLC

Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/14/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designat-ed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail

copy of process to c/o the Company, 140A Metro Park, Suite #18, Rochester, New York 14623

NOTICE OF FORMATION JUG CAPITAL, LLC has filed an Appli-

cation for Authority (For LLC) with the Secretary of State on May 8, 2018. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, 588 Sutter Street #532, San Francisco, CA 94102. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION580 Child Street LLC filed Articles of

Organization with the New York Depart-ment of State on 1/16/2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any pro-cess shall be mailed to 580 Child Street, Rochester NY 14606. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONTLJ STORAGE LLC has filed an Appli-

cation for Authority with the Secretary of State on April 30, 2013 and a Bien-nial Statement was filed on December 13, 2019. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, 2140 S. Dupont Highway, Camden, Delaware 19934. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONJEN-TRE-LEE STORAGE, LLC has filed

an Application for Authority with the Secretary of State on April 30, 2013 and a Biennial Statement was filed on De-cember 13, 2019. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The

LLC, 2140 S. Dupont Highway, Camden, Delaware 19934. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLCWhitney Baird Phase 3, LLC has filed

Articles of Organization with the NY Secy of State on 1.9.20. Its principal place of business is 205 St. Paul St., Rochester, NY in Monroe County. The Secy of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any pro-cess shall be mailed to the company at 205 St. Paul St., Rochester, NY. The purpose is to engage in any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION VI HOLDINGS LLC

Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/28/13. Office loca-tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o the Company, 111 Knicker-bocker Road, Pittsford, New York 14534

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATIONNotice of formation of limited liability

company (LLC). Name: ALMHOF PART-NERS, LLC (the Company). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/27/19. NY office loca-tion: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o Phillips Lytle LLP, 1400 First Federal Plaza, Roch-ester, New York. The Company is to be managed by one or more members. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Com-pany for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Compa-ny, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company sole-

ly by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.

NOTICE OF CONVERSIONNotice of conversion to a limited lia-

bility company (LLC). Name: Fall-Bru LLC (the Company). Notice of conversion to a limited liability company filed with Secre-tary of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/11/2018. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom pro-cess against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the LLC, 1726 Long Pond Road, Rochester, New York. The Company is to be managed by one or more members. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Com-pany: any and all lawful activities.

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC)

Name: Wolfpack Multisport LLC. Ar-ticles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 22, 2020. New York office location: Mon-roe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: 3015 St. Paul Blvd, Roch-ester, NY 14617. LLC is to be managed by one or more members. LLC is organized to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law.

Legal Notices …

Israel …

West Bank Settlements Report Rapid Growth in 2019

by JOSEF FEDERMANJERUSALEM (AP) — The pop-

ulation of Jewish settlements in the West Bank surged by more than 3% in 2019, well above the growth rate of Israel’s overall population, a settler group said Tuesday. It predicted even high-er growth this year thanks to a nascent building boom made possible by friendly policies of the Trump administration.

The data, released ahead of President Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace plan, indi-cate that evacuating settlements is no longer a viable option for international peacemakers, said Baruch Gordon, director of West Bank Jewish Population Stats.

“We’re here and we’re not going anywhere,” he said.

His group, using official In-terior Ministry data, said the population of West Bank settle-

ments rose to 463,353 people as of Jan. 1, up 3.1% from 449,508 a year earlier. In comparison, Israel’s overall population rose 1.9% in 2019 to 9,136,000 peo-ple, according to official data.

The figures do not include an estimated 300,000 Jewish Israelis living in settlements in annexed east Jerusalem.

The Palestinians seek the West Bank and east Jerusalem — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — as parts of an independent Pales-tinian state.

“All settlements are illegal and the settler presence on Pal-estinian land is illegal,” said Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokes-man for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. “This is a result of Israeli government pol-icies.”

Israel annexed east Jerusalem and considers the entire city

to be its capital. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated that he will seek to annex large chunks of the West Bank after Trump’s peace plan is released later Tuesday.

The international community considers both territories to be occupied and all settlements illegal. But the Trump admin-istration, in a break from its predecessors and the rest of the world, has taken a much friend-lier approach and in November declared it does not consider settlements illegal.

One of the architects of the peace plan, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, is a former president of Bet El Institutions, which sponsored Tuesday’s report. U.S. support for the settlements in the peace plan could give Israel the cover it needs to proceed with annex-ation plans.

According to Tuesday’s re-port, the growth rate of the settlement population last year actually dipped slightly from the 3.3% figure posted in 2018. But it still remained well ahead of the general population. The growth is driven in part by the relatively affordable housing prices found in the settlements, as well as the higher birthrate among their many religious families.

After a slowdown in settle-ment activity during the final years of the anti-settlement Obama administration, Israel has stepped up its plans for construction since Trump took office.

Both settlers and their critics call this the “Trump effect,” and predict a jump in construc-tion in the coming years.

According to the anti-settle-ment watchdog group Peace

Now, Israel in 2019 pushed forward plans to build 9,413 settlement homes, roughly the same levels as 2017 and 2018. The figures are more than triple the level of settlement planning during the final two years of the Obama administration.

It generally takes several years for settlement construc-tion to go through the planning process and win the necessary bureaucratic approvals. That means that actual construction should begin to take off this year, according to Peace Now.

“We haven’t real ly seen that yet,” said Brian Reeves, a spokesman for Peace Now. “2020 will see a spike in con-struction starts.”

“The numbers are explod-ing right now,” added Gordon. “That will be apparent in next year’s report and the year after that.” b

A view of the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ariel, January 28. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A view overlooks the West Bank settlement of Ari’el, January 28. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A construction site at Shvut Rachel in the West Bank on May 1, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)


Legal Notices … NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION

Notice of formation of limited liability company. Name: JG Associates Group LLC (the Company). Articles of Organi-zation filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/07/20. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company,90 Office Parkway, Pittsford, New York 14534. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Com-pany for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no mem-ber shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.


The name of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) is Applewood Estates MHP, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 10/22/2019. Office location is Monroe County, New York. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 90 Airpark Dr., Ste. 400, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION ESCHER ENTERPRISES, LLC

Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/17/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o the Company, 1200A Scottsville Road, Suite 375, Rochester, New York 14624

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ZEGA, LLC

ZEGA, LLC filed Articles of Organi-zation with NYS on October 30, 2019. Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. The principal business loca-tion is 11 Kingsley Circle, Fairport, NY 14450. The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it is c/o ML Tax & Accounting Services, Inc., 2166 Brighton Henrietta Townline Road, Suite B, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION47 LEAVENWORTH LLC has filed Ar-

ticles of Organization with the Secretary of State on January 22, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, 47 Leavenworth Street, Rochester, New York 14613. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATIONNotice of format ion of l im-

i ted l iab i l i t y company . Name: FBMTRDB LLC (the Company). Articles

of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/09/19. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, 90 Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF: TRT Transportaion, LLC

TRT Transportation, LLC filed Arti-cles of Organization with NYS on Sep-tember 17, 2019. Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. The prin-cipal business location is 250 Mill Street Rochester NY 14614. The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it is c/o Roderick Nelson, TRT Tranportation, LLC, 250 Mill Street Rochester NY 14614. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 36 Tracy, LLC

36 Tracy, LLC filed Articles of Orga-nization with NYS on 4/28/2015. Its prin-cipal office is in Monroe County, New York. The principal business location is 26 Stony Brook Lane, Fairport, N.Y. 14450 The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it to 36 Tracy, LLC 26 Stony Brook Lane, Fairport NY 14450 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.


Streamline Real Estate Partners, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State on 1/15/20. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the Company upon whom pro-cess against it may be served, and a copy shall be mailed to 1657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610. Its purpose is any lawful business.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TCFL LLCTCFL LLC filed Articles of Organi-

zation with NYS on 10/2/2019. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 4670 Dewey Avenue, Rochester, NY 14612. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONMichele & One L Co. LLC filed Arti-

cles of Organization with Sec. of State (SSNY) on January 24, 2020. Office loca-tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process

against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the Michele & One L Co. LLC, 51 Atlantic Ave, Rochester, New York 14607. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONFEDELE FAMILY LLC filed Articles of

Organization with the New York Depart-ment of State on January 24, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 920 Elm Ridge Center Drive. Rochester, NY 14626. The purpose of the Company is any lawful business in the State of New York

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CHERRY CRICK ASSOCIATES LLC

CHERRY CRICK ASSOCIATES LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 1/15/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 3375 Brighton Henrietta Townline Road, Rochester, NY 14623. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification:Notice of Qualification of IMPELLENT

VENTURES I, LP. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/24/20. Office lo-cation: Monroe County. LP formed in DE on 1/10/20. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 10 SUMMIT OAKS, PITTSFORD, NY, 14534, principal business address. DE address of LP: 850 New Burton Rd., Suite 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Name/address of each general partner available from Sec. of State. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification:Notice of Qualification of IMPEL-

LENT VENTURES I GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/24/20. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in DE on 1/10/20. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 10 SUMMIT OAKS, PITTSFORD, NY, 14534, principal business address. DE address of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Suite 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONVAEGORSTEIN BUSINESS ENTER-

PRISES LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the New York De-partment of State on MARCH 2, 2010. Its office is located in MONROE County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to THE LLC, 7014 13TH AVENUE, SUITE 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.


Marvelous Mind Academy LLC filed Articles of Organization with the

NY Department of State on May 20, 2014. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 274 North Goodman Street, Suite D110, Rochester, NY 14607. Its purpose is any lawful business.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, NUMBER 3164750 FOR WINE, BEER AND CIDER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY LOPEZ-ELLIS ALLIANCE, INC. D/B/A BETTER TOGETHER DOG PARK TO SELL WINE, BEER AND CIDER AT RETAIL IN A RECREATION FACILITY (INDOOR DOG PARK) UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEV-ERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 613 CULVER ROAD, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14609 FOR ON PREMISES CONSUMPTION.

Notice of Qualification:Notice of Qualification of IMPELLENT

VENTURES, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/27/20. Office loca-tion: Monroe County. LLC formed in DE on 1/10/20. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 10 SUMMIT OAKS, PITTSFORD, NY, 14534, principal business address. DE address of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Suite 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LENMARL LLC

LENMARL LLC filed Articles of Or-ganization with NYS on 1/21/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 6 Oasis Lane, Rochester, New York 14624. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of 1-2 Davy, LLC

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY January 28, 2020. Office location: 394 Bromley Road, Churchville, New York 14428. SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The Company 394 Brom-ley Road, Churchville, New York 14428 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PUR-POSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of 3230-3244

Buffalo, LLC a domestic Limited Lia-bility Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY January 28, 2020. Office location: 394 Bromley Road, Churchville, New York 14428. SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The Company 394 Bromley Road, Churchville, New York 14428 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of Alan Todd

Enterprises, LLC a domestic Limited

Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY November 21, 2019. Of-fice location:1448 Blossom Road, Roches-ter, New York 14610. SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The Company 1448 Blossom Road, Rochester, New York 14610 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATIONNotice of formation of limited liability

company. Name: FSI Driving Park 2 LLC (the Company). Articles of Organi-zation filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/09/19. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, 90 Goodway Drive, Roch-ester, NY 14623. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Com-pany for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no mem-ber shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CDSRx LLC

CDSRx LLC filed Articles of Organi-zation with NYS on 01/28/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 860 Hard Road, Webster, NY 14580. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 800 PARKER HILL DRIVE LLC

800 Parker Hill Drive LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 01/27/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, PO Box 230, Henriet-ta, NY 14467. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.


The name of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) is NYS Route 5 Stor-age, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 2/7/2019. Office location is Monroe County, New York. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 90 Airpark Dr., Ste. 400, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activity.

World …

Morocco Opens $1.5 Million Center Dedicated to Jewish Culture in City of Essaouira

by JOSEFIN DOLSTEN(JTA) — Morocco’s king has

inaugurated a $1.5 million cen-ter dedicated to Jewish culture in the city of Essaouira.

Last week, King Mohammed VI attended the inauguration for Bayt Dakira, which means House of Memory in Arabic.

The port city was formerly home to a large population of Jews, who at one point made up 40 percent of the popula-tion. Many of the more than 200,000 Jews that once lived in Morocco fled because of the hostility they felt following the

establishment of Israel in 1948 and in decades after, although some 3,000 still live in the country.

Today fewer than a handful of Jews reside in the city, al-though about 60-80 Moroccan Jewish expats live there part of the year.

The center is located in a restored home that houses a small synagogue and includes a museum, research center and space that will host cul-tural events. The project was created by Andre Azoulay, a France-educated Moroccan Jew

who serves as a senior adviser to the king.

Most of the funding came from the Moroccan govern-ment, with a quarter coming from private donors.

Among a number of high-pro-file Moroccan Jews who attend-ed the event and a dinner with the king afterwards were Azou-lay and his daughter, Audrey, who serves as the director-gen-eral of the United Nations Edu-cational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, Mo-roccan Jewish comedian Gad Elmaleh and the chief rabbi

of Geneva, Switzerland Izhak Dayan.

Under King Mohammed VI, Morocco has made efforts to preserve Jewish sites. The country is home to a Jewish museum in Casablanca, which along with an adjacent syna-gogue was renovated and re-dedicated in 2016.

Jason Guberman, the direc-tor of the American Sephardi Federation, which is serving as a partner organization to Bayit Dakira, praised the king for his efforts.

“On the one hand it has the

museum and it’s going to be about studying the past, but it’s also very much about doing events and bringing people to Essaouira today,” Guberman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “It sayts a lot about Morocco’s future, the fact that the king would come to open up a center like this.”

The American Sephardi Fed-eration also sent a letter to-gether with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to the king of Morocco thanking him for opening the center. b


Shame, Geopolitics, and the Remembrance of Auschwitz

by VIVIAN BERCOVICIBeginning Monday, close to 50 heads

of state, senior officials, and assorted royals began arriving in Israel to mark the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In attendance will be Vladimir Putin, Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi, Emmanuel Macron, Prince Charles, and many oth-ers, including a strong contingent from European countries where millions of Jews were betrayed and slaughtered.

Among the marquee events for digni-taries will be a state dinner hosted by President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday night. That will be followed by a cere-mony on Thursday evening, at which Russian President Putin, among others, will address the room.

The real story, however, is the back-stage drama.

Snubbing the entire three-day pro-gram, Polish President Andrzej Duda is furious that he was not invited to speak at the gathering. Protocol has deter-mined that only representatives of the Allied victors and the German perpetra-tors will speak. That President Putin is being so honored further enraged Duda.

The Poles and Russians are engaged in a super-charged war of words amid their efforts to recast history to their advantage. Russia portrays Poland as a nation of Nazi collaborators. And Poland presents Russia as an appeaser, primar-ily because of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and alleges that the Soviets were

in a position to liberate Auschwitz, and much of Poland, six months before they did.

In Poland’s eyes, Russia is being given carte blanche before a rarefied interna-tional assembly of leaders to present and reinforce its historical perspective — one that is heavy on Polish collaboration with Nazis. The Poles, in recent years, have gone to great lengths to advance their preferred narrative, which lauds Polish heroism in resisting the occupy-ing German forces and downplays the vicious and visceral anti-Semitism that plagued and, arguably, is still quite en-trenched in Polish society.

Poles were unquestionably persecuted under Nazi rule. They also aided and abetted the extreme persecution of Pol-ish Jews. There is no way that 6 million European Jews (among them close to 3 million Polish Jews) would have been massacred — most between 1941 and 1945 — without the enthusiastic collab-oration of locals everywhere, including Poland.

Putin’s perceived preferential treat-ment is, however, mired in layers of realpolitik, which has little to do with the historical squabble between Russia and Poland.

I mean, he’s Putin.He’s up to his eyeballs in the Middle

East, directly influencing conflicts that are at the core of Israel’s interests. In that regard, Poland is, largely, irrelevant.

And then there’s the matter of Na’ama

Issachar, a 27-year-old Israeli who was flying home from India last April, via Moscow, when 9.5 grams of marijuana were found in her baggage. She was hauled off to a Russian prison, convicted of drug trafficking, and dealt a sentence of 7.5 years. Na’ama has become a cause celebre in Israel. She could be anyone’s daughter and the sentence meted is beyond exaggerated, even for a drug-in-tolerant country like Russia.

Na’ama was a gift for Putin, who hoped to barter her freedom in return for that of Aleksey Burkov, a Russian hacker who was being held in Israel be-fore being extradited to the U.S. in early November. In fact, reports suggest that Burkov is scheduled to plead guilty in a U.S. court on Thursday to charges re-lated to multi-million dollar credit card embezzlement in America.

Fol lowing Burkov’s extradit ion, Na’ama’s plight looked increasingly desperate. Her mother, resolute on Israeli television night after night, vowed not to return to Israel without her daughter. But — on Sunday evening — she did just that, arriving at Ben Gurion airport, smiling and making very clear that she expects a positive outcome very, very soon.

Truth is, when Putin did not cancel his upcoming visit, it was clear that the Na’ama issue would be resolved. Spec-ulation among the chattering politicos in Israel has been that Benjamin Net-anyahu and Putin had already agreed

to her repatriation. In return, Putin will be rewarded with concessions regarding ownership of a particularly valuable compound in the center of the city to which Russia has strong historical ties. There was no way that Putin would come to Israel to be vilified. Now, he will be a hero, and he may also boost Bibi’s election fortunes.

Just another day on the glam hustings of international wheeling and dealing.

And, then, there is the matter of hold-ing an International Holocaust Forum in Israel at all. Both president Duda and the chair of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum have publicly questioned the appropriateness of the venue. Speaking with Jewish leaders in Warsaw on Janu-ary 9, president Duda remarked:

Deep within my soul I believe that this is the appropriate place, the best one. I believe that one must not deprive this place of its remembrance by transfer-ring it somewhere else and by stressing somewhere else what happened more than 75 years ago and what took place over that period — from de facto 1940 until 1945.

Duda’s comments remind me of an equally tone-deaf remark made by the spouse of the former Canadian ambas-sador to Poland. Several years ago, we attended together a ceremony commem-orating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in Warsaw, at which the Israeli national an-them “Hatikvah” was played. The Am-

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You Can’t Defend Haredi Orthodox Jews Against Violence While Demonizing Our Schools

by RABBI AVI SHAFRANNEW YORK (JTA) — Relent-

less campaigns calling for cur-ricula reform in the nation’s yeshivas. Misleading headlines about educational standards at Orthodox schools. Zoning efforts aimed at keeping large Jewish families out of subur-ban towns. Some see a direct link between such things and the anti-Semitic violence that has erupted on the streets of Brooklyn.

I don’t. But links can be indirect.Groups that smear yeshivas,

and suburbanites who assail observant Jews for daring to want to move into their towns, thicken an expanding cloud of hostility against Jews who wear their Jewishness openly. Deny-ing that subtle but significant link should not be an option.

Since 2012, an activist group called Young Advocates for Fair Education has accused a number of Hasidic yeshivas of neglecting secular studies and thereby handicapping their stu-dents, preventing them from becoming productive members of society.

The group’s founder and ex-

ecutive director, Naftuli Mo-ster, would himself seem to belie his claim. He has mount-ed a tremendously successful, if misleading, public relations campaign against those yeshi-vas, and convinced a wide as-sortment of media to parrot and embrace his claims — an impressive accomplishment for a graduate of what he insists is

a school that didn’t prepare him for a career.

Moster insists that his only concern in championing state control and radical overhaul of all yeshivas and private schools in New York State is to ensure that Hasidic children will be able to make decent livings. But some observers, who note that he has characterized Orthodox

rules governing family purity as “absurd” and “crooked,” feel that Moster may be motivated by the antipathy he harbors for the community in which he was raised.

He also claims that many Ha-sidic parents are overjoyed by his crusade but are too cowed by nefarious community lead-ers to register their chagrin.

The truth emerged when New York State released pro-posed regulations calling for tight state oversight of private schools. YAFFED reportedly managed to amass 2,000 com-ments of support for the mea-sure. Opponents, though — ac-tual parents and grandparents of yeshiva students who went on record against the regula-tions — numbered more than 140,000.

Still, the New York City Edu-cation Department investigated YAFFED’s charges. It did not lo-cate the thousands of students reputed to be barely able to sign their names in English.

Of the 39 allegedly deadbeat yeshivas YAFFED had point-ed to, only 28 were found to in fact be K-12 schools — the others served older students and were thus outside of the department’s purview.

Two of those 28 were found to be fully providing the entire spectrum (12 distinct subject areas) of mandated secular studies; 21 were close to pro-viding them or in the process of developing equivalency of instruction. A total of five ye-

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Members of the Jewish Orthodox community walk through a Brooklyn neighborhood on the Yom Kippur holiday, Oct. 9, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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A Great, But Fragile, Triumph of Zionismby CAROLINE GLICK

(JNS) — What the foreign leaders who came to Jerusalem last week to mark In-ternational Holocaust Remembrance Day and commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz will take home from their visits is unknowable. But we do know what they brought with them. Whether they intended to or not, the leaders who came this week to Israel’s capital to bow their heads in memory of the six million sons and daughters of Israel murdered in the Holocaust brought with them a recog-nition of Zionism’s foundational truth: The Land of Israel is the one and only, eternal homeland of the Jewish people.

In this sense, the event marks a tri-umph of Zionism over anti-Zionism.

This victory was never assured and there is no guarantee that this week’s achievement will endure.

Consider the achievement.Modern Zionism — the movement to

reconstitute the Jewish homeland in the land of Israel after nearly 2,000 years of exile —provoked enormous opposition from the very start. Jewish national-ism flew in the face of the prevailing zeitgeist in elite Jewish and non-Jewish circles in the mid and late nineteenth century. That zeitgeist, conceived by En-lightenment philosophers and embraced by Reform Judaism, asserted that the Jews were members of the Mosaic faith, not a nation. As such, they were free to assimilate — without their particular Jewish identity — into wider society.

The force of Reform Judaism’s rejec-tion of Zionism in favor of universalism was undiminished by the Holocaust. It was undiminished by Israel’s establish-ment. It was given harsh expression in 1960.

As Daniel Gordis recounts in his book We Stand Divided: The Rift between American Jews and Israel, on May 23, 1960, then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion alighted the speaker’s po-dium at the Knesset and announced that Israeli security forces had captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and brought him to Jerusalem to stand trial for his role in the genocide of European Jewry.

Israel i Jewry responded to the earth-shattering news with a sense that a great historical justice had been served. Eichmann’s capture was proof that the Jews were no longer homeless. By capturing Eichmann, Israel was tak-ing responsibility for the Jewish people as a whole. They had a home. Those who harmed Jews anywhere in the world could henceforth expect to be held

accountable by the Jews themselves, from their capital in Jerusalem.

The heads of the American Jewish community were not happy with this turn of events.

Joseph Proskauer, former president of the American Jewish Committee, claimed Israel had no right to act in the name of the Jewish people. Rabbi Elmer Berger from the American Jewish Coun-cil said Israel’s capture of Eichmann was a “Zionist declaration of war” against the Jews in America.

Nahum Goldmann, the New York-based president of the World Zionist Or-ganization, suggested that foreign jurists should serve on the court tribunal. That is, he insinuated that Jews acting as Jews (rather than Americans, or British), lacked the credibility to fairly judge the architect of the recent genocide of the Jewish people.

With the Six-Day War of 1967, Israeli Jews obliterated the stereotype of the Jew as a weak penitent. Israel’s triumph stirred Jewish pride and nationalism in Jewish hearts from the Soviet gulag to San Francisco. Following the war, the Reform movement formally embraced Zionism.

But the Reform Jews had been far from alone in embracing the anti-Zionist myth that rejected the fact that the Jews are a nation and that Israel is the Jewish homeland.

This position was happily embraced by Israel’s worst enemies — the Arab states, the Palestine Liberation Orga-nization (PLO), the Soviet Union, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Iranian regime and Hamas. From the Arab League to the PLO charter, to the Hamas covenant, to the KGB propaganda shop, all insisted that Zionism was a form of European colonialism. The Jews had no roots in Jerusalem or the land of Israel. Judaism was a mere religion. Jews were not a nation. Israel itself was nothing more than a sop for European guilt. It was a European colonial project created to cleanse the conscience of Europe in the wake of the Holocaust.

A decade ago, the anti-Zionist forces scored their greatest political victory. On June 4, 2009, the new U.S. president, Barack Obama, delivered his “Address to the Muslim World” at American Uni-versity in Cairo. Before an audience that included a large contingent of Muslim Brotherhood members, specifically invit-ed by the White House, Obama resonat-ed their rejection of Jewish history and denial of the Jewish roots and rights to the Land of Israel.

In Cairo, Obama asserted that Israel’s

establishment was a product of “a tragic history … Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust.”

Obama pointedly failed to utter a word about the nation of Israel’s historic ties to its homeland. Instead, he announced that he would travel from Cairo to Buch-enwald concentration camp. Jerusalem was not on his itinerary.

Obama’s speech was the single most hostile act any U.S. leader ever took against the Jewish state. Speaking to a room full of Israel’s enemies, Obama resonated their lies and propaganda.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Net-anyahu was reportedly stunned by the existential hostility towards Israel and the Jewish people Obama displayed in Cairo. But once he recognized the na-ture of the problem, Netanyahu spent the next 10 years insisting on the truth. Despite catcalls of criticism from the Israeli left, from liberal American Jews, from the European Union and from the Obama administration, Netanyahu and the governments he led insisted on telling the truth about Israel and Zion-ism over and over and over again, and insisted that the truth be acknowledged.

At every opportunity, Netanyahu stat-ed and restated that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people and was never the capital of any other na-tion. He stated and repeated endlessly that Israel is the homeland and the na-tion-state of the Jewish people and was never the homeland or nation-state of any other people.

Over time, it made a difference.The arrival of dozens of world leaders

in Jerusalem to mark International Ho-locaust Remembrance Day and commit themselves to fight anti-Semitism rep-resents a spectacular reversal.

By coming to Jerusalem the visiting dignitaries embraced the truth at the heart of Zionism: Israel was not founded because of Auschwitz. It was founded because the Jews came home to live in their homeland as a free nation, finally.

Had the State of Israel existed in 1939, Auschwitz would never have been built.

Whether they realized it or not, these leaders’ presence in Jerusalem at a conference on Mt. Herzl dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism made clear that Israel is the best weapon against an-ti-Semitism. You don’t defeat anti-Sem-itism with hate speech laws, although judiciously written and applied laws can contribute to the effort. You defeat anti-Semitism by embracing Israel. The stronger, more secure and more peaceful

Israel is, the safer Jews will be through-out the world.

This stunning statement — which the leaders made simply by congregating in Jerusalem — was a hundred years in the making. It didn’t happen by chance. It was the product of years of hard, thankless work. And if that work doesn’t continue apace into the future, the rec-ognition will be fleeting.

Obama’s presidency facilitated the rise of anti-Zionist forces in the Democratic Party and empowered anti-Zionists in the American Jewish community.

J Street was formed at the outset of the Obama presidency. By blaming Israel for the absence of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, it serves as an incuba-tor for anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic Jew-ish groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, which reject Israel’s right to exist. These groups, in turn, radical-ize the Jewish establishment.

In 2018, almost all major American Jewish organizations condemned Israel for the Knesset’s passage of the Na-tion-State Law. The law, which enjoys massive public support in Israel, gives constitutional weight to Israel’s identity as the nation-state of the Jewish people. The opposition of groups like the Jew-ish Federations of North America to a law that does no more than restate the obvious is a clear sign of that American Jewish Zionism is fraying.

Then there is the so-called “interna-tional community.”

During their visits this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French Pres-ident Emmanuel Macron and Prince Charles all divided their time between commemorating the Holocaust and pledging to fight anti-Semitism in Je-rusalem on the one hand, and traveling to Ramallah to meet with Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust-denying anti-Semite, on the other.

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor’s recommendation to try Is-raeli leaders and soldiers for imaginary war crimes represents an attempt by the so-called international community to criminalize Israel’s very existence.

French President Macron’s made-for-TV abuse of Israeli forces charged with protecting him Wednesday in the Old City is proof that for the nations of Eu-rope, anti-Semitism remains a powerful political weapon.

To secure what has been painstak-ingly accomplished, we need to commit ourselves to keep our guard up. We must continue to tell the truth and call out the lies of the anti-Semites. The Jewish

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bassador’s husband, during the anthem, sneered, quite loudly: “Why are they playing that? Israel didn’t even exist during the uprising!”

An Israeli tourist happened to be standing right behind us and finished him off. “He [Mor-dechai Anilewicz, the leader of the uprising] was a Zionist. That was his anthem.”

My goodness. Could anyone actually consider it inappropri-ate to play the Israeli anthem at

any event commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising and, in particular, its commander marking the slaughter of 6 mil-lion Jews? Apparently so.

Most grievous, however, and lost in all the buzz and ma-neuvering regarding the Israeli event, is the deeply personal solemnity of this moment. Of the 800 plus VIP invitees to the state ceremony, at which all foreign dignitaries and Net-anyahu will be present, a scant

30 seats were reserved for the few Auschwitz survivors who are able to attend. Others were left off the list. Family members of survivors were not even con-sidered.

As the daughter of a recently deceased survivor, I can think of nothing more important and appropriate, than to honor those who are living. When my father passed, the most difficult phone call I had to make was to his 86-year-old buddy, who was

sent to Auschwitz at age 14. My dad was 91 when he died. Yet his friend was distraught. “How could he just give up like that?” They never give up. They never gave up.

And those who are st i l l among us must be honored as the titans they are and were.

When this “oversight” came to light, a Likud MK offered to give his seat to a survivor. That gesture has now been made by other VIPs.

That the handful of men and women who are a living testa-ment to this apocryphal epoch, who will likely not live much longer, should be reduced to scavenging for a seat, in Israel, is incomprehensible.

For shame. bVivian Bercovici served as

Canada’s ambassador to Israel from 2014 to 2016. She is a law-yer and consultant and resides in Tel Aviv.

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shivas were found to be “under-developed.”

This means 82 percent of ye-shivas reported as failing were meeting or close to meeting the DOE’s curriculum standards. Contrast this, if you will, with the 47 percent proficiency in English and 46 percent pro-ficiency in math for students across New York City public schools.

In the letter detailing the findings, New York City De-partment of Education Chancel-lor Richard A. Carranza noted that “The DOE recognizes and applauds the significant prog-ress made as a result of the

proactive steps many schools have taken.”

Carranza also pointed out that a group called Parents for Educational and Religious Lib-erty in Schools “has developed and expanded… secular cur-riculum materials it has made available to yeshivas in mathe-matics, English Language Arts, and STEM.” He added, too, that “substantially equivalent in-struction does not necessarily require that a school meet each and every item in the Educa-tion Law” and that “a strong argument has been made that Judaic Studies can be a power-ful context in which to cultivate

critical thinking and textual analysis skills.”

Then came the inflammatory headlines from national and Jewish outlets alike, which er-roneously proclaimed that only two yeshivas provide basic sec-ular education.

Pivot, now, to upstate New York and northern New Jer-sey, where Orthodox Jewish families from Brooklyn have been migrating since the 1970s, seeking a less urban and more affordable place to live.

A number of towns have en-acted zoning changes forbid-ding new houses of worship.

In several communities in N.J., including Tom’s River and Jersey City, officials have pushed back against an influx of Jewish families by enacted so-called “no knock” ordinanc-es, barring real estate agents representing the Hasidic com-munity from offering to buy homes.

In the Orange County town of Chester, 60 miles north of New York City, housing rules were used to prevent an influx of Hasidic Jews. New York At-torney General Letitia James recently announced action to fight the rules.

James has called the town’s actions “blatant anti-Semitism.” She warns that “some people find it easy to present Orthodox

Jews as the source of all their problems. That’s just wrong.”

Last year, a video produced by the Rockland County Re-publican Party began with dark clouds rolling in and ominous orchestral music swelling as large text flashes slowly across the screen warning that “a storm is brewing” and “if they win, we lose.”

The “they,” the production makes clear, are the Orthodox Jewish residents of the county’s villages and towns. After an outcry, the video was removed. But its creation was telling.

The previous year, Coun-cilman Pete Bradley of Clark-stown, a Rockland County town, encouraged local resi-dents to call or text him if they “suspect that non-residents are using our Town Parks.” Ortho-dox families from neighbor-ing towns had apparently been bringing their children to play in Clarkstown’s parks.

A few months earlier, Brad-ley criticized New York Gover-nor Andrew Cuomo for visiting with Hasidic Jewish community leaders, contrasting them with what he called “normal Jews.”

In Jackson Township, New Jersey, Councilman Robert Nixon was accused of orches-trating the creation of sever-al ordinances aimed at curb-ing the activities of Orthodox

Jewish residents, of spying on Jewish residents and of coor-dinating his efforts with “Jack-son Strong,” a group that has demonstrated deeply anti-Or-thodox sentiment. After becom-ing the subject of two federal civil rights lawsuits, Nixon re-signed.

In the Ocean County town of Toms River, the town’s mayor once called the growing Or-thodox presence “an invasion,” and residents posted unfriendly comments online, including one referring to the Orthodox Jews as “stinkin cockroaches.”

There is no direct line from seeking to undermine yeshivas and seeing Hasidic Jews as tar-gets for physical violence. Stu-pid thugs don’t know a yeshiva from a yurt.

And there is no direct line, either, between those who don’t want Jews moving into their towns and jerks who take plea-sure in knocking off Jews’ hats or punching them.

But people who promote the perception of Orthodox Jews as “the other” add to a nebulous but very real animus against such Jews. b

The views and opinions ex-pressed in this article are those of the author and do not neces-sarily reflect the views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

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people are a nation. Israel is our state. Had Israel existed in 1939, as the Zionists and the doomed Jews of Europe had hoped, there never would have been a Holocaust.

To prevent a new Holocaust in a world still drenched in Jew-hatred, the reconstituted Jewish state must be defended. Israeli leaders and citizens and supporters of Israel worldwide must stand up to liars and de-

ceivers who create convenient myths about Jewish identity that conform to their prejudices and lifestyle choices. If we do these things, this week’s events will pave the way to more triumphs.

If we fail to do these things, if we take this week’s events for granted, then 10 years hence we will not remember the con-ference at Yad Vashem as the moment that rendered Obama’s anti-Semitic screed in Cairo

an insignificant historical foot-note. Instead, we will view his speech as a turning point, and this week’s conference as an insignificant blip on the screen of history. b

C a ro l i n e G l i c k i s a n award-winning columnist and author of “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.”

This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.

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Woman Charged with Hate Crime for Throwing Pork Chops at Upstate NY Synagogue

(JTA) — An upstate New York woman has been charged with a hate crime for throwing piec-es of pork at a local synagogue.

Tara Rios, 47, of Hudson, was arraigned in Livingston Town

Court on Saturday and charged with first-degree harassment as a hate crime, according to local reports.

Rios went to Congregation Anshe Emeth in Greenport on

Jan. 19 and threw a package of pork chops on its front steps, CBS 6 Albany reported. She returned to the synagogue at 3 a.m. to photograph her actions, police said.

She was released on her own recognizance and is scheduled to return to court on Monday.

“These acts caused the mem-bership of Congregation Anshe Emeth to be in reasonable fear

of further anti-Semitic acts which could result in physical injury,” according to the crim-inal complaint filed by state police, Columbia-Greene Media reported. b

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