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Reflections on the New Year

Any assessment of the posi-tion of the Jewish community in North America as the year 5781 opens is disturbingly contradictory.

To be sure, were it not for COVID-19 synagogues would be filled to capacity for Rosh Hashanah services, even those which often find it difficult to gather a minyan for daily services. Charitable organiza-tions have developed sophisticated techniques to attract multitudes of patrons to sumptuous - and expen-sive - fundraising dinners. Dozens of Jewish writers are dedicating themselves to important Jewish subjects and even those who only skim the surface of Jewish life often have important stories to tell. While the Jewish community has not pro-duced any Bachs, Mozarts or Beethovens Jews have long been among the West’s most noted con-temporary composers and are included among the most skilled per formers of great music. Financial pages and television screens regularly provide full coverage of multimillionaire Jews, many of them among the West’s most notable philan-thropists. And medical experts being asked for their opinions on the current pandemic are often renowned Jewish infec-tious disease specialists devot-ing their time and expertise to the saving of lives.

And so even if the snake of white skinned racists like Travis Patron has not been totally scotched”, even if Jews approach the New Year knowing that “man is born to sorrow as the sparks fly upward”, it still appears to most Jews that “god’s in his heaven and, all’s right with the world.” But be-

neath this veneer of complacency the danger of internal disintegration lingers. Despite what would have been packed synagogues during the High Holidays, despite the prolifera-tion of organizations providing “safety nets” to protect Jews from the vicissitudes of everyday life, too few among us feel it necessary to engage in the battle for Jewish survival and Jewish institutions are largely unsuccessful in reduc-ing the rate of attrition stemming the will of the Jewish community to preserve itself. Jews may still turn their attention to the disas-ter of the Holocaust. But even those who mourn the loss of Jewish life do not seem impelled to put in the effort to help preserve the rich Jewish traditions that survived the raw carnage of the Nazis. And while loyalty to Israel’s survival remains undimin-ished, many North American Jews finding it increasingly difficult to embrace a nation which gives far too much power to a small minori-ty who dismiss Reform and Conservative Jews Christians in disguise.

North American Jewry could be a powerful source for the preservation of those values which have shaped Western civilization. But it must be acknowledged that Canadian and American Jewry, despite their integra-tion into the national life of their com-munities, are only tangentially involved in the struggle to ensure Jewish survival and to transmit to the non-Jewish world the traditions bequeathed to them by their patri-archs and prophets. The battle to ensure that Diaspora Jewry does not flounder on the shoal of indifference is far from won.

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Kamala Harris’ Jewish Family

“My family means everything to me”, Sen. Kamala Harris said in her first speech as Joe Biden’s running mate. “And I’ve had a lot of titles over my career, and certainly vice-

president will be great, but ’momala’ will always be the one that means the most”.

Kamela Harris’ hus-band Douglas Emhoff, an entertainment lawyer in California, has two sons

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from his previous marriage. It was they, knowingly or otherwise, who gave their

stepmother the nickname “mamele”, that term of endearment for moms.

Harris and Emhoff met in 2013 on a blind date. When Emhoff texted Harris that he was at a Lakers game, Harris somewhat embarrassingly answered “Go Lakers”, even though she later admitted that she was a Golden State Warriors fan.

The couple hit it off almost instantly. They were married in 2014 in a wed-ding that incorporated Jewish and Indian tradi-tions. Emhoff broke a glass and Harris gave her new soulmate a traditional Indian garland.

Harris and Emhoff are not the only “Jewish” connection on the Democratic ticket. Joe Biden’s son Hunter, he of the rather checkered past, married Melissa Cohen in 2019 six days after they met. Cohen is a liberal and a devout Jew. The couple recently gave birth to a baby boy.

Harris and Israel

Kamala Harris’ views on Israel will do much to allay the fears of Jewish voters who worry the Democratic Party, under the influence of squadmates Cortez, Omar and Tlaib, is veering too far to the left. Harris’ views align closely with those of Joe Biden and so the ticket should give considerable comfort to the party’s Jewish supporters.

Harris has strong ties to AIPAC, the country’s largest pro-Israel lobby, and is against conditioning aid to Israel to influence its policies. She has also strongly opposed support-ing U.N. resolutions as a means of condemning Israel and has been muted in any criticism of the current Israel government. She criticized former President Barak Obama for failing to veto a UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settle-ments and then co-spon- (Please turn to page 9)

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prohibited in Judaism, as is murder. Yet among the ignorant and credulous, this absurd fabrication con-tinues to take hold.

It has been widely reported that the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented cooperation and coordination between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel has provided the Palestinian Authority with hundreds of testing kits and protective gear for health-care workers, as well as workshops with Palestinian doctors and joint monitor-ing groups to discuss meth-ods to contain the pandemic in the region. Even Nikolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, a group accused of “systemic anti-Israel bias”, has praised the excellent coordination and cooperation between the Israeli and Palestine authorities regarding the pandemic.

Yet despite this cooperation, anti-Israel incitement and libels con-tinue. In fact, some of the same people who are coordi-nating with Israel about the pandemic are also using the coronavirus as a handy hook on which to pin their anti-Israel libels and incite the Palestinian populace against Israel.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, for example, has acknowledged coordinating with Israel, establishing a joint medical committee to

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Anti-Semitic blood libels and conspiracy theo-ries often incorporate irrele-vant but true facts in order to create preposterous and defamatory accusations against Jews, which are seized upon and spread among the community, pro-viding justification for even more Jew hatred. Medieval blood libels, for example, accused the Jews of brutal-izing and murdering Christians in order to use

monitor and cooperate in the response to the pan-demic. But as Palestinian analyst Khaled Abu Toameh points out, Shtayyeh is hop-ing that the coronavirus cri-sis will boost his chance of becoming the next Palestinian Authority presi-dent and in order “to win the hearts and minds of his people, he needs to talk less about cooperation with Israel. The more he con-demns Israel, the more he increases his chances of becoming the next Palestinian rais.”

No doubt that is why Shtayyeh put forth a new libel against Israel: On March 29th, the Palestinian prime minister proclaimed that IDF soldiers were deliberately trying to infect (Please turn to page 14)


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a passing familiarity with American history. Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect Mr. Trump to know that Henry Ford was America’s worst promulgator of anti-semitism in the 1920s—for which Adolf Hitler praised him, by name, in the pages of Mein Kampf. Or that Ford accepted Nazi Germany’s highest award for foreign-ers, the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, in 1938. Still, Trump’s advisers and speechwriters have an obligation to keep him fully informed.

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(Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of The Jews Should Keep Quiet: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust, from The Jewish Publication Society in 2019.)

President Trump’s recent remark about Henry Ford’s “good bloodlines” has aroused curiosity and con-troversy. Trump actually is not the first president to subscribe to the discredited notion that there is such a thing as “good” blood and “bad” blood. But you have to go back nearly a century to find another American head of state who openly embraced such notions.

During his visit to a Ford Motor Company plant in Michigan on May 21, Mr. Trump was supposed to read from a prepared text in which he would state simply:

“The company founded by a man named Henry Ford teamed up with the compa-ny founded by Thomas Edison — that’s General Electric.”

But with Ford exec-utive chairman William C. Ford Jr., the great-grandson of Henry Ford, standing nearby, Trump turned to him and ad-libbed: “The company founded by a man

named Henry Ford--good bloodlines, good bloodlines, if you believe in that stuff. You got good blood. They teamed up with the compa-ny founded by Thomas Edison--that's General Electric. It's good stuff. That's good stuff.”

One wishes the president of the United States would have more than


struggled to keep things afloat, so he chose not to say anything, so as not to stress them out.

“In those days”, explains Steinberg, “there wasn’t any social media or support groups. Bullying was just considered the norm for kids. It took me a while to learn how to stand up for myself but eventually I did. I made myself a promise way back then, that if I ever had the oppor-tunity to help someone else going through this emotion-al trauma, I would do so.” (Please turn to page 10)

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sored a bill that challenged the right of the United nations to condemn settle-ment expansion. The liberal pro-Israel group J Street has endorsed Biden but has not backed Harris. Says JTA’s Ron Kampeas: “she’s more AIPAC Than J Street.”

Harris has not, how-ever, refrained from criticiz-ing the current Israeli gov-ernment. Like many other Democrats she is opposed to Israel’s unilateral annex-ation of parts of the West Bank, although she refused to sign a letter written by other senators stating that annexation would harm U.S.-Israel ties. She has also indicated her support for rejoining the Iran nuclear deal. “This nuclear

deal is not perfect”, she says, “but it is the best existing tool we have to pre-vent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and avoid disastrous military conflict in the Middle East.”

The Biden Harris ticket means that the Democrats will. at least for now, be spared of the antipathy towards Israel and often all too common anti-Semitic rhetoric shown by left wing activists. Biden’s disavowment of P a l e s t i n i a n - A m e r i c a n activist Linda Sarson, even though she appeared at an on-line meeting of Muslims supporting his candidacy, is certainly encouraging. “She has no role in the Biden (Please turn to page 21)

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And that, he has done. Steinberg is a volun-teer (since 2015), with the Montreal non-profit org. “Dans La Rue”, supporting homeless teens. The organi-zation has a bus that they use to make their way through the areas of Montreal, where youth at risk are hanging out. They provide them with meals and direct them to sup-port/resources, in the hope they can get them off the streets and turn their lives around.

In one of life’s ironies, early in his career Paul found himself once again a victim of bullying, this time at the hands of a boss who humiliated him on the job.

“Lots of people think bullying only happens when you are young,” Paul said. “But there is bullying in the workplace and it is far more humiliating and destructive than when you are a kid.” This time, as an adult, Paul was up for the task, so he stood up to his boss even if it meant losing his job. In the end, the best man won. Over 30 years in, he is still employed by the same establishment.

Reminiscent of Mordechai Richler’s Duddy Kravitz, Steinberg’s book, School of Hard Luck is a coming-into-wisdom story that takes place in the same era and the same Montreal neighbourhood.

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By 1997 Druckman was running the operation on his own, overseeing 26 staff and 44 feet of refriger-ated counter space, a baked goods area and a line of freezer space. From salmon teriyaki, brisket, salads, vegetables and a whole lot more, Fressers thrives for many reasons, including the fact you can pick up healthy homemade meals ready to heat up at home. They also have a regular drop in crowd who come for a good sandwich and side for lunch. Over the years Druckman has solidified the catering division. He has plenty of New Year specials. Go to https://fressers.ca.

JEWISH RESTAU-RATEUR SCORES AGAIN: At the age of 40, Jonathan Dresner is quite the Jewish entrepreneur. After gradu-ating from Concordia University with a business degree, he tried his luck at a number of jobs and eventu-ally made the plunge into restaurants, operating some Quiznos franchises in Montreal and became part of a startup called Kupfert & Kim. He’s also a partner in the Hello 123, a plant-based restaurant and bar. Dresner’s masterpiece was Notre Boeuf De Grâce, born in 2015 in NDG. It has since grown to nine locations. After opening an NBG downtown, he started some-thing called the Pigeon Expresso Bar next door. This past summer he struck

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Palestinians with coron-avirus. “This is racism and hatred of people who long for the death of the other,” he said. “We will record this in the list of crimes [against Israel.”

Based on a video clip showing a soldier spitting on the ground while on a patrol in Hebron, Shtayyeh exaggerated, supplemented and distorted the crude and juvenile action of one Israeli soldier into a full blown libel against Israel.

PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat echoed and broadened the libel by attributing the spreading of Covid-19 to Israeli settlers: “…The settler gangs go wild, the latest example of which is…the spitting on Palestinian cars and prop-erty in order to transfer the corona disease to them… all of these are expressions of the spirit of hate taking root, the spread of the incitement to racism, and the wild desire to get rid of

the Palestinian people in any way…”

PA spokesman Ibrahim Melhem has report-edly spoken about his coop-eration with the Israelis sev-eral times during press briefings. But that did not stop him from readily accepting and helping pro-mote the libel against Israel, at least for the consumption of the Palestinian people. He is quoted in an article in the official PA daily as saying:

“It is not strange that the settlers and occu-pation soldiers are doing acts such as these [trying to infect Palestinian property], as they are striving for the epidemic’s spread in Palestine. In addition, they are attempting to approach our laborers and mingle with them in order to trans-fer the disease to them.”

A similar libel con-cerns Palestinian workers returning from Israel to their homes in the West Bank, although this was at

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the behest of PLO Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh. In fact, Israel had given Palestinians workers the choice of remaining inside Israel for up to two months, and requiring their employers to arrange a place for them to live. It was the Palestinian prime minister who insisted that “all Palestinian labor-ers return to their homes” from Israel in order to “pro-tect them and preserve their well-being.” Still, Fatah and the PA latched onto this to create a new libel. Under the banner, “Israel launches a biological war against Palestine” Fatah, on its offi-cial Facebook page, accused Israel of using the returning Palestinian workers as carri-ers to infect the Palestinian population with Covid-19.

For Palestinian lead-ers, the blood libel is a cali-brated tool in their balanc-ing act of portraying Israel as an evil, blood-thirsty villain while still depend-

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Such attitudes extended even to the White House. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in 1897—just a few years before he became president—that it was important to “keep for the white race the best portion of the new world’s sur-face.” He insisted it was the responsibility of “Anglo-Saxon women” to bear children “numerous enough so that the race shall increase and not decrease.”

Woodrow Wilson wrote a book in 1902 in which he warned that “men of the lowest class” from Italy and “of the meaner sort” from Hungary and Poland, were “men out of the ranks where there was neither skill nor energy nor any initiative of quick intel-ligence; and they came in the numbers which increased from year to year, as if the countries of the south of Europe were dis-burdening themselves of

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There is “a funda-mental, eternal, inescapable difference” between the races,

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question, however, pertains to President Trump’s refer-ences to “good blood.” Granted, he inserted the caveat, “if you believe in that stuff.” But the very fact that he brought it up, unprovoked—and the fact that he has made similar remarks in the past—sug-gests that he, for one, does “believe in that stuff.”

In 2016, Mr. Trump told British business lead-ers that they have “good bloodlines” and “amazing DNA.” At a rally in Mississippi that year, he said, “I have great genes and all that stuff, which I’m a believer in.” In a 2014 documentary, he said, “I’m proud to have that German blood, there’s no question about it. Great stuff.”

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vent our Nordic population being overrun by the lower races,” Senator David A. Reed, one of the authors of the restrictive legislation, asserted in a New York Times op-ed. “The racial composition of America at the present time thus is made permanent.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt shared these sentiments. In the 1920s, he wrote articles warning that “the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results.” He asserted that America should welcome European immigrants who possessed “blood of the right sort.” In 1939, as president, he pri-vately boasted to a Senate ally that “we know there is no Jewish blood in our veins.”

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After a four month investigation the Palm Beach County School Board fired Latson from his job as principal of the Spanish River Community High school.

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where she attended the Goldwater Hall boarding school. She continued to focus on her tennis career as a teenager but when she applied to the Cumberland Lawn Tennis Club in Hampstead her application was denied. The club made it abundantly clear that it did not take Jews as mem-bers.

Buxton was a gold medal at the Maccabiah Games in 1953 and was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall in Netanya in 1981. Ban on Shofar Blowing Lifted

The British govern-ment will now allow wind instruments such as sho-fars to be blown in places of worship for congregational leaders, although not for congregants. The govern-ment recommends that all instruments be cleaned before and after use and permits small groups of singers to perform in front of worshippers, even indoors, but with no audi-ence participation.

“This will be wel-come news all across the Jewish community”, said

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Britain’s Reform movement, however, is advising all shuls to find alternatives to in person gatherings during the High Holy Days, warning against a “two tier system” favour-ing non-vulnerable mem-bers. A spokesman for the movement said that “we are particularly motivated by not wishing to spread the disease, in awareness of the limits of social distancing with such big numbers for the High Holy Days, and also not wishing to create a two-tier system where some members are able to attend in person and more vulner-able community members can only follow online.”

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In the past Jews have kept a low profile in the UAE. But that is changing. In June the UAE’s Jewish community released a prayer in Hebrew in honor of the leaders of the country. Then over a hundred Dubai Jews attended the biggest virtual Shabbat gathering the Arab world has ever seen. Authorities have given the country’s Jews permission to open synagogues. “A few months ago,” says Wolf, “some might have had an issue if you were seen walk-ing inside a mall with a yarmulke on your head” but now “there is no issue with that whatsoever. You see ultra-Orthodox Jews walk-ing around the street with a

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The country’s Jews are now looking forward to visiting Israel and to wel-coming Israeli tourists. And Wolf adds that there are also economic opportunities awaiting Israelis. “Dubai is an emirate with a lot of money”, he says. “Israel is a country with vast techno-logical accomplishments in agriculture, medicine, high-tech, cyber. Israel has many things for which they will find buyers here.”


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