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CONNECTICUT JEWISH LEDGER | SINCE 1929 | DECEMBER 4, 2020 | 18 KISLEV 5781

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19 Crossword

20 Torah Portion

22 What’s Happening

22 Bulletin Board

Facebook Flub....................................................................... 5 In October, Facebook announced that it was banning Holocaust denial and distortion across its platforms, including Instagram. Then why is it still so easy to find?

Secret Keeping...................................................................... 5 The rumored visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman comes as Israel is ramping up ties with the UAE and Bahrain – Iran may also be in the picture. But no one’s talking.

28 Obituaries

29 Business and Professional Directory

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Tumultuous times......................... 8 David Dinkins, New York City’s first Black mayor, was known for – and dogged by – his response to the 1991 riots in the Black and Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. He died last week at the age of 93.

The Lessons of Nuremberg...... 10 On the 75th anniversary of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, whose father was a prosecutor at the Trials, spoke about the trial and the fight for human rights that still lies ahead.

Teen Angels.................................... 12 Members of Hartford’s Jewish teen group JTConnect, got ready for the Thanksgiving holiday through a series of volunteer activities that helped those in need throughout Greater Hartford.

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Six weeks ago, Facebook announced a ban on Holocaust denial. It’s still easy to find.

The subtext of the secretive meeting between America, Israel and Saudi Arabia

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(JTA) – As of Wednesday afternoon, one of the first results in a Facebook search for “Holohoax” – a term popular with Holocaust deniers – was a post decrying “Zionist White Jewish Supremacist Child murdering Apartheid State, Talmudic Satanic Holohoax promoters.” Right below it was a video, posted by a group with more than 6,000 followers, captioned “Research: Holohoax and Jew world order.” These results showed up six weeks after Facebook announced that it was banning Holocaust denial and distortion across its platforms, including Instagram. When it made the announcement, the company pledged that it would direct users to resources that provide credible information about the Holocaust. Those resources have yet to appear on the site. In contrast, similar resources do appear on searches for the QAnon conspiracy theory, which Facebook announced it would ban approximately one week before announcing the ban on Holocaust denial. And QAnon groups appear to have been removed after that announcement. It’s not just “Holohoax.” A page for the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaustdenying organization masquerading as an

academic center, is active and has more than 1,000 likes as of Wednesday afternoon. A recent post on the page links to an article titled, “Israel’s power is unlimited.” A post from earlier this month laments the “great loss of life and terrible suffering endured by the German people during the Second World War.” A box on the side of that page labeled “Related Pages” directs users to several pages that either deny the Holocaust or spew blatantly antisemitic rhetoric. The Institute for Historical Review group and its related pages were first reported by the tech publication The Markup. One, with 531 likes, is called “Goy Lives Matter” and features a stream of blatantly antisemitic posts and links. One example is a link to a website purporting to give information about the “The Jewish Ethnic Cleansing Of Europeans.” “Goy,” a Hebrew term that means non-Jew, has been appropriated by white supremacists. Another far more popular page, with more than 11,000 likes, is called “Open Borders for Israel,” a trolling phrase that has become a slogan among white supremacists. The slogan implies that Jews are hypocritical because white supremacists believe Jews are trying to flood America

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with non-white immigrants, but Israel does not have a liberal immigration policy. A version of the page’s logo includes Pepe the Frog, a cartoon appropriated by white supremacists. One of its posts is a meme featuring a visibly Jewish man saying “America is a nation of immigrants” and then, when someone asks him why Israel doesn’t absorb refugees, responding, “You’re being antisemitic.” Another post featuring a picture of Harvey Weinstein saying, “Israel won’t need to open its borders to the world to let Weinstein in. It only lets Jews in.” The pages and posts – and others like them – show that more than a month after it pledged to remove content that denies or distorts the Holocaust, Facebook has yet to do so. The persistence of Holocaust denial on Facebook underscores the challenge social media giants face as they try to fulfill recent pledges to root out hate and misinformation from their platforms. Spokespeople for Facebook, as well as a Jewish organization that’s working with it on these issues, say the social media giant is working hard to implement the policy. But they caution that it will take more time to refine artificial intelligence tools and create training materials for human moderators that can assist in recognizing Holocaust denial. A spokesperson for Facebook said the company catches the vast majority of hate speech on the platform. The spokesperson told JTA that the company has 15,000 people reviewing content to monitor for hate speech and other violations. According to the company’s data, Facebook detects 95% of hate speech posts before users report them. And another recent report by the company says that from July to September, hate speech accounted for only 10 or 11 out of every 10,000 times someone viewed content on Facebook. (Given the billions of users Facebook has, that still results in a potentially enormous number of people viewing hate speech.) “Detecting hate speech is not only a difficult challenge, it’s an evolving one,” the spokesperson wrote. “A new piece of

(JNS) The private jet that took off from Israel on Sunday, Nov. 22 and banked south towards Saudi Arabia may have had some important passengers on board, but no one is talking about it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad director Yossi Cohen reportedly met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman while U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was visiting the kingdom. Netanyahu was reluctant to admit his presence at the meeting, saying, “I never talked about these kinds of things, and I will not start now. I’m committed to strengthening Israel.” The visit by Netanyahu comes as Israel is ramping up ties with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Last week, Bahrain’s foreign minister made his first official visit to Israel, and Netanyahu is reportedly going to visit the UAE and Bahrain soon. Why the sudden flurry of activity, and why did the trip to Saudi Arabia need to be so secretive? Joshua Krasna, an expert on strategic and political developments in the Arab world at the Moshe Dayan Center, as well as a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told JNS that while the common denominator is the issue of stopping Iran’s path to nuclear weapons, other important issues remain at play here. “The issue here is mostly the United States,” he said. “Both Netanyahu and MBS were key – and high-profile allies of Trump – and made it clear until very late in the game when they, not very convincingly, tried to adopt an air of ‘neutrality’ that they preferred his re-election.” According to Krasna, this was the reason MBS and Netanyahu met with Pompeo. “They need to consult on how to jointly deal with an administration that

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hate speech might not resemble previous examples because it references a new trend or some new news story. We’ve built new tools so they can scale to future challenges as well as present ones. With more flexible and adaptive [artificial intelligence], we’re confident we can continue to make real progress.” The spokesperson said the company has no further information on when or how it will direct users to credible external materials about the Holocaust. Facebook likewise said it would not detail its training materials or criteria for determining what constitutes Holocaust denial, out of concern that that would allow bigots to “game the system.” Facebook’s “Community Standards” likewise do not specify what counts as Holocaust denial or distortion. Facebook has been more active on enforcing at least one other recently announced policy. On October 6, six days before it banned Holocaust denial, Facebook banned groups and pages promoting QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory with antisemitic overtones. Just 15 days later, the company announced that it had put links in place to credible information that users now see when they search for QAnon. No such links exist, as of yet, regarding Holocaust denial. That Facebook is banning Holocaust denial at all is itself a major shift. Two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg told the tech publication Recode that he saw Holocaust denial as a lack of knowledge as opposed to an intentional expression of antisemitism. “I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong,” he said. Zuckerberg’s statement sparked an outcry among Holocaust scholars. Earlier this year, a coalition of civil rights groups led by the Anti-Defamation League and NAACP organized a boycott of Facebook ads that grew to include more than 1,000 companies. Now, in the face of that activism as well as studies showing that antisemitism is rising while knowledge of the Holocaust is decreasing, Facebook has done an aboutface. The company ‘now views Holocaust denial as willful antisemitism. And before announcing the ban on Holocaust denial, Facebook said it had banned more than 250 white supremacist groups. “Denying the Holocaust is not just getting your facts wrong,” Monika Bickert, Facebook’s head of global policy management, said in a video interview last month with the World Jewish Congress. “We know that Holocaust denial is used as a way to actually attack and stoke hatred against Jewish people.” Yfat Barak-Cheney, an official at the 6

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World Jewish Congress who has worked closely with Facebook on the Holocaust denial policy, said she believes the company is sincere about banning Holocaust denial. She expects the policy to be fleshed out, at the soonest, in a few months, and says her organization is in near-daily consultation with Facebook about it. “I think it’s a bit early to make these reports and look into this,” said BarakCheney, the World Jewish Congress’ director of international affairs. “The announcement is there. It’s not something they are trying to avoid doing. They are very serious about it. They’re definitely dedicating resources to it.” As the election season heated up earlier this year and public pressure mounted on tech companies to confront hate and misinformation, several large social media sites announced bans on conspiracy theories or different forms of bigotry. Earlier in the year, along with banning QAnon, Facebook also said it was cracking down on other antisemitic conspiracy theories. TikTok banned white supremacist content in October. YouTube banned QAnon in October as well. In response to the stepped-up action against hate groups, many far-right activists moved their center of activity to Telegram, an encrypted messaging and social media app, and more recently to Parler, which bills itself as a social network without restrictions on speech. In October, Twitter also said it would be banning Holocaust denial – though two weeks later, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told a Senate hearing, regarding Holocaust denial, that “we don’t have a policy against that type of misleading information.” And Facebook’s policies don’t always result in blocking haters from the site. According to a recent report by two groups that monitor extremism, Facebook and Instagram “directly host neo-Nazi networks with over 80,000 followers,” some of whom use the site to see merchandise. After the report was covered in the Guardian, Facebook said it removed the neo-Nazis. “For too long Facebook has chosen to respond to hate on their platform only when there is enough public outcry over it,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted about the report. “Case in point: Facebook knowingly hosted this neo-Nazi network for years.” But Barak-Cheney said that the problem was one she expected Facebook to tackle. While she doubts that Facebook will be able to detect all Holocaust denial, she expects the platform to find and prohibit “most of it.” “It’s hard to detect, and it changes all the time,” she said. “All of it is going to be hard, but it’s not going to be a static policy.”

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will be less forgiving for Israel, and perhaps even hostile, for Saudi Arabia,” he said. With Iran the main concern of both countries, Krasna said MBS and Netanyahu “may need to revive and re-tool the joint, active anti-JCPOA political and information campaign from 2015 in the U.S. against the possibility of an Iranian and U.S. willingness to return to the agreement.” Krasna said Netanyahu “may have thought that he could rush the Saudi timeframe on formalizing relations, which doesn’t seem to have worked.”

‘Three countries coordinated regarding threats from Iran’ Yoel Guzansky, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies, was slightly more cynical. He told JNS that Netanyahu is pressuring the Bahrainis and Emirates because he needs the photo op for any upcoming Israeli elections, of which there is currently speculation. On Facebook, Guzansky posted that the meeting between the three leaders “did not occur in a vacuum.” “For some time now, Riyadh has been preparing the ground in various ways for the possibility of normalizing its relations with Israel, and it is now considering possible prices and conditions, and the appropriate manner and timing,” he wrote. With regard to Iran, Guzansky said the meeting “sends a message that the three countries are coordinated regarding the threats from Iran and the possibility of heightening the measures against it in what remains of the Trump presidency.” According to Guzansky, Israel and the Gulf states fear that the United States under a Biden administration will work to reduce the sanctions pressure on Iran and even return to the 2015 nuclear deal without taking into account their concerns, “and

therefore, they seek to be involved in any possible U.S.-Iran negotiations.” In a recent meeting he had in the Gulf, Guzansky said senior officials there told him that “we need to be on the same page.” By appointing former Obama officials to key positions, Biden has seemingly made it clear he plans to return, at least to some extent, to the policies of the that administration. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has previously said that the administration would likely keep sanctions on Iran in place. However, it’s no secret Biden has been critical of Trump leaving the deal and will likely seek ways to eventually re-enter or re-negotiate it. Based on this, Guzansky believes MBS should take steps to prepare for a Biden administration and should wait before making any further gestures towards Israel with regard to normalization or even a surface partnership against Tehran. “If I were MBS, he said, “I would wait a few months until the next administration enters the White House.” “Israel wants to normalize with everyone,” he added. “We are not the question. The question is what price the Saudis will demand and what Biden will be willing to give. I am not sure Biden is willing to give as much as Trump did.” He noted the Saudis “enjoyed an intimate relationship with the Trump administration,” but pointed out that with an incoming Biden administration, “it will be a totally different story now.”

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administration, specifically Pompeo, may want to take action against Iran in the little time it has left. “Perhaps the visit was aimed at a more specific and concrete goal of consulting on the advisability of such an action [or

receiving updates],” he suggested. “In that case, the exposure of the meeting’s existence would make little sense.” Krasna noted that there is also a political aspect at play with regard to the alleged meeting, saying Netanyahu “wanted to deflect public attention” from Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s announcement on Sunday that he is appointing a committee of inquiry into the submarine issue. Netanyahu is currently under investigation in Israel over three cases of possible bribery and corruption. A fourth case, known as Case 3000, involves allegations of a potentially massive bribery scheme around Israel’s purchase of submarines from German shipbuilder Thyssenkrupp. Krasna said that by keeping the meeting secret, the prime minister may have wanted to portray himself as “a diplomatic highroller while again leaving his partners/rivals in the dark.” If Netanyahu does make the trip to Bahrain this week, it “makes sense with the opening of diplomatic relations and also serves the political agenda,” said Krasna, “especially if he didn’t get quite what he wanted from Saudi Arabia.”

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(JTA) – David Dinkins, the first Black mayor of New York City, died at age 93 on Monday, Nov. 23, nearly three decades after losing a reelection bid in part over his response to riots in a Black and Hasidic Orthodox neighborhood of Brooklyn. Dinkins was born in Trenton, New Jersey and entered New York City politics after graduating law school. Elected in 1989 as New York City was enduring high levels of crime and interracial strife, Dinkins promised to bring healing and reconciliation to the city. But a series of violent acts raised pressure on him, which came to a head in 1991 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. That August, a car in the motorcade of Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Rebbe, accidentally struck and killed a Black sevenyear-old named Gavin Cato. Hours later, amid outrage over Cato’s death, a group of Black men in the neighborhood murdered Yankel Rosenbaum, a Lubavitch rabbinical student. The deaths touched off days of rioting in the neighborhood in which more than 200 people were injured and more than 150 arrested. Critics charged that Dinkins restrained the police, allowing rioters to harm Crown Heights’ Jews. The criticism followed Dinkins for years after the riots and was the subject of an investigation by New York state as well as a federal class action suit filed by members of the Crown Heights Jewish community. The suit alleged that Dinkins allowed rioters to “vent their rage over [Cato’s death] at the expense of the lives and property of Jews and other non-blacks present in the Crown Heights community.” It also alleged that city officials gave tacit approval to the “murderous, antisemitic rampage which engulfed the Brooklyn community of Crown Heights for four days.” On a 1993 visit to Israel, Dinkins met protests, and Avi Weiss, the outspoken New York City Orthodox rabbi and activist, charged him with allowing a “pogrom.” The criticism did not subside even as Dinkins defended his actions and continued to engage with the Jewish community. He had visited Rosenbaum on his deathbed and had urged calm, and denied that he had restrained police. He attributed the criticism to his race. “There is not a single shred of evidence that I held the [New York Police Department] back – and there never will be,” Dinkins said in a speech at the Jewish Theological Seminary more than a year after

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the riots. He said some of his critics “see everything through an ethnic prism.” But the response to the riots contributed to Dinkins’ election loss to Rudy Giuliani in 1993. In three Brooklyn Hasidic neighborhoods – Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Borough Park – approximately 97% of voters backed Giuliani. The controversy over Dinkins’ response to the riots overshadowed an earlier incident when he was threatened for standing up against antisemitism. In 1985, ahead of a visit to New York City by the antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Dinkins organized a press conference denouncing Farrakhan’s ‘blatantly antisemitic” remarks. Farrakhan then threatened Dinkins, then the city clerk, during his speech. “What I’m suggesting to black people is that leaders have to begin to fear the people that they say they represent,” Farrakhan said after calling Dinkins out personally. “When the leader sells out to people, he should pay a price for that. Don’t you think so? Do you think the leader should sell out and then live?” Dinkins received a police guard following the speech. “For his courage and moral clarity, Dinkins was threatened directly by Farrakhan,” tweeted Jeremy Burton, who served as Dinkins’ deputy director of Jewish community affairs while he was mayor. “He also earned my admiration and that of many members of our community. To this day I wish that more people had Mayor Dinkins’ clarity in that moment.” Dinkins died in his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. His wife of 67 years died in October; they are survived by two children. jewishledger.com

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eventy-five years ago [on Nov. 21, 2020], Justice Robert Jackson spoke these words at the beginning of what was to be one of the most important trials in history–the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Standing beside him that day was my father, Thomas J. Dodd, who would soon become Jackson’s Executive Trial Counsel. They were setting off into an unprecedented effort to uncover the truth of what the Nazi’s had done and to hold them to account under the rule of law. Over the next 11 months, my father, Justice Jackson and the other prosecutors presented overwhelming evidence of the machinery of death and destruction, as well as the poisonous ideology of Aryan racial supremacy, which had cost the lives of tens of millions of people–including the genocide of six million Jews. These were crimes so ghastly, as Justice Jackson held in his opening address, “that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.” Nuremberg ensured those crimes would not be ignored. Through their work, not only would my father and his colleagues successfully prosecute the two dozen German leaders for their grave crimes 10

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against humanity, but they also established the key principles of human rights and equal justice. For many at Nuremberg, there was hope that these principles would help break the cycle of vengeance and destruction and put the world on the path of peace through the protection of human dignity for all. Today, that path is still before us. Brutal conflicts in Yemen and Syria; resurgent authoritarianism, racism, and antisemitism; dire migrant crises in Myanmar and on our own southern border–all amidst a devastating global pandemic–remind us that the lessons of Nuremberg must be continually relearned and that the work of protecting dignity and promoting justice are the responsibility of each generation. As we face these new challenges to human rights and democracy, I’m proud to know that the work of Justice Jackson and the prosecutors at Nuremberg, fighting for human rights and the rule of law, is carried on through the Dodd Human Rights Impact at the University of Connecticut’s Human Rights Institute. The hard work of building a culture of human rights across our country and around the world is more important than ever. If democracy is to endure at home and

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around the globe, we, too, cannot ignore the egregious injustices that plague our world. In the coming year, through the work of our scientists on a COVID-19 vaccine and with the leadership of the Biden Administration, we will emerge from the fear and isolation this pandemic has created. We will then have the responsibility to renew our commitment to the universal values of human rights, and the opportunity to not only reconstruct our democracy as it was, but build a better, more just democracy for all. Amidst the devastation and ruin of Nuremberg, my father and his colleagues sought a reckoning with the past so that a brighter future might be possible. In 2020, as we face a dark season of what we hope will be the final days of one of the most difficult chapters in American history, I know now, as then, we can rise to this historical moment and walk that path to justice.

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hanksgiving is a time for families and friends to gather and celebrate the bounty of the season, but for many in Connecticut, the holiday is a stark reminder of their strug-gle with hunger. Especially this year, when families are struggling with the financial hardship brought about by unemployment, more people then ever before are in need of a helping hand. “For years our teens have been coming together on the Sunday before Thanksgiving for a mega-pie baking event,” says JTConnect Program Director Cara Levine. “Tables and tables of teens come together to mix ingredients and bake pies. It’s really special to see so many teens committed to giving back.” This year, because of the pandemic, it wasn’t possible to bring the teens together in one place. Still, they were determined not to shelve the project. And so, on Sunday, Nov. 22, more than 80 local teens logged onto Zoom and spent the afternoon baking pies with their friends. When they were done, more than 170 pies were baked and do-nated to nine different charities. “My favorite part of the event is making the pies, even though we sometimes make a mess! It is so meaningful to bake something that you know will directly make someone happy,” Sophie Kudler, a junior at Hall High says. To give the teens a sense of just how meaningful their efforts were, a representative from Hands on Hartford’s Faces of Homelessness program spoke to the teens on Zoom as they baked,

sharing with them his personal account of homelessness and hunger. He encouraged the teens to remember that the homeless “didn’t start that way. They have families. No matter the situation, they’re still human beings. We have to val-idate their humanity. I’m a person. It happened to me.” In addition to the pie baking event, a group of JTConnect and Young Israel teens spent several hours on Sunday morning volunteering at Jewish Family Services (JFS) annu-al Thanksgiving meals and clothing distribution. The teens helped JFS distribute more than 200 holidays meals for families in need, as well as hundreds of bags filled with winter clothing. In addition, the previous week, JTConnect teens sorted mounds of food collected by the Mandell JCC for distribution by JFS. “It takes a village,” says JTConnect Executive Director Eric Maurer. “It is incredible to see organizations coming together in the spirit of giving. COVID has been especially hard on teenagers as they manage hybrid schedules at school, cancellation of events and sports seasons and the loss of social interaction. It is so inspiring that despite all the stresses they are going through, teens stay committed to giving back in a big way.” The teen volunteer projects were organized through JTConnect with support from the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford. JTConnect engages teens from throughout Greater Hartford in interactive educational and social experiences grounded in Jewish learning and values. To find out more, visit jtconnect.org.

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Briefs San Francisco-area students face antisemitic harassment online, again (JTA) – A San Francisco-area school district is taking action after Jewish students faced antisemitic harassment on social media for the second time this term. Jewish students in the Tamalpais Union High School District said accounts on Instagram and TikTok followed them and posted offensive messages, including posts that denied the Holocaust, discussed rape and included homophobic comments, according to the Marin Independent Journal. The accounts have been removed. Police are investigating and trying to find who is behind the harassment of the kind that took place in September. A petition protesting the harassment launched by a Jewish student has garnered nearly 7,000 signatures as of Friday. David Sondheim, principal of Redwood High School in the Bay Area district, wrote in a letter to the district that he was “angry and disgusted” by the harassment. “While we believe that it is likely this is the activity of one or only a few people, we again remind our community that we stand in support of our Jewish students in the face of this antisemitic hate and bigotry,” he wrote. “Hatred and bigotry from even one person is an attack on all of us and contrary to the respect for everyone we work to instill in the RHS community.”

Biden nominates Latino Jew Alejandro Mayorkas as Homeland Security secretary (JTA) – President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Alejandro Mayorkas, a Latino Jew who has emphasized the heightened threat facing American Jews, as his Homeland Security secretary on Monday. Mayorkas, 60, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama, was born in Cuba to a Cuban Jewish father and Romanian Jewish mother. His mother survived the Holocaust. As deputy secretary, Mayorkas worked closely with Jewish groups and spoke often about the specific threats facing American Jews. Speaking in 2016 to the annual Washington conference of the Orthodox Union about nonprofit security grants, Mayorkas said, “The need is most acute in the Jewish community because of the ascension of antisemitism and hate crimes we see.” Among the things that “keep me up at night,” Mayorkas said at the time, was the threat to “my community,” the Jewish community. “I come from a tradition of a lack of security instilled in me as a very 14

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young person,” said Mayorkas, whose parents had moved to Cuba after marrying, then the United States following the revolution there. Mayorkas is a board member of HIAS, the Jewish immigration advocacy group. “Ali has consistently demonstrated that he is not only a strong and highly respected leader, but an empathetic one who knows the heart of the stranger, as the child of a Holocaust survivor, as a Latino, and as a refugee and immigrant himself,” said Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS, in a statement. Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant nominated to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security.

province’s ban on gatherings would be allowed during Chanukah, which this year runs Dec. 10-18, Legault said no. That response is drawing criticism from Canadian Jewish groups. “Premier Legault has not addressed the concerns and needs of several minority groups in Quebec, including the Jewish community,” said Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, said in a statement Friday, Nov. 20. “The Quebec government must take the needs of minority communities, including the Jewish community, into consideration, and work proactively with these communities prior to the lifting or imposition of unilateral COVID-19 restrictions. The Premier must be the premier of all Quebecers.”

Netanyahu reportedly met with Saudi crown prince in Saudi Arabia

Palestinian official says salaries for terrorists will continue

(JTA) – In what would be a first, the Israeli media is reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Saudi Arabia for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The meeting Sunday, Nov. 22, included U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and focused on Pompeo’s agenda of furthering Iran’s isolation before President Donald Trump transfers power to his successor, Joe Biden. Yossi Cohen, the chief of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, also was present, according to the reports. Bin Salman is seen as Saudi Arabia’s effective ruler. The Saudi foreign minister, Faisal bin Farhan, denied the reports on Monday. Israeli reporters tracking flights identified a flight from Israel to Noem, a major Saudi coastal city, where the meeting purportedly took place. Netanyahu and bin Salman fear Biden will be more accommodating toward Iran. The reports of the meeting come after the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan have launched normalization agreements with Israel brokered by the Trump administration.

(JNS) A Palestinian Authority official told The New York Times on Nov. 21 that the P.A. would be changing its policy of rewarding terrorists with salaries based on the length of their prison sentence, and instead provide money on the basis of the needs of each individual terrorist’s family. However, Palestinian Media Watch reported on Sunday, Nov. 22, that the same official – director of Palestinian [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr – had expressed the opposite sentiment two days earlier in Arabic in the U.K.-based publication Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. In the news outlet, he asserted that the practice of paying salaries to imprisoned and released terrorists, as well as to the families of dead terrorist “martyrs,” will continue unabated regardless of outside pressure. According to PMW, a similar message about the P.A. “pay for slay” policy – that the salaries to terrorist families “are non-negotiable”–was quoted on Fatah’s Facebook page on Nov. 19.

Quebec to allow gatherings during Christmas, but not Chanukah The plan would permit Quebecers to have gatherings of up to 10 people per day for four days in late December, in a concession to the fact that families would likely gather even as COVID-19 cases surge. Premier François Legault said Dec. 24-27 was chosen to allow residents to quarantine before and after without disrupting school and work schedules. But he also said he believed that Quebecers craved time with their families and that allowing them to come together would give them hope during a dark time. “Christmas, the holidays, is a time of year that’s precious, and let’s remember that family is the basis of our lives,” he said last week. Asked whether any exceptions to the

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Two Israeli authors among ‘NY Times’ list of ‘100 Notable Books of 2020’ (Israel Hayom via JNS) The New York Times has included works by two Israeli authors in its 100 Notable Books of 2020 list: Yishai Sarid, the son of the late Meretz lawmaker Yossi Sarid, for his book The Memory Monster, and A.B. Yehoshua for his book The Tunnel. Asked how he felt about being included in the list, Yehoshua said “since the age of 30, I have been saying this, and I will say it when I’m 84. From my standpoint, the most important thing is the reviews in Israel and the reading of my books here. Reviews in reputed newspapers like Le Monde, The Guardian and The New York Times are less important to me than a review in Israel Hayom and other newspapers in Israel.” Beyond that, he continued, “greater and more important names in Hebrew literature

have not been included in the list, and they are still considered very important in the context of the State of Israel. … The focus of literature is its country and its home.” Sarid said he was surprised to learn that The Memory Monster had been included in the list. “I didn’t know about it until a friend in Israel told me, and then my publisher in the U.S. also sent me an email updating me,” he said. “Tens of thousands of authors contend for the list each year, and that’s why it’s a really nice achievement for me. He said the book’s inclusion was “confirmation that my books don’t speak only to an Israeli audience but to other audiences around the world. Every author always wants to address new audiences, and that’s why it’s [given me] a sense of satisfaction. Nevertheless, what made me the happiest was being on the same list as A.B. Yehoshua, who is one of the greatest Israeli authors, and whom I admire. It’s a really big honor.”

Pollard on making aliyah: ‘God willing, very soon!’ (Israel Hayom via JNS) Five years after his release on parole and two days after his travel restrictions ended, Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard released a statement on his next steps, tempering expectations of a rapid relocation to Israel. “Thirty years ago, my beloved wife Esther found her way into USP Marion, the highest security prison in the United States, where I was languishing in a dungeon cell three stories underground behind 13 locks and keys. Esther reached out and cut the shackles off of my heart and restored my soul to life. That is when the fight for my freedom began in earnest,” he said in a statement through the Justice for Jonathan Pollard committee. “The final step to freedom that remains is our return home to the Land and the People we love. God willing, very soon!” Pollard’s conviction of espionage for Israel some 35 years ago, while working as a naval intelligence officer, strained relations between Israel and the United States. His imprisonment led to a long campaign to have him released, including through repeated appeals for clemency by Israeli leaders to U.S. presidents. He was granted Israeli citizenship after his conviction. In his statement, Pollard said he and his wife were “overwhelmed with gratitude and we want to thank all of the wonderful people in Israel and in the U.S. from the bottom of our hearts who fought for us throughout all of the long years on the road to freedom.” He said that due to his wife’s “dire medical situation” the couple would stay in the United States for a time, “calmly and quietly arranging our aliyah to Israel and assuring Esther’s on-going medical

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Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel, I made it out of…titanium? HORST ENGINEERING CREATES LIMITED-EDITION DREIDELS OUT OF AIRCRAFT GRADE MATERIALS BY STACEY DRESNER

orst Engineering in East Hartford manufactures highprecision metal hardware components for global clients like the Collins aerospace division of Raytheon and General Electric Aviation. The company manufactures bolts, screws, studs, tie rods, nuts – among many other products – using materials like aluminum, stainless steel, titanium, and high temperature alloys and polymers. Horst parts can be found in a variety of aircraft systems in commercial aircraft flown every day. The multi-million dollar company’s slogan is “We Lift You Up.” Now Horst Engineering has diversified, using its premium materials to manufacture another sleek, high-tech, precision metal product – The Horst Dreidel. The limited edition Horst Dreidel comes in aluminum, stainless steel or titanium, and is offered in three colors: blue, orange and gold. Each comes in a carrying pouch with a serial numbered certificate of conformance. Horst’s website even has its own “dreidel” page, with videos explaining the history of the dreidel and how to play dreidel, as well as a recording of “The Dreidel Song” with written lyrics.

The company first made a batch of dreidels three years ago as a giveaway at a Horst Family Day – an event held every three years for employees and their families. But now, as the coronavirus has grounded much of the commercial airline industry, Horst CEO Scott Livingston says that making dreidels has kept some of Horst’s idle machines busy. “We do a large amount of defense business but we do an even larger amount of commercial airspace business and that is where the pain is being felt right now,” he told the Ledger. “We definitely have a little bit more capacity than we have had in the past few years. We didn’t have the time to do this up until February or March, so, yeah now there’s a little bit of machine time.” Three months ago the company began churning out several hundred of the colorful Horst dreidels. “This project could easily become a distraction when we have so many other worries going on,” Livingston said, “but it was a fun little project to do in a year where we could use a little joy.”

A design challenge Over the years, Horst has designed and manufactured a number of small products to give away at its fun-filled Family Day

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events. Livingston says these aren’t just gifts, they are also a way to showcase what the company does. As he was giving family members tours of the factory and its machinery, Livingston had realized that it wasn’t easy for the children to understand all of the ins and outs of manufacturing Horst’s small metal components. “So we challenged our team from the first time we did one of these events to develop a product that kids can really identify with,” Livingston says. “Over the years we’ve done key chains, yo-yos, golf ball tees, little model airplanes, and tops. And then we said, ‘Well, tops are cool but how about a dreidel?” Those first dreidels were made in 2017 with materials and machinery that the company already uses. “We were demonstrating our processes, so the original design was an aircraft grade aluminum body with an aircraft grade stainless steel stem. And we wanted a twopiece design, so that way we could actually demonstrate more steps in the process… by making two pieces they were kind of modular and interchangeable, and we were able to demonstrate more of the steps. “The aluminum body is made on what we call a Swiss screw machine,” Livingston explains. “If you are familiar with fine watches, the Swiss are the best. And they became so good they built their own machines to build their tiny watch parts. These Swiss screw machines can be used to make all different types of components, including aerospace components.” The “Swiss” screw machines Horst uses now were made by a Japanese company, which has designed computer numerical control screw machines. “So our dreidels are made on a Japanese Swiss screw machine – very high tech,” he said. “The stem is made on a different screw machine. It’s ‘thread-rolled; we roll the [metal] thread, which is high strength. We form the thread and roll the knurl, which is the little diamond pattern for the grip. You never want your dreidel to slip out of your fingers, right? How many times do you use a cheap dreidel and it slips out of your finger? Well, the knurl on this dreidel is surgical quality. It’s the same equipment we use for surgical instruments. The beauty of it is that we have all this capability and it is such a wonderful way to demonstrate it.”

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Everyone at Horst’s 2017 family day event got one of their dreidels and they were a big hit. “Of all the ideas we’ve had over the years for these family day events, the dreidel was the first one that I wanted to offer [for sale to the public]. Because people saw pictures of them and said, ‘That is beautiful, how do I get one of those?’ I said, ‘Well, you’ve got to come work at Horst Engineering.’”

A long legacy Horst Engineering was founded in 1946 by Scott Livingston’s grandfather Harry. Born Horst Rolf Liebenstein in Bad Liebenstein – a spa town in Germany – he graduated from the Technische Universität Ilmenau with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. While studying, Horst also worked at several factory jobs, including an apprenticeship at a bicycle factory. There he learned skills like metalworking and tool and die. After getting his degree in 1935, Horst worked at a company manufacturing stationary bicycles and treadmills and calisthenics equipment for the local spa industry. He worked there for three years until things got so bad for the Jews that he knew he had to leave Germany. Horst’s two brothers had already left for Africa and were encouraging him to get out. “His employer was sympathetic and ultimately helped him get to the Netherlands to get a boat in Rotterdam,” Scott Livingston says. Horst’s parents, who owned a grocery store in Bad Liebenstein, would not leave and perished during the war. At 26, Horst made it to the United jewishledger.com

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THE PASSPORT HORST FOUNDER HARRY LIVINGSTON USED TO LEAVE NAZI GERMANY IN SEPTEMBER 1938 IS AMONG THE LIVINGSTON FAMILY MEMENTOS THAT SIT IN A DISPLAY CASE IN THE OFFICES OF HORST ENGINEERING.

States where he was sponsored by cousins who had changed their last name from Liebenstein to Livingston. So Horst Liebenstein became Harry Livingston. “Ultimately he was able to make his way to Hartford in 1940 to seek industry, because this was a boomtown,” says Scott Livingston. Harry married Sylvia Hurwitz, a Hartford native, and worked for a variety of companies in the Hartford area, including Whitney Chain Company, JohnsHartford Tool Company, and Colts Manufacturing Company. Between 1940 and 1946 he learned different parts of the manufacturing trade before leaving to start his own business. Harry founded Horst Engineering and Manufacturing Co. in 1946 opening up a shop in the rented second floor of a barn on Garden Street in Hartford. In 1950, with support from a great-uncle, Harry built the plant in East Hartford where it still stands today. In its early days, Horst Engineering specialized in making small parts for a broad range of industries. In the 1960s and 1970s, under the leadership of Harry’s two sons, Stanley and Steven, the company acquired several other firms and began to specialize in the aerospace parts industry. Next year Horst will celebrate its 75th anniversary by moving its 115 employees into a new, larger headquarters two jewishledger.com

miles away on Prestige Park Road in East Hartford. “That will be a huge year. You’re not talking about generational transition you’re talking about a multi-generational transition. The company has evolved over the generations,” adds Livingston. “Today we make fasteners, including bolts, screws, tie rods, pins. We make specialized aircraft clevis pins. We make bodies bushings and sleeves, all different types of small super precision aerospace components that go into aircraft engines, cabin pressure systems, propeller systems, fuel controls, landing gear.” The company also makes specialized metal parts for the bicycling industry – a connection to Harry’s time apprenticing for a bike factory in Germany in the 1920s. “A passion for cycling is in our roots,” Livingston says. Now the Horst Dreidel – which includes the newer models with stainless steel and titanium bodies – can be found on the “Shop” page of Horst’s website, along with their patented “cross spikes” made for bicycle shoes. “So we have the ability sell accessories or little items,” Livingston said, “and the dreidel is now another item in that shop,” although there are limited quantities. Horst only created 384 of the aluminum dreidels, which sell for $54; 58 of the stainless steel dreidels at $58; and 56 of the titanium dreidels, selling for $72. “Let’s put it this way,” Livingston jokes, “It isn’t going to pay for the new factory.”

(JNS) American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Foundation will premiere the “Israel Philharmonic Pre-Hanukkah Global Celebration,” a multidisciplinary program of instrumental performances and behind-the-scenes interviews, coupled with powerful messages of hope. The Dec. 6 event will stream internationally, free of charge, to bring music and holiday light from Israel’s world-class Philharmonic to audiences around the world amid the global coronavirus pandemic. The event will weave together word and song, featuring Academy Awardwinning composer Hans Zimmer; Grammy and Tony Award-winning actress and singer Bette Midler; actress and star of Fauda Ronalee Shimon; actress and model Dar Zuzovsky; music manager Kenny Hamilton; and other special guests. The Israel Philharmonic and its conductor, Lahav Shani, will perform pieces from Zimmer’s acclaimed works. “The Israel Philharmonic is a shining light for humanitarian principles, artistic freedom and the tireless pursuit of excellence – and for continuing to provide

accessible, inspiring digital musical content despite the pandemic,” said Danielle Ames Spivak, AFIPO executive vice president and CEO. Tali Gottlieb, Israel Philharmonic Foundation executive director, said “2020 has been an extremely difficult year. We are making every effort to assist the philharmonic, and I am moved by the heartwarming response of its friends in Israel and throughout the world. In an end-of-the-year effort and in light of the exceptional success of our Global Gala this past June, which was viewed by more than 500,000 people worldwide, I hope this event will provide the support it needs to grapple with the enormous challenges still ahead.” Registration is free. Donations will offset critical Philharmonic revenue losses due to forced closures due to the ongoing pandemic. Donors will receive access to a VIP after-party with Christie’s global managing director Lydia Fenet and guests, discussing “Trendsetters and Tastemakers: Culture, Art, Fashion and Design in 2021 and Beyond.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

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BY RISHE GRONER

id you know that there’s a special Chanukah tradition – Eid Al Bnat (The Festival of Daughters, in Judeo-Arabic) or Chag HaBanot (in Hebrew) – that women and girls from North Africa’s Jewish communities have been celebrating for centuries? In Jerusalem last year, I joined a group of women of Middle Eastern and North African backgrounds who gather regularly to study their heritage with an organization called Arevot. We held an inspiring Eid Al Bnat celebration, with a focus on how to bring it back into our own communities this beautiful tradition.

Origins of the holiday Celebrated on the Rosh Chodesh (New Moon) of Tevet (one of the Hebrew months where Chanukah takes place) in communities in North Africa and elsewhere, particularly the islands of Djerba and Tunis in Tunisia, Algeria, Salonika in Greece and Kushta (Istanbul) in Turkey, this day is filled with historic connections to powerful Jewish women. The festival takes the form of ceremonial gatherings featuring symbolic

rituals, delicious treats and traditional songs, all focusing on bringing together generations of mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters and the extended community. The stories of Chanukah and the ladies therein are often retold only as the story of Judith, the brave widow who fake-seduced the Greek-Syrian general Holofernes, fed him salty cheese and got him drunk on wine, then calmly beheaded him. The soldiers freaked out, the Maccabees won the battle and the rest is quite literally history. But there’s another, lesser known story of a brave woman not named except as “the daughter of the Hasmonean, Yohanan the High Priest,” who lived in Judea (AKA modern day Israel) during the time of the Maccabees. Among the anti-Jewish edicts of the time, the invading governor insisted on sleeping with every virgin woman the night before her marriage, and this carried on for almost four years. On the night of the high priest’s daughter’s marriage, as she was about to be carted off to the governor’s chamber for the night, she uncovered her hair, ripped open her clothes, and exposed herself to all. Amid cries of “send her off to be

burned!” she turned to the crowd and said something along the lines of, “Are you kidding me? You think this is me being exposed – before my brothers and friends – but it doesn’t bother you that I’m about to be exposed before this foreign invading governor, sacrificing me to him?” Her brothers, the Maccabees and Co., realized it was time to go off and kill the ruling governor. She got herself fancy and had herself escorted with dancers and musicians straight to the governor’s palace. Seeing the priestly family all caught up in this pseudo-wedding, the egomaniac governor let them right in, imagining they were handing off their daughter with voluntary joy. They utilized the opportunity to behead him and all his servants, which eventually helped bring the Maccabees to victory. The power of this woman’s vulnerability, honesty, and using her voice at just the right time is a fascinating tradition that we celebrate on this night.

How to celebrate Like every tradition that gets passed down from generation to generation, there’s

always a new flourish or nuance between how your grandma did it and how my aunt likes to do it. In some communities, women visited the synagogue (not a thing that was usually done!) and kissed the Torah scrolls and were blessed by the rabbi; in others they cooked and baked a festive meal together, and then celebrated all night. Sweet traditional foods were prepared and gifted in baskets to mothers, daughters, or mothers-in-law, prayers were shared, and songs were sung. Overall, though, the key components always include lighting the Chanukah candles, lots of music and dancing, and the opportunity to create intimacy and community with women. A song or piyyut often begins the night, followed by lighting the Chanukah candles. Piyyutim are liturgical poems written in Hebrew that are sung in incredibly complicated and deeply moving Arabic maqam (a system of melodic modes). For those of us without the ability to improvise our way through epic Hebrew poetry, you can pick out a song that is meaningful to you and that women can sing together. After

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that, the women traditionally recite a blessing of “Mi Shebeirach Imoteinu,” or, “May the One who blessed our Mothers bless us.” It’s a cool opportunity to improvise your own prayer and gratitude for the women who came before us. Next comes the chance to go around and get to know everyone. It’s beautiful to encourage every woman to name their mothers and grandmothers as well, lighting a candle for each one in the center of the table, bringing our personal histories into the circle.

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One awesome tradition is the presentation of the bat mitzvah girls of the year – it’s up to the moms and aunts to cheer, bless, and generally love up these young girls as newcomers to the women’s circle. It’s also traditional to prepare foods together, like the North African favorite sfenj – think jelly doughnuts meet churros drizzled with honey – or honey cakes and cookies, or a potluck dinner. Mishloach manot – gifting packages of food and treats – is also part of the Eid Al Bnat tradition, so the Jewish mom Tupperware buffet is a must at this party!

The power of women’s circles Since this festival is based on the stories of Judith and the daughter of Yohanan the Hasmonean, it’s important to tell, read or act out their stories, reflecting on the power of women. It’s also a good time to share the history of the holiday, passing on wisdom from generation to generation and sharing the customs across different cultures. Women’s groups have a natural intimacy, so it’s fun to find ways to connect. In Jerusalem, we played a game that asked each woman to share a tip or a gift with another, which included everything from womb meditations to honeybee secrets to how to cope with mourning a loved one. You can share poetry, songs or just the best thing your mother ever taught you. Whether you share stories, get vulnerable, cook up a storm, or dance the night away, this night is for us all to celebrate the power of the ladies in our lives, and the bonds that keep us strong in the face of struggle. This piece originally appeared in Alma.

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In the eloquent words of the author of the Derashot HaRan (Sermon 10): “When the Children of Israel are victorious against a mighty enemy, the Almighty is not concerned that they will attribute their victory to their own might. After all, the enemy was much mightier than they. He is much more concerned that, although they will concede that their victory was due to His intervention, they will credit themselves for His assistance, believing that it was their piety that caused Him to perform miracles on their behalf… Man attributes his successes to himself, one way or another.” Rabbi Bahya ben Asher comments on the verse in this week’s parasha: “We must all reflect, in our prayers, upon our own insufficiencies and deficiencies in contrast to the Master whom we serve. We deserve nothing. He owes us nothing. Whatever we receive from Him stems from His pure lovingkindness.” The successes we experience are drawn from His otzar matnat chinam, His treasure house of freely given gifts. Then we achieve “spiritual maturity.” “Spiritual maturity” also informs our personal prayers. We need the Lord’s help not only for our health, wellbeing, and material success. Additionally, we need His help to achieve “spiritual” benefits” – to control our darker passions and to become better people. We must pray for His succor as we struggle with the moral, ethical, and, yes, political challenges of our times. Rabbi Avraham Godzinsky, a Holocaust victim, said it well in an essay written shortly before his murder, posthumously published in the collection of his writings, Torat Avraham: “One must never delude himself into thinking that the spiritual aspects of his life are in his control, that he is the one who improves his behavior, that he is the one who repairs his character, since after all he has free will, and he chooses his way in life on his own. The truth is that all a person can do is to will and to commit to the good. But good actions are ultimately not in his control. Life and health are necessary for effective action, talent and skill are necessary to perform mitzvot, inner strength is necessary to overcome the evil urge. But for life and health and talent and skill, man is utterly dependent upon divine assistance.” Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb is executive vice president, emeritus of the Orthodox Union.

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Prominent rabbis pray for Ukrainian president’s recovery from COVID-19 (JTA) – Prominent rabbis from five countries prayed for the health of the president of Ukraine, Vlodymyr Zelensky, who announced two weeks ago that he had contracted the coronavirus. The prayers came from Rabbis Israel Miller at the Synagogue of Europe in Brussels; Moshe Sebbag of the Grand Synagogue of Paris; Moshe Reuven Azman, one of Ukraine’s two Orthodox chief rabbis; Shmuel Rabinovitch of the Western Wall in Jerusalem; and the chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel, Yitzhak Yosef. The rabbis each recorded video of themselves reciting prayers at their synagogues and sent the footage to Asher Gold, an Israel-based public relations professional who has worked with Zelensky’s staff. “You were here, you prayed here, and we are now praying here for you and your health,” Rabinovitch said in footage filmed at the Western Wall. Also featured in the video greeting sent to Zelensky were Rabbi Levi Duchman of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and two community leaders, Naum Koen and Solly Wolf. Zelensky’s election last year has been a source of pride for many Jews in Ukraine and beyond. Asked whether this was the reason for the prayers, Gold said it owed primarily not to Zelensky’s origins, but to how he has been “an important friend to the Jewish community in Ukraine and of the State of Israel and the fight against antiSemitism, and someone who cares deeply about the memory of the Holocaust.” In January, Zelesnky heaped unusual praise on Israel ahead of his visit there to attend a Holocaust commemoration event. “The Jews managed to build a country, to elevate it, without anything except people and brains,” he told Times of Israel. Zelensky was hospitalized last week and is reportedly recovering.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 Cooking for Chanukah with Michael Solomonov James Beard Foundation award-winning chef Michael Solomonov, executive chef and co-owner of Zahav, the 2019 James Beard Foundation award winner for Outstanding Restaurant, the first Israeli restaurant to win the award, will give a Chanukah cooking demonstration on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 8 p.m., hosted by United Jewish Federation of Greater Stamford. The menu will include Apple Shrub, Abe Fisher’s Potato Latkes, Roman Artichokes with Arugula and olive Oil, Poached Salmon and Sfenj with Cinnamon and Sugar. Recipes and ingredient list will be sent before event. Register at juf.com/solomonov, For more information, contact dianesloyer@ujf.org. Cookbook author and TV chef Ina Garten Hartford’s Mandell JCC book festival presents a Zoom webinar featuring TV food show host Ina Garten, author of Modern Comfort Food, in Conversation with comedian/actor/author Michael Ian Black, on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $45/includes copy of the book. For more information, visit mandelljcc.org/ bookfestival. Museum of Jewish Heritage to host annual benefit The Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will honor Howard and Elyse Butnick and their family at the organization’s annual Generation to Generation event, to be held on Zoom, Wednesday, Dec 2, at 7 p.m. The virtual event also will include an interview with third-generation Holocaust survivor and 22

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 Zoom lecture on Jewish entrepreneurs during Reconstruction The Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at Fairfield University presents “Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era,” a free webinar with guest speaker Michael R Cohen, PhD, chair of the Stuart and Suzanne Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience at Tulane University, on Thursday, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. Registration required at fairfield.edu/bennettprograms. For information: bennettcenter@fairfield. edu or (203) 254-4000 x2066.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 Annual Manchester Jazz Festival goes virtual 5th Annual Manchester, CT Jazz Festival, hosted by Manchester’s Beth Sholom B’nai Israel synagogue, will be held Dec. 5, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. This year’s festival will be broadcast virtually and will feature both up-and-coming and internationally recognized performers. The Festival kick’s off with the Max Dvorin Group from Nashville, Tenn. A talented woodwind doubler, Max is a graduate of Hall High School and a former member of the Hall High School Jazz Band who was invited to perform with the AllAmerican High School Band in Nashville. He will be joined will be joined by Sophia Goodman on drums,Al Janelle on guitar, Thomas Altman on bass, and David Rodgers on piano. The headliner quartet features some of the top jazz musicians in the world: Eric Alexander, tenor saxophone, Peter Bernstein, guitar, Eddie Gomez, bass and Greater Hartford area native Jonathan Barber on drums. Tickets: $20/household. To purchase tickets, visit: www.myshul.org/jazzfest2020.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 Hartford’s own Sophie Tucker the subject of book fest talk Lauran Rebecca Sklaroff will discuss her new book, Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker, on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m. The virtual Zoom talk is hosted by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford. The “First Lady of Show Business” and the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas,” Sophie Tucker was raised in Hartford and became a star in vaudeville, radio, film, and television. A gutsy, song-belting stage performer, she entertained audiences for 60 years. Lauren Sklaroff, associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina, will talk about her recent biography, which places Tucker in the context of American cultural history. Register at https://jhsgh.org/tucker/

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 Chanukah celebration in Bloomfield “Lighting Up the Dark: Havdalah, Hanukkah Candles and Fireworks,” an outdoor, in-person, socially-distanced celebration, hosted by Beth Tikvoh Sholom, in the synagogue’s parking lot at 180 Still Rd., Bloomfied. Light Havadalah candles, view menorah lighting, enjoy fireworks. Must wear masks. Arrive at 4:45 p.m. and drive past the main entrance of the synagogue to pick up Havdalah candle and more; event begins at 5 p.m. In the event of inclement weather, watch your email for

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 Friends of Yiddish: A Freilichen Chanike Friends of Yiddish is an informal, mostly English, bilingual drop-in social group which meets to hear a guest speaker or discussion and maybe absorb a Yiddish word or two. Registration required. For more information: (860) 243-3975.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 Engaging the next generation of philanthropists The Greater Hartford Jewish Leadership Academy (JLA) will host “Authentic Philanthropy: Engaging the Next Generation,” an interactive Zoom workshop with Jillian Wagenheim, founder and principal consultant, Sertus Consulting, LLC, to be held Thursday, Dec. 17, 6:30 p.m. The free workshop will focus on fundraising through the lens of generational perspectives and personalities. JLA is developed with support from the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford and funded by the Jewish Community Foundation, the Auerbach-Schiro Foundation, and others. A Zoom link wil be provided upon registration.

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predeceased by her daughter Susan Levin Renert, and her brother Howard Reuben. WOLF Regina M. Wolf, died Nov. 21, three weeks shy of her 80th birthday, from complications of COVID-19. She was the widow of Morris Wolf. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was the daughter of William and Elisabeth (Winnick) Markowitz. She was an active member of Congregation Or Shalom of Orange. She is survived by her daughters, Abby and her husband Gregg, and Gabrielle and and her husband Niall; her grandchildren, Max, Stuart and Elisabeth; her sister Judith; her nephews and niece and their families; and several cousins.

Born Linda Rae Rosen, Sher was prominent in Jewish activism in Chicago and na-tionally, including with groups like AIPAC. In 2004, she joined 18 other women at the Library of Congress to be honored for their contributions to American and Jewish life, among them Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, artist Judy Chicago, and actress Tovah Feldshuh. Betsy Sheerr, a past president of JACPAC, said Sher launched JACPAC in 1980 “to empower women to participate fully in political activism by writing checks, advocating and lobbying, cultivating relationships and using the creative talents (and passionate voices) of Jewish women to make an impact. … Linda believed in the personal touch: we often made a point of stopping by a Member’s office to say thank you for a vote or co-sponsoring a resolution, not just asking for something. She remembered their birth-days, their children’s names, their staffers.” Sher is survived by a son and a daughter, two grandchildren, her mother and a sister.

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