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EDITOR

JULIUS HAYMANB.A., L.L.B.

EDITOR 1937-2000

The Jewish Standard is published monthly in Toronto and Montreal by Michael Hayman B.A., M.A. Editor and Publisher. 1912 A Avenue Road,, Toronto,Ontario M5M 4A1 (416) 537-2696; Printed and bound in Toronto, Canada by Regal Press Canada. Publication Mail Registration Number 40055943

The all too prevalent hostilitybetween Israel’s Jews and their fellow Arabcitizens offers little comfort to those whoseek to pacify and not provoke. AnOrthodox Jew is attacked near theDamascus Gate in a wanton act of vio-lence. The price tag vandals respond byspray painting the slogan “Kahane wasright” on vehicles and buildings in Araband mixed neigbourhoods. An Arab cabdriver is beaten by two knife wieldingJewish punks and an Arab woman ispunched while riding on the JerusalemLight Railway. Arab politicians talk of sep-aration, not integration. And Jewishracists threaten to torch the home of alandlord if she rents an apartment toIsraeli Arabs.

Yet while the purveyors of hateon both sides receive most of the publici-ty, there may, in fact, be room for cau-tious optimism. Sit in a restaurant in theMamilla Mall and observe Jewish andArab young women shopping, sometimestogether, in the same high end stores.Ride the Light Railway and, despite theoccasional incident, see Jews and Arabssharing seats without giving it a secondthought. Go to the Israel Tennis Centreand watch Jews and Arabs learning thesport together. Drop in to the Leir PeacePre-School at the Jerusalem YMCA andwatch as Jewish and Arab pre-schoolersplay with one another, and begin to learnabout one another, under the watchful

eye of Jewish and Arab teachers. Andthen take a bus or taxi to Neve Shalom -Wahat al-Salam and observe how a com-munity of Jews and Arabs, though smallin number, offers hope that peaceful co-existence between Jew and Arab may notbe a pipedream.

Neve Shalom - Wahat al-Salam isabout half way between Jerusalem and TelAviv. It was founded in the early 1970s andtoday has 60 families, split evenly betweenArab and Jew. The ultimate goal is 140 fam-ilies living in a community based on mutualrespect. The educational system, in additionto the primary and secondary schools, alsoincludes the School for Peace, established in1979. Some 60,000 Jews and Arabs fromacross the country have participated in theSFP programs. They do not, it must beacknowledged, all speak with one voice. Butby sharing the same classroom, they come tounderstand the importance of uniting againstthose who would poison the spirit of tolerance.

Some would argue that the expec-tations of the men and women of NeveShalom - Wahat al-Salam, notwithstandingtheir Nobel Peace Prize nominations, are farbeyond their reach. A day spent meetingthe community’s committed residentsjust might convince the observer thatthough the tread will surely be slow. theymay be justified in not despairing of hope.It would surely be in Israel’s best interestsif this were a case in which the race wasnot to the swift or the battle to the strong.

Neve Shalom - Wahat al-SalamAn Oasis of Hope

ANITA SURMASEditor

General NewsSection

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT NEVE SHALOM - WAHAT AL-Salam go to www.nswas.org. The 39 room hotel websiteis http://neveshalom-hotel.com/english/index.html To reach the community’s offices e-mail [email protected] [email protected]

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Jewish andArab children learntogether in the schoolsystem at NeveShalom - Wahat-al-Salam. The commu-nity founded the firstJewish-Arab bilin-gual educationalsystem in the coun-try. A binationalnursery, kinder-garten, primary andjunior high schoolare all part of thecurriculum. Many ofthe 200 children whoattend the schoolscome from surround-ing Arab and Jewishvillages. A visit tothe communityshould be a part ofevery visitor’s Israelitinerary. - TheEditor

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THE WORLD IN REVIEWNEWS OF THE RECENT PAST IS REVIEWED

By NOAH FREEDMAN

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Jewish Association”,Schudrich said in a jointstatement with the presi-dent of Poland’s Union ofJewish Communities, “isthe same organizationthat called for unity onone day only for it toissue an appallingly dis-respectful and inaccurateattack on Poland’s ChiefRabbi the next day”. It isnot a coincidence thatRabbi Margolin is thehead of the EuropeanJewish Association.

Margolin then accusedSchudrich of “torpedoing”the meeting. His angerbecame even more pro-nounced when the Polishparliament voted 222-178to uphold the ban. Hecalled Schudrich “incom-petent” and demanded hisresignation. Schudrich, hesaid, acts “irresponsibly,as though Poland is hisown fiefdom, while ignor-ing the need for coordinat-ed action on an issuewhich affects all ofEuropean Jewry andbeyond”.

And so the internalstruggle continues as thetwo groups vie with oneanother for a leadershiprole. The European JewishAssociation has made lifemore difficult for Schudrichby hiring a Polish national-ist lawyer to challenge theshechita ban. The one timehead of the disbandedLeague of Polish families, afar right movement oftenaccused of anti-Semitism,was hired “because of hisprofessional skills and con-nections in the Polish politi-cal scene.

Rabbi vs Rabbi InPolish Shehitah Ban

They should be onthe same side of the issue.They both want the Polishgovernment to overturn aban on ritual slaughter.But Rabbis MenachemMargolin and MichaelSchudrich are each accus-ing the other of making theproblem worse by refusingto let the other one dealwith the Polish government.

Rabbi Margolinbelongs to the Chabad-affil-iated Centre of Europe whileMichael Schudrich is thePolish chief rabbi. Justbefore Poland’s parliamentwas set to vote on the issueRabbi Margolin was sched-uled to meet with the Polishpresident in an effort to finda compromise on the issue.But President BronislawKomorowksi abruptlycance l l ed the meet ing .

JERUSALEM’S LIGHT RAILWAY HAS NOW BEEN UP AND RUNNING FOR TWO YEARS. TRAVELfrom Pisgat Ze’ev to Mount Herzel has been cut from 90 minutes when the trains started runningto 49 minutes. But anyone who has used the service is aware that problems still need to be addressed.The rail was designed initially to carry some 50,000 people but is now carrying 100,000 daily. The tworail cars per train is simply insufficient. Purchasing tickets can also be frustrating. Human gridlock atstations is all too common as impatient Israelis try to get on and off at the same time.

Rabbi Schudrich, aU.S. born rabbi who haslived in Poland since 1992,and was named chief rabbiin 2004, counters by sayingthat “we cannot risk thatour efforts will be hinderedby the actions of people whowill not bear the conse-quences of their interfer-ence” . “The European

The fact thatChabad operates only twocenters in Poland, when ithas six in Belarus andmore than 30 each inRussia and Ukraine, maybe at the root of the squab-ble. Schudrich is acutelyaware of the fact thatChabad wants to expandits reach in Poland, withperhaps an eye on layingclaim to chief rabbi.

No Shabbat Candles Allowed

For two decadesOrthodox Jews have flockedto the Welsh seaside andstayed at the residences ofAberystwyth University.But this year they encoun-



WHAT THE BOYCOTT PROPONENTS FAILto mention is that boycotting such Israelicompanies as SodaStream would cost thePalestinians dearly. Almost half of the 1300workers at the above plant at MishorAdumim are Palestinians. They earn threetimes as much as Palestinians do workingfor Palestinian companies in the West Bank.“Product labelling” which the EU and theAnglican/Lutheran hierarchy advocate willonly mean that relatively highly paidPalestinian workers will lose their jobs.Pictured above a taxi drops off a Palestinianworker at the SodaStream plant.

“In Canada, do StephenHarper and his most parti-san supporters actuallythink, down deep, thatIsrael may actually bearsome o f the b l ame f o r i t s t r o u b l e s w i t h t h e

Palestinians?”Apart from being

gratuitous, this questiondisguised personal opinionas news by phrasing declar-ative statements into ques-tions.

There is no evidenceto substantiate claims thatCanada’s Prime Ministerand his “most partisan sup-porters” deep down assign

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NEIL MACDONALD JUST CANNOT HELP BUT BLAME ISRAEL FOR ALL THE WORLD’S ILLS

By MIKE FEGELMAN

The author is Executive Director of Honest ReportingCanada. The organization seeks to promote fairness andaccuracy in the Canadian media’s coverage of Israel. Formore information readers can visit www.honestreporting.ca- The Editor

It takes a pretty fer-tile imagination to correlatea story about alleged politi-cal bias at the IRS and sex-ual abuse in the U.S. mili-tary to the Middle East con-flict. Leave it to CBCreporter Neil Macdonald, aself-appointed pontificatorperched from Washington,to twist unrelated worldaffairs stories into criti-cisms of Israel.

In an analysis piecepublished on the CBC’swebsite on June 6,Macdonald included the fol-lowing irrelevant smearagainst Israel and Canadiansupport for the Jewish state:



In the United States,you need a passport to trav-el abroad, and a drivers’license to cash a check. InIsrael, you need an ID cardjust to cross the street.

“The law is thateveryone must have an IDcard,” Jerusalem policespokesman MickyRosenfeld told The MediaLine. “Incidents can takeplace, whether it’s a trafficaccident or if someoneneeds to be questioned forsecurity purposes, and weneed to have their details.”

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By LINDA GRADSTEIN, MEDIA LINEzens, Jewish and Arab,carry ID cards in a blueplastic folder. Inside, thecard itself lists the bearer’snationality as “Israeli.”Some 20 percent of Israel’scitizens are Arab, and legal-ly they are entitled to fullrights, including votingrights. The current Israeliparliament has 16 Arabmembers out of a total of120 parliamentarians.Many Arab citizens of Israel,however, say they feel dis-criminated against and thatmunicipal budgets for Arabtowns in Israel are lowerthan those of Jewish towns.The Higher Arab Monitoring

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Committee recently releaseda report charging that thereis a shortage of 6100 class-rooms and 4000 teachersfor the upcoming schoolyear in the Arab sector.

Palestinians who livein the West Bank carry theirID cards in a bright greenfolder. Called a “hawiyye” inArabic, Palestinians whowant to enter Israel needboth the ID card and a spe-cial army-issued permit.Those permits can some-times be easy to get. Forexample, Israel allowedmore than 300,000Palestinians to enter Israelduring the recent holiday

that ended the Muslim holymonth of Ramadan. Onceinside Israel, many madetheir way to the beachesalong the Mediterraneancoast – a treat for land-locked Palestinians.

Where the ID cardsget even more confusing iswhen it comes toJerusalem. Latest figuresshow that Jerusalem ishome to 508,000 Jews and293,000 Palestinians, mak-ing a total population of801,000. The vast majorityof Jews who live inJerusalem are Israeli citi-zens, as Israel offers auto-

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to a half century of friend-ships, challenges and won-derful experience thatCharlotte and I have beenprivileged to share. Thesewill remain ever present inour minds and hearts wher-ever destiny takes us. These49 years would not havebeen so gratifying if not foreach of you who have suchan integral part of ourlives.”

JEWISH REHABEVENT: One of the trulywonderful events I attendedover the summer was the

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C H A R I S M A T I CNEW TEAM: Tifereth BethDavid JerusalemCongregation on Baily Roadin Côte Saint-Luc has beenenergized by the arrival of anew executive director inRebecca Rosenberg and anewly elected president inJudah Aspler. Rebecca suc-ceeds Leon Monaker, whostays to oversee financeswhile Aspler assumes therole previously held byMayer Diamond. Rebeccaand I worked together formany years at the CanadianJewish Congress. She has acharming personality and agood work ethic, both greatassets for this kind of job.Her husband Michaeltaught me sociology at bothDawson College andConcordia University.Judah is a real dynamo, notyet 50 and ever so dedicatedto the TBDJ. He will nodoubt make his mark here.

EYE ON MONTREALNAMES IN THE NEWS IN OUR CITY

By MIKE COHEN

DOLLARD LEADER-SHIP: L’AssociationSépharade de la BanlieueOuest de Montréal (ASBOM)and its Or ShalomSynagogue has been servingthe West Island’s SephardicFrench speaking Jewishcommunity since 1977.Even its website is com-pletely in French.Congregation Beth TikvahAhavat Shalom NusachHoari, meanwhile, has beenin operation for 49 yearsand serves a predominantlyEnglish speaking Ashkenaziclientele. It was thereforevery ironic earlier in thesummer to learn that OrShalom had elected its firstanglophone president inyoung lawyer Yoni Petelwhile during the same weekFrench-speaking business-man Albert Levy assumedthe presidency of BethTikvah.

ZEITZ RETIRES:Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Zeitzis now officially known asrabbi emeritus at BethTikvah. He retired from hissenior post on June 30,having served as the spiri-tual leader of the Dollardshul since day one 49 years

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ago. His assistant MarkFishman has succeededhim. Looking back on thesynagogue’s humble begin-nings, he remarked:“Considering that we start-ed with a collective dream ofbuilding a Jewish commu-nity in 1964, you each inyour own way and withinyour own capacity over theyears, helped actualize thedream into the amazingreality we all enjoy today.We have seen a second andnow a third generationgrow up and flourish beforeour very eyes. There is close

JUDAH ASPLER IS THEnew president ofTifereth Beth DavidJerusalem Congregation

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T R A V E L T A L E SHELPFUL HINTS FOR THE JEWISH TRAVELLER

By MIKE COHEN

The hotel event deskoffers sports packages toCanucks and B.C. Lionsgames. Other featuresinclude secure under-ground parking with in/outprivileges, valet parking andsafety deposit boxes. JodiSprackman is the managerof community relations. Sheis a proud member of theJewish community, origi-nally from Montreal and thedaughter of Jewish cook-book legend Noreen Gilletz.Go to www.rosedaleonrob-son.com or callReservations at 604-689-8033 or toll-free at 1-800-661-8870. Among the com-munity projects the Robsonsupports are the JewishBook Festival and theChutzpah Festival.

JEWISH COMMUNI-TY: Vancouver is home to

RETURN TO VAN-COUVER: I recentlyreturned from a trip toVancouver (www.tourism-vancouver.com). It was myfirst time back in theprovince of BritishColumbia’s largest city infive years.

WHERE TO STAY:There are more than 24,000rooms in Greater Vancouverand more than 13,000 inthe downtown core.

We split our staybetween Vancouver andWhistler. In Vancouver wereturned to the Rosedale onRobson (www.roseda leonrobson.com), where westayed in the past. Comfort,location, relaxation, enter-tainment, water and moun-tain views, this spot has itall! As historic Yaletown'sonly al l suite hotel, the

Rosedale offers 217 one andtwo bedroom suites for theprice of a conventional hotelroom. You can choose froman array of suites.

The 21st floor pent-house suite is extraordi-nary. It features two bed-rooms with king size bedsand accompanying bath-rooms, a nice glass tablewith four chairs, two sittingchairs, a pullout couch anda gorgeous patio completewith a propane barbequeand a table and chairs soyou can dine or entertainoutdoors with a beautifulview of the city. The galleykitchen has a fridge andfreezer, a stove, microwave,toaster, coffee maker, sink,cutlery, dishes and plenty ofcounter space.

If you need time torelax head to the indoor

swimming pool or the sec-ond floor garden terrace.For the fitness minded,there is a second floor exer-cise area and equipment isat your disposal.

The hotel is situatedon the corner of Hamiltonand Robson Streets inVancouver’s turn-of-the-century Yaletown, a formerwarehouse district that hasbeen converted into a hipand fresh destination. TheRosedale is perfect for theleisure traveller, being juststeps away from the finestrestaurants, shopping, gal-leries, live entertainmentand sports Vancouver hasto offer.

Some packagesinclude a deluxe continentalbuffet breakfast in Goody's.This can also be purchasedat an additional cost.



Canada's third largestJewish community, with25,740 members. That is upfrom 16,565 in 1991 and22,000 in 2001.

There are sevenmainstream Jewish congre-gations in Metro Vancouver,one non-denominationalcongregation in White Rock,five Chabad houses and twoKollels. The Reform syna-gogues have the most mem-bers, closely followed by theConservative and thenOrthodox congregations. Itis estimated that approxi-mately one third of the iden-tified Jewish community onthe Lower Mainland aresynagogue members.

The JewishFederation of GreaterVancouver conducts thecommunity’s centralfundraising initiative, theFederation AnnualCampaign, which supports40 partner agencies, locally,

nationally and in Israel. TheJewish education systemincludes five pre-schools,five day schools and ninesupplementary schools.Youth and student organi-zations include VancouverHillel Foundation(http://www.vancouverhil-lel.ca), which serves Jewishstudents attending theUniversity of BritishColumbia, Simon FraserUniversity and theUniversity of Victoria, aswell as other colleges inMetro Vancouver. There areadditional Jewish youthorganizations active inMetro Vancouver, saysBecky Saegert, the Directorof Marketing andCommunications for theJewish Federation.

PARKING TIP: KevinGillespie is now in his fifthyear as general manager ofthe Sheraton Montreal

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OF ALL THE DANGER SPOTS IN THE WESTBank, Hebron is probably the area Israelis fear themost. While there was no formal checkpoint as weentered Hebron, the Israelis had set up an“instant” checkpoint as they searched for thosethey suspected were plotting a terrorist attack.Also, since Jewish Israelis cannot legally enterHebron without permission, Israelis checked ourvehicle to ensure that our cab driver was Arab andthat we were not Israeli citizens. Hostility amonglocal Palestinians to the Israeli presence was pal-pable in Hebron, more so than anywhere else inthe West Bank.



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the Palestinian cause.But wait, aren’t

CBC journalists tasked tobe politically neutral and toembargo their personalviews in their professionalwork? Macdonald’s appar-ent preoccupation withIsrael seems to be theexception to the rule allow-ing him to use CBCresources to attack Israel,time and again.

This past January,Macdonald wrote an analy-sis piece published on theCBC’s website where heclaimed that Israel’s “hard-line” government “hasshown little interest innegotiating a two-statesolution with thePalestinians.” DespiteIsrael’s consistent calls fornegotiations without pre-conditions to solve theIsraeli-Palestinian impasse,and its regular overturesand concessions to obstruc-tionist “hardline”Palestinian leaderMahmoud Abbas,Macdonald was of the opin-ion that Israel doesn’t wantpeace.

One recalls howMacdonald used his CBCTwitter account in January2012 to scandalously in-

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blame to Israel for theimpasses and quarrels withthe Palestinians, butMacDonald has no problemraising this question that

serves to malign Israel,Canadian support for theJewish state, and whichexonerates Palestiniantransgressions and elevates

sinuate that Israel has anissue with controlling gunsaimed at non-Israelis. After abarrage of criticism ensued,Macdonald “voluntarilyclosed” his Twitter account.

In an April 11, 2011report about “The Battle forLibya,” Macdonald super-fluously introduced Israelinto a CBC National story ithad nothing to do with.Macdonald exposed viewersto the malicious implication


to “the ferocious appetite ofJewish settlers for Arabland.”

In 2005, Macdonalddid a feature one-on-one TVinterview with former CIAChief Michael Sheuer whoclaimed that American sup-port for Israel was costingAmerican lives abroad inthe Middle East and endan-gering the safety of U.S. cit-izens domestically.

In May of 2004,Macdonald filed a reportabout the abuse of Iraqidetainees at the AbuGhraib prison facility. Thereport featured a quote bypro-Palestinian propagan-dist Eugene Bird who false-ly suggested that Israeliagents might have played arole in the torture scandal.This incident elicited aremarkable two on-air clar-ifications from the CBC,and its ombudsmanacknowledged that thisreport exposed CBC to “the

We Join in Extending Best Wishes to the Jewish Community ofMONTREAL AND THE WEST ISLAND

On the Occasion ofROSH HASHANAH

May the coming year be a happy and healthy one for family and friendsWe are always privileged to serve you.


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made by a Libyan civilianthat like Gaddafi, “Israelkills whomever it likes”. Inother words, like Gaddafi,Israel commits war crimesby targeting innocent civil-ians at will. Two monthsearlier on The National in astory about the use of emer-gency laws and the move-ments which were trying todislodge repressive Arabregimes from power,Macdonald found it impor-tant to mention that “Thetrouble is that most Arabsknow that Israel has anemergency law too which ituses for such things asdetention without trial, andconfiscation, or demolitionof Palestinian property.”

This past November,Macdonald claimed in aCBC TV report that “Israel…is energetically eating upthe land that would form theP a l e s t i n i a n s t a t e …”Macdonald’s statementechoed his referral in 2000



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Unlike political com-mentators and pundits whoare paid for their profes-sional opinions, CBCreporters must refrain fromexploiting our public broad-caster’s news platforms toexpound on personal preju-dices. Objective journalistsshould report on the newsrather than shape it.

An important linemust be drawn when a CBCreporter is given free rein tovent his personal opinionsand apparent disdain for

Israel for the attack. Theonly person interviewed inMacdonald’s report wasAlan Keiswetter of theSaudi-financed Middle EastInstitute, who stated thatAmerica was “in the pocketsof (former Israeli PrimeMinister Ariel) Sharon.”

Also in December of2004 – in the midst of aPalestinian terror war thatsaw Israeli families blownup in buses and restau-rants – Macdonald wrote ananalysis on CBC’s websitestating that “if Palestinianshave committed terror, theIsraelis have certainly com-mitted war crimes.”Macdonald then raised thequestion of whether Jewishsettlers, “thousands ofwhom are well armed andovertly bellicose, constitutecivilians or combatants.”Macdonald appeared tohave been suggesting thatthe murder of Israeli set-tlers may not in fact be “ter-rorism.” The sentence waslater amended online aftercomplaints to the CBC.Finally, in 2002, Macdonaldasked rhetorically whetherthe terror group Hezbollahis “a national liberationmovement or, as Israel andits supporters maintain, amurderous global menace?”

We Wish all OurJewish Friends

and Patronsa happy, healthy and prosperous

New Year

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appearance of bias.” TheCBC’s editor-in-chief at thetime promised that the situ-ation would never berepeated again.

B u t a m e r eseven months later, in a

December 2004 report on adeadly al-Qaeda terrorattack on the American con-sulate in Jeddah, SaudiArabia, Macdonald aired asource who blamed theU .S . r e l a t i onsh ip w i th



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the State of Israel. Whenthat journalist, whosesalary is paid for by yourtax dollars, uses official CBCresources, also paid for by

you and me, to advance apersonal political perspec-tive, something must bedone to stop this journalis-tic misconduct.

We Join in Extending Best Wishes to Our Jewish Friends and Customers


May your year be a happy, healthyand prosperous one.

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matic citizenship to anyonewith one Jewish grandpar-ent. Some Palestinians, likeMoufid Batarseh, a 57-year-old Palestinian taxi driver,are Israeli citizens as well.

“About ten years agoI decided to become anIsraeli citizen,” he tells TheMedia Line while travelingon Jerusalem’s light railtrain that traverses bothArab and Jewish neighbor-hoods in the city. “I used totravel to Europe and it wasjust easier to have an Israelipassport.”

In 1967, when Israelexpanded and annexed eastJerusalem, it offeredPalestinians citizenship.

Most declined, saying thateast Jerusalem must even-tually be the capital of thePalestinian state. Theyinsist that accepting Israelicitizenship is equivalent toaccepting Israeli controlover Jerusalem. Even today,only about five percent ofeast Jerusalem Palestinianshave Israeli citizenship.

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in Dubai for the past threeyears, says that mustchange.

“I have a blue IDcard, but my husband whois Jordanian doesn’t haveone so he can’t come herevery easily,” she told TheMedia Line at the Qalandyacheckpoint betweenJerusalem and the WestBank. “Look at my ID card.My nationality is blank. Iam a Palestinian. Whydon’t they write that in myID card?”

Sanduqa has cometo visit her family inJerusalem and was on herway to other relatives inNablus. Her trip brings upone of the ironies of thecurrent situation. The WestBank is divided into threeareas – A, B, and C. Area A,which includes about 18

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Jerusalem for seven years,Israel can take away theirresidency permit, and thathas been done in hundredsof cases.”

Palestinians agreethat holding on toJerusalem residency isimportant for their freedomof movement. It also givesthem access to Israeli socialsecurity and health care,widely considered one of thebest systems in the world.

Most Palestinians ineast Jerusalem have IDcards that look almostexactly like those of Jewishcitizens. The main differ-ence is that they are perma-nent residents, not citizens.In the ID card, the line thatsays “nationality” is blank.

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percent of the land of theWest Bank but 55 percent ofthe Arab population,includes cities likeRamallah, Nablus andBethlehem, and is undersole Palestinian control –administrative and security.Area B, about 21 percent ofthe West Bank, is underjoint Israeli and Palestiniancontrol; and Area C, about

61 percent of the landincluding all of the Jewishcommunities on post-1967land, is under completeIsraeli control.

Jerusalem residentslike Sanduqa can enter allthree parts of the WestBank. Jewish citizens ofIsrael can enter only AreasB and C. In fact, at theentrance to Palestiniancities such as Ramallahthere are large signs saying“it is forbidden for Israelicitizens to enter.”

Israeli officials say itis not safe for Israelis toenter areas under solePalestinian control. In2000, two Israeli soldierswho mistakenly enteredRamallah were caught and“lynched”. In dozens ofcases since then,Palestinian security officershave stopped JewishIsraelis who either made awrong turn into Ramallahor came to visit and turnedthem over to Israeli police.At the same time, manyIsraelis do visit Bethlehemand Jericho, usually veryquiet areas.

Sanduqa’s sisterRafiqa is finishing herdegree in pharmacy inJordan.

“I have the blue IDand I can go everywhere,Arab or Jewish,” she toldThe Media Line. “I am proudto be Palestinian. I am aPalestinian who lives inJerusalem.”

On SalaheddinStreet in east Jerusalem,Halil Hijazi, 25, spends longhours squeezing oranges,carrots and pomegranatesinto fresh juice. He openedthe business just a fewmonths ago, and hopes for abetter life for his wife andyoung daughter.

“With the blue IDcard, I can go anywhere andthis week we took a trip toAkko (a seaside mixed Arab-Jewish city in the Galilee),”he tells The Media Line. “Myproblem is not with gettingaround. It’s that everythingis too expensive. I live in a��

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CAMPAIGN 2013:On a final note, I ampleased to be seeking a thirdmandate as the city council-lor for District 2 in CôteSaint-Luc. This area coversRembrandt, Merrimac, MarcChagall, Honoré de Balzac,Jubilee, The Avenue andparts of Kildare, Cavendishand Mackle. Côte Saint-Lucpresently has a Jewishmayor (AnthonyHousefather) and eightJewish city councillors. Wear e a l l runn ing aga in .

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co-Chairs are SarahHutman and LianneRouttenberg.

As an avid art collec-tor, Nulman lends his cre-ative strengths and sensi-bilities to this year’s artauction. In addition tobeing a successful entrepre-neur, he has been creatingand leading major mediaprojects for over threedecades. He is thePresident, Festivals andTelevision, of Just ForLaughs and is anacclaimed, thought-provok-ing public speaker/show-man. He is also the authorof three books amongstother accomplishments.

For almost 100years, Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) - a women'svolunteer organization - hasbeen dedicated to the sup-port of Children, Healthcareand Women in Israel andCanada. Projects funded inMontreal include LOVEQuebec, the MontrealChildren's Hospital, theMissing Children's Network,and women's shelters. Forticket information email:[email protected] log on towww.chw.ca/montreal

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WHILE ONE MIGHT THINK THAT THE ABOVE“Wall” protects Israel from terrorists enteringfrom the West Bank, that is not the case. Theabove wall protects kibbutz Karem Shalomfrom terrorists infiltrating from Gaza. Still, itwas “under” this fence and the barbered wirebeside it that terrorists tunneled into the kib-butz in 2006 and snatched Gilad Schalit about200 yards from where this photo was taken.

ilies. Well-respected in thehotel industry, Gillespie’spresence is of particularinterest to the Jewish com-munity. Gillespie immersedhimself in kashrut, Judaiccustoms and ceremonies,and the history of the Jewishpeople during the 1980s,when he served as sous chefat the Tel Aviv Hilton Hotel.He has brought that knowl-edge to Montreal.

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local fire officials. Theypoint to the 2011 incidentin which an elderly womenwas hospitalized with burnssuffered from a Shabbatcandle and to last yearwhen a five year-old suf-fered severe burns when herdress caught fire at akindergarten Shabbatparty.

Attempts to mediatebetween the Orthodox andthe university failed to pro-duce a solution and hasidimchose to holiday elsewherethis year.

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THE HIGH PROFILEowner of the DallasMavericks was born inPittsburgh and grew upin Mt. Lebanon the sonof middle class Jewishparents. His grandpar-ents emigrated fromRussia and camethrough Ellis Island.They changed theirname from Chabeniskywhen they settled in theUnited States. Cuban’snet worth is estimatedat $2.3 billion.

put up for auction. And itwas Jewish investor EugeneMeyer who bought thefloundering daily, turningaround the bottom line, andmaking it the reputablevoice that it has become.

Meyer served aschairman of the WashingtonPost Company until hisdeath in 1959. For the nextfour generations the Meyerfamily continued to run thePost. His daughterKatherine Graham waspublisher during theWatergate era and there islittle doubt that the paperwas instrumental in bring-ing down Richard Nixon.Meyer’s great grand-daugh-ter, Katherine Weymouth, isthe current publisher.

What changes Bezoswill bring to the Post areunclear at this early date.But given his reputation fortechnological innovation, itwas not surprise anyone ifthe new Post brings funda-mental changes to the waysnewspapers are produced.

Parents SueSchool Board

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grams. Maccabee AishJewish Fire Preventionacknowledges that “holidayand Sabbath observanthomes are a high risk forfire and burns”, Adds MattGoldstein, the founder ofAish Maccabee FirePrevention, “it has becomeall too common to hear offire related tragedies withinthe Jewish community.”

Washington Post’sJewish Roots

The recent sale ofthe Washington Post to JeffBezos has generated a lot ofnews. But almost lost inthe transaction is the Post’sJewish past.

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filed a lawsuit against theCarver public schools inU.S. District Court inBoston claiming that theirson was subjected to dailyanti-Semitic attacks andthat the school board tookno action to stop the inci-dents. The Boston Globereported that a swastikawas found drawn in chalkoutside the family home.

The lawsuit main-tains that the racial slurs,the Nazi salutes and thepunching and kicking havebeen going on over a periodof two years and thatdespite repeated complaintsschool officials in the area,50 miles from Boston, “havedone nothing to stop it”.

The lawsuit, broughtunder the MassachusettsAnti-Bullying Law, claimsthat the boy wascalled ”stingy Jew”, “dirty

Jew” and “Jew boy” andthat he needed to “get in theoven”.

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In 2000 Mr. Beitzand his wife were awardedthe Leon-Baeck prize, thehighest award given byGermany’s Central Councilof Jews. Mr. Beitz, saidGerman Chancellor AngelaMerkel, deserves to beacknowledged for his “braveand exemplary support for

Jewish workers”. He is alsoone of only a few Germansto be honoured with aHolocaust memorial at YadVashem in Israel. Said Mr,Beitz: “My motives were notpolitical, they were purelyhumane, moral motives...We watched from morningto evening as close as youcan get to what was hap-pening to the Jews inBoryslav. When you see a��

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Rehabilitating theSwastika

We do not knowhow many readers haveever heard of the Raeliens.They were founded in 1974and claim to have 70,000members. They believethat a race of aliens calledthe Elohim created theearth and that journalistClaude Vorilhon was theprophet chosen to spreadtheir message. Their logois the swastika inside theStar of David. TheRaeliens claim that theswastika represents “infin-ity in time”, while the Starof David represents “infin-ity in space”. They pointto a branch in Israel asproof of their legitimacy.

The Raeliens areupset with the negativereputation of the swastika.

The goal of this “UFO reli-gion” is to remove theident i f i ca t ion o f theswastika with the ThirdReich. They maintain thatlong before Hitler chosethe swastika as the sym-bol of his regime, itappeared in China, Africa,and South Asia. “As longas we associate theswastika with Hitler andthe horrors of the Naziregime,” the Raeliensmaintain, “they own it. Wewant it back”.

And so vacationerson the beach in Long Islandlooked up to see a light air-craft trailing a flag reading“proswastika.org”. ThomasKaenzig, head of the pro-swastika movement, toldjournalists that he was“offended” because “oursymbol” is associated withsomething negative.

Not everyone onLong Island was thrilledto see the airplane, Thegroup’s website says thata cult activist carrying acart full of swastika signswas attacked on the beach,Israeli branch or not.


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