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Amazon Reverses Ban, Still Selling Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

(JNS) — Amazon is still sell-ing editions of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, reversing a recent ban.

A spokesperson for the online retailer told The New York Times last week that the company enables “customers with ac-cess to a variety of viewpoints,” adding that “all retailers make decisions about what selection they choose to offer.”

Amazon had informed book-sellers that they would no lon-ger be allowed to sell Nazi-au-thored books on the website, including Hitler’s autobiography and children’s books that incite anti-Semitism. In one email sent by the platform, those sell-

ing secondhand copies of Mein Kampf were told that “they can

A display of copies of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” (Wikimedia Commons)

Jewish Organizations, Leaders See Relief in Bill Passed by Congress

Offering Assistance to Nonprofitsby JACKSON RICHMAN

(JNS) — Following a week of frantic negotiations, Con-gress passed an unprecedented spending bill to provide $2.1 trillion in assistance to Amer-icans and businesses affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or the CARES Act, passed unan-imously in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday and passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday in a voice vote. U.S. Pres-ident Donald Trump signed it into law Friday afternoon.

The Jewish community, spe-cifically its nonprofit sector, is expected to receive assistance

from the legislation. The Jewish Federations of

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Teva to Send Millions of Tablets to US Hospitals for Possible Treatment of Virus

(JNS) — Israeli pharmaceuti-cal giant Teva said that it will donate millions of doses of its

anti-malarial drug hydroxy-chloroquine, which has been

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Whirlwind Week Ends With Unity Government in Israel, Netanyahu

Remaining at the Helmby DOV LIPMAN

(JNS) — After nearly a year of political paralysis, Israel is finally on its way towards a na-tional unity government as the nation battles against the un-precedented coronavirus pan-demic. Benny Gantz, who has stood as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief rival through three consecutive election cycles, announced that his party faction would join Ne-tanyahu’s right-wing coalition to form a new government.

According to the terms of the agreement, Netanyahu will serve as prime minister for 18 months before handing the pre-miership as part of a rotation to Gantz, who will serve under

Netanyahu as deputy prime minister and defense minister for the first 18 months, and

then become prime minister in September 2021.

Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz passes Israeli Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu at a memorial ceremony in the Knesset marking 24 years since the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, on Nov. 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anti-Semitic Hackers Are Exploiting Quarantine to

Infiltrate Jewish Online Meetingsby MOLLY BOIGON

Cindy Goldberg, a school board president, was waiting for a virtual meeting to begin on Zoom Tuesday night when hackers started posting car-toon images of Hitler, photos of Nazi soldiers and swastikas to parents, board members and other staff for the school district sandwiched between Los Ange-

les and Santa Barbara.“Awful doesn’t begin to touch

it,” said Goldberg, 56, in a phone interview. “It’s horrific. It’s disgusting. It’s dishearten-ing.”

The hackers also streamed graphic pornography and used the n-word in the meeting of the Conejo Valley Unified School District, threatening

family members with sexual violence. The barrage lasted only for about a minute and a half, but, Goldberg said, “it felt like an eternity.”

The phenomenon Goldberg and the other board mem-bers, district staff and online viewers witnessed is known as “Zoombombing,” when un-

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For Young Jews Away From Their Families, the Coronavirus

Puts Passover in Jeopardyby GABE FRIEDMAN

(JTA) — Randi Bergman isn’t sure of her Passover plans yet, but there’s a good chance she’ll be spending the holiday alone.

Bergman, a 34-year-old freelance fashion writer, lives alone in what she calls a ju-nior one-bedroom apartment

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Closed by Coronavirus, Jewish Museums Consider an Uncertain Future Online

by PJ GRISARAs the world faces the

novel coronavirus pandemic, the stewards of history face a unique challenge: How can museums continue to engage audiences while their physical buildings are shuttered in the interests of public health?

The answer, for many, lies in retooling online infrastructure, bringing programming to social media and launching outreach campaigns. Museums are ulti-mately reliant on physical at-tendance and tours, but with no definite sense of when they’ll be able to reopen, those in the field are using the situation to innovate and to plan beyond the current crisis.

“The museum might be closed, but our work cannot stop,” said Michelle Tycher Stein, chief marketing officer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Wash-ington, D.C.

Since USHMM closed on March 14, the museum has been working to leverage its existing online learning re-sources. Its first new initiative was the creation of a weekly online digest highlighting its collection, an email blast with curated links prompting users to “Explore,” “Watch,” “Listen” and “Read” a handful of select-ed pages on the site each week. “We don’t want this collection to be constrained,” Stein said.

One recent digest l inked to a landing page for online learning tools, including the USHMM’s Holocaust Encyclo-pedia, its searchable artifact collection and a “Virtual Field Trip” of the museum building. It also included links to a video about Elie Wiesel’s legacy; an online version of the “Some Were Neighbors” exhibition, which examines complicity and collaboration in the Holocaust; the museum’s podcast series, which covers topics like the 1948 Convention on the Pre-vention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the se-cret preservation of Jewish cul-ture in the Warsaw ghetto; and an article about the museum’s preservation of historic violins.

While live events at the mu-seum have been cancelled for the indefinite future, the mu-seum is thinking of how to bring their regular seminars, workshops and speaking events to the web. That work is still in early stages, with no events listed on the virtual calendar at press time. USHMM is also developing webinars for educa-tors, who have been reaching out for help on how teach their units on the Holocaust as class-es have gone remote.

“I do think we have a role to play,” Stein said. “And I do

actually think that there will be learning and new ways of engaging that will be a critical part of how we move forward in the future.”

At the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, chief curator Josh Perelman has been using e-blasts to museum subscribers to advertise virtual tours for the museum available through its partnership with Google Arts and Culture.

The museum’s core collec-tion and temporary exhibit from 2018, “Leonard Bernstein — The Power of Music,” are among several easily perusable online exhibitions, which allow visitors to view wall text and zoom in on images and ob-jects. The virtual exhibits are nothing new, but in addition to raising awareness of them, the museum is pushing fresh initiatives, including preparing an online exhibit on nurses and nursing pegged to the current crisis; posts on Jewish nurs-es are already being uploaded on its Facebook page. But on-line exhibits are just one way the NMAJH has been thinking about engaging audiences since it closed in mid-March. The museum is also considering how to bring long-standing pro-gramming to the internet. As a start, it will hold its annual Freedom Seder Revisited virtu-ally on April 6, with a number of storytellers and performers meditating on the nature of freedom.

Like USHMM, NMAJH is also working to engage edu-cators. The museum already works with schools, offering a collaborative learning curric-

ulum based on its collection and training many educators through its National Educators Institute for Teaching American Jewish history. Now, the muse-um is building out its education resources with additional lesson plans, virtual experiences and hands-on activities, the first set of which rolled out March 30 in an eblast. Themed around Pass-over, that blast included an ac-tivity book inviting children to “tell their story” — and explore the greater Jewish-American one — by analyzing historical family photographs, drawing a family portrait, doing a word hunt and identifying items from the collection based on closeup images. Also included in the email is a “guide to small or solo Seders” and a brief article on military Seders in the 1940s, complete with photographs.

“This is clearly an opportu-nity,” Perelman said. “It actu-ally forces us to innovate and to make changes more rapidly than expected. That makes us a more accessible and far-reach-ing institution. This is just a moment where it’s fully transi-tioning from a physical muse-um to a virtual space.”

“I’m thinking this more like a marathon than a sprint,” said Josh Mack, vice president of marketing for the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. “It’s a pivot from a place where our education efforts are about people coming in [and] teaching. It came together fairly quickly and it’s still being refined.”

MJH’s efforts to refocus on a digital experience include new blog posts featuring artifacts from the collection, videos of events and lectures from the

museum’s archives and plans for activities to do with kids, like creating a family tree or conducting an interview with a family member. Like the USHMM and NMAJH, the mu-seum is also hoping to engage educators by posting links to its collection and resources on its Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram. Recently, the web-site added a landing page with a homeschooling guide.

In the days since the museum closed on March 15, Mack said that the website has received several thousand more video views than is typical. The mu-seum’s free Holocaust educa-tion curriculum, available since February 2019, had registered almost as many new users by the middle of March as in the entire month of February.

The museum has begun to host virtual events that were on the museum’s calendar before its closure, like a lecture on Yid-dish humor during World War II with Yiddishist Anna Shtern-shis and an author talk. It’s also rolling out new events, includ-ing an April 2 panel on Seders in the time of coronavirus with former Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner, Forward contribu-tor Liza Schoenfein and cook-book author Adeena Sussman. Apart from going remote, the live-streamed events are being tweaked in another way, with many of them being held at lunch time instead of the eve-ning to provide a midday break for those working from home.

“It’s a pretty exciting time in a dark way, because there are a lot of new ways to engage audi-ences and to convert extant con-tent into new and fresh modes

of storytelling,” said Sarah Bai-ley Hogarty, director of market-ing and communications for the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.

The museum has launched a virtual tour of their exhib-it “Levi Strauss: A History of American Style,” which chron-icles the life of the blue jeans creator and his iconic contribu-tions to fashion. And, in an at-tempt to engage a more commit-ted online audience, Hogarty and her team have outlined a weekly schedule of “bite-sized” content to be posted to Insta-gram, Facebook and Twitter and designed to particularly en-gage families with school-aged children. Each day has a theme. Monday is “CJM home school,” each week spotlighting a differ-ent at-home learning resource from the collection. Tuesday will focus on a DIY project — a science project, craft or writing prompt — to keep small hands busy and engage both kids and parents. Wednesday will reflect on a MuseumMomentofZen. Thursday is for toda, or thank-fulness, and will include rec-ipes for Shabbat, dispatches from mitzvah projects or in-stances of people being kind. Friday will feature audio or video from a past installment of the museum’s weekly Friday gallery chats.

For Hogarty, taking the muse-um online only has an upside.“-Most museums see far high-er visitorship on their digital platforms than they do in their brick and mortars,” she said. “This is obviously a time to really evaluate the importance and impact of those online visi-

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Philadelphia-Area Day School Uses 3D Printers To Make Face Shields for Doctors, Hospital

(JNS) — Kohelet Yeshiva High School, an Orthodox Jewish school in Merion Station, Pa., began fabricating special pro-tective face shields for medical professionals on the front lines battling COVID-19, using its 3D printers in its state-of-the-art Fab-rication Laboratory (“Fab Lab”).

Its first batch of the protective

face shields have been delivered to doctors and a major hospital in the Philadelphia communi-ty, Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa.

According to Kohelet Yeshiva head of school Rabbi Dr. Gil Perl, the school’s innovative Fab Lab has been a hub of activity this week, despite the fact that school

is currently closed. Ordinarily used for multi-dis-

ciplinary, project-based activities in conjunction with its STEM and arts programs, the Fab Lab was transformed into a produc-tion facility as its 3D printers began producing prototypes of protective face shields that have since received medical approval from the infectious disease pre-vention team at Lankenau.

The project is being overseen by Kohelet art teacher Daniel Ostrov and his wife, Stepha-nie Cole. Kohelet science chair Diane Glickman Weintraub also played a role in the initiative.

“Helping those in need is central to our mission as a day school, and the need for person-al protective equipment right now is overwhelming,” said Perl.

“Our small high school lab won’t solve the shortage, but if we can inspire others to do the same, then perhaps together we can.”

Although the school was able to begin creating the face shields, they needed button-holed elastic in order to complete produc-tion. A call for help went out to the local community via social media; shortly thereafter, the school had enough of the special elastic to continue.

According to Perl, production capacity with the current pro-totype will likely be 20 to 30 shields per day, depending on the availability of materials.

Kohelet’s next major need will be rolls of Acrylic PET-G .020 or .040 (any size over 12” x 12”). The school located a plastics company in northern New Jer-

sey that carries it and is hoping to get some shortly, though it’s still seeking local suppliers who might have inventory.

“We’ve had requests for the protective face shields pour in from doctors as far away as New York,” said Perl. “While we’d love to service everyone, our capacity is going to be limited. We’d like to first make sure that everyone in our extended Ko-helet community who is working on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight and needs a face shield has one. Our second priority will be our local hospitals.”

Kohelet is working on a sec-ond prototype where all of the major parts are made using the school’s laser cutter rather than the 3D printers, which would speed up production time. b

Ralph Lauren’s Foundation to Donate $10 Million to Coronavirus Fightby RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — Ralph Lauren’s foun-dation will dedicate $10 million to people affected by the coro-navirus.

The company he founded will continue to pay its workers through the pandemic and will manufacture gowns and masks for medical workers.

A statement posted Thursday on the company web page said

the money would go toward employees affected by the virus and to the broader fashion com-munity, to cancer patients vul-nerable to the virus and to the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

Elle reported that sepa-rately, the company said on Instagram that it would pay employees while the business

was closed.Women’s Wear Daily report-

ed that the company is ready to manufacture 25,000 gowns and 250,000 masks for medical workers.

Lauren, born Ralph Lifshitz, is the son of Jewish immi-grant parents from Belarus. He stepped down as CEO of the company in 2015, but remains its chief creative officer. b

Art teacher Daniel Ostrov and Stephanie Cole work making protective face shields for medical professionals using 3D printers in the school’s Fabrication Laboratory at Kohelet Yeshiva High School in Merion Station, Pa., March 2020, (Courtesy)

Gantz’s dramatic move jolt-ed Israel’s political system. The agreement led to the collapse of Gantz’s own Blue and White Party.

Senior party members Yair Lapid and Knesset member Moshe Ya’alon, who each led sep-arate factions within the larger Blue and White alignment, re-jected joining a government led by Netanyahu. The pair have of-ficially split from Gantz, and filed a motion to retain the name Blue and White as they prepare to sit in opposition to the government.

From the Knesset floor, where he currently serves as tempo-rary speaker, Gantz explained his decision, saying, “This is not the time for fighting and splits. This is the time for responsible statesmanship, patriotism and leadership.”

He called to the citizens of Israel and said, “Let’s join hands and lead Israel out of this crisis.”

Likud Knesset member Yoav Kisch told JNS that his party “blesses Netanyahu and Gantz for this courageous step. We are dealing with a health and eco-nomic crisis like we have never seen, and the public demanded that we as leaders act with re-sponsibility.”

Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, of the right-wing Yam-ina Party, told JNS that “this is

the right thing for Israel in this emergency.”

Knesset member Yair Lapid attacked Gantz for breaking Blue and White’s promise not to sit with Netanyahu as he awaits the start of a trial on three separate counts of bribery and breach of trust. “He crawled into Netanya-hu’s government … gave up with-out a fight,” said Lapid. “Over a million voters feel cheated, and that their votes were stolen and given to Netanyahu.”

“Corona,” he said, referring to the pandemic spreading around the globe, “is not a permit to give up on our values.”

Knesset member Merav Mi-chaeli of the Labor Party sar-castically congratulated Gantz for “joining a government led by an indicted prime minister.” She then turned towards him and said, “You promised not to join with Netanyahu. There is no unity with those who are de-stroying Israel.”

Details of New CoalitionThe details of the new coali-

tion are still being worked out, but it will most likely include 75 seats: Likud (36), Gantz’s Israel Resilience (15), Shas (9), United Torah Judaism (7) and Yamina (6), along with MKs Tzvi Hauser and Yoaz Hendel from the Telem faction. Hauser and Hendel are

former Netanyahu advisers who have been the strongest advo-cates for a unity government.

Preliminary reports indicate that Netanyahu will give Gantz’s party an equal number of min-istries to his own much larg-er Likud Party. Netanyahu has agreed to appoint former Israel Defense Forces’ Chief of Staff and Gantz ally Gabi Ashkenazi as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Chili Tropper as Justice Minister.

It is unclear what role Netanya-hu will have in 18 months once Gantz becomes prime minister because the law permits only that governmental position to maintain office while under in-dictment. Ministers with other portfolios are required by law to resign. The new government could pass a revised law allowing a minister to serve while under indictment.

Gantz has also requested the economy, agriculture, environ-ment, communications and cul-ture ministries.

Several ministers, including from Netanyahu’s Likud, will be forced to relinquish their portfo-lios. Yamina chairman Bennett, who is set to vacate his current post as defense minister, told JNS that so far, “the news about port-folios is fake news. Netanyahu has not spoken to me about this issue as of yet.” b

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North America (JFNA), which has been helping Jewish com-munal organizations and in-dividuals navigate the crisis, applauded the bill.

“It’s very significant, and it will benefit the Jewish commu-nity in many ways, and we’re very appreciative of the work that the Congress did,” JFNA president and CEO Eric Finger-hut told JNS.

Individuals earning up to $75,000 annually and heads of household (often, single par-ents with children) earning up to $112,500 annually would receive a $1,200 check, while couples earning up to $150,000 annually would earn $2,400. Those who exceed the income caps would have their benefits reduced by $5 for every $100 in additional income. Those inel-igible to receive a check would be individuals who earn at least $99,000; $146,500 for heads of household; and $198,000 for couples.

While large companies, such as airlines, are set to receive $500 billion in loans and other investments, small businesses and nonprofits, including those that receive Medicaid funding, would receive $349 billion in forgivable loans from the Small Business Administration (SBA). This would include $10 billion through the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) in which nonprofits and small businesses with no more than 500 employees would be eli-gible.

The provision to allow non-profits that receive Medicaid funds to receive loans was a “huge development for the Jew-ish community because all of our human-services agencies do receive Medicaid, as well as philanthropic support,” said Fingerhut.

The EIDL funds, which can’t have loans that exceed 4 per-cent, would convert into grants that don’t need to be repaid for money spent on payroll, mortgage payments, rent, utili-ties or other items through the end of June. They cover annu-al wages up to $100,000. The grants would be reduced when workers are terminated.

Most Jewish nonprofits will be eligible under EIDL, as the vast majority of them have fewer than 500 employees, ac-cording to Fingerhut. Those that do, such as a handful of Jewish health-care facilities, would be eligible for the funds that big businesses are set to receive.

Nonprofits would also receive unemployment insurance ex-pansion, employee retention tax credits, payroll tax-credit deferrals, assistance for non-public schools and FEMA di-saster loans.

Additionally, hospitals and community health centers, in-cluding Jewish ones, would get $100 billion.

Some $65 million is set to be allocated for housing for seniors and those with disabil-ities, including a number of those linked to the Jewish com-munity.

In a statement, B’nai B’rith International said it supported the bill for the provisions re-lated to small businesses and nonprofits and senior housing.

Moreover, the bill would allow individuals to deduct up to $300 in charitable contribu-tions only made this year even if they do not itemize on their federal tax returns; usually, taxpayers must itemize in order to receive such a deduction. The 2020 tax break would be in addition to the standard de-duction under the 2017 tax law ($12,400 for individuals and $24,800 for married couples filing jointly).

More than three-dozen non-profits, including JFNA, sent a letter last week to congressional offices, requesting $60 billion in relief funding due to the out-break.

On Wednesday, Trump held a conference call with more than 140 leaders of nonprofit orga-nization, when he “thanked the nonprofits for their tireless acts of service to Americans in need, such as delivering meals to children and hosting blood drives and donation drives for medical supplies,” according to a readout from the White House.

Fingerhut stressed the im-portance of nonprofits, includ-ing Jewish ones, in American society.

“Just as the country doesn’t want [to lose] its major indus-tries, so it does not want to lose its world-class nonprofit infra-structure and the Jewish com-munity is at the front of that world-class status,” he told JNS.

‘Continuing to Work With Our Elected Leaders’

The Orthodox Union ex-pressed appreciation, but also some criticism, in response to the bill.

“As the coronavirus pandem-ic strikes communities across the United States, we are grate-ful that the Senate passed this legislation, and we are par-ticularly thankful to Major-ity Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, the primary archi-tects of the CARES Act, who ensured it contains important aid to nonprofit organizations,” said OU executive director for public policy Nathan Dia-ment in a statement. “We also thank [Oklahoma Republican] Senator [James] Lankford and [Democratic Delaware] Senator [Chris] Coons and other legis-lators who tirelessly advocated to ensure that it contained pro-visions to help the charitable sector.”

“At the same time, we are dis-

appointed that Congress did not include a number of provisions in earlier drafts that would have offered much greater and much needed assistance to nonprofits, and those we serve, especially during this uncertain and pre-carious time,” continued Dia-ment. “We are committed to continuing to work with our elected leaders so that we can serve as a safety net for those who most need us.”

Duvi Honig, founder and CEO of the Orthodox Jewish Cham-ber of Commerce, an umbrella organization of various-sized businesses based in New York and New Jersey—two of the hardest-hit areas in the United States by the outbreak—told JNS that Jewish businesses, like others throughout the United States, “are in a standstill,” particularly kosher establish-ments, including caterers. “Many restaurants I know are struggling in debt and under no circumstances will be ap-proved for any loan, even from the SBA.”

Moreover, many Orthodox Jewish families stand to not benefit from the U.S. spending package considering that they “tend to be large, with five to eight children or more being the norm. An Orthodox lifestyle is costly, especially considering religious-school tuition, which runs anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000 per child,” according to Honig.

“The s t imu lus i ncome threshold of $150,000 a cou-ple does not account for the number of children in the household,” he continued. “So a couple with eight children that earned $151,000 in 2018 starts seeing a reduction in benefits and receives nothing if they earned over $198,000 two years ago.”

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism applaud-ed the SBA part of the bill that would aid nonprofits.

While the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism de-clined to talk about the spe-cifics of the bill, RAC director Rabbi Jonah Pesner told JTA, “We’re not separate. There will be Jewish people who get fired, Jewish small businesses who will go under, Jewish elderly, Jewish people with disabilities. This is about the Jewish com-munity and about the other. There’s no dichotomy.”

Fingerhut said that ahead of Passover, which begins at sundown on April 8 and ends at nightfall on April 16, the legislation “will give people reassurance … that everything that could possibly be done is being done.”

“It won’t change the fact that we’re all in our own homes, we’re not together, we’re not traveling, we’re not sharing our seders,” he continued. “But I do think people will see the response of the community.” b

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Cynicism and Suicide Pactsby NOAH ROTHMAN

When it’s a real crisis, you don’t have to argue the fact. Quite unlike the crises Donald Trump has faced thus far in his presidency — from a surge of migrants at the border to the ef-fects of climate change to even the prospect of direct conflict with Iran — no one is debating whether the Coronavirus pan-demic meets crisis proportions.

The federal and state gov-ernments are struggling to meet the measure of a crisis for which they did not fully prepare because its prospect was relatively remote. But even predictable crises that are per-fectly visible on the horizon are rarely the subject of much genuine public concern. The looming threat posed by the in-solvency of America’s unfunded liabilities and obligations is one such predictable crisis, albeit one that pales amid the urgen-cy of the present moment. The problem is, however, that it has paled against every moment. In times of peace and prosperity and periods of instability alike, the looming debt crisis takes a backseat. This is why it is so unsavory for congressional Republicans to take an uncom-promising stand on spending at this particular moment.

Late Thursday night, Senate Republicans proposed their version of a relief package for the millions of Americans who suddenly find themselves job-less or without reliable sources of income as the pandemic slows economic activity to a crawl. The so-called “Phase 3” relief package envisioned by Senate Republicans proposes a set of rebates for Americans, up to $1,200 for most individ-uals who reported less than $75,000 in 2018 and $2,400 per couple who made less than $150,000. Dependent children qualify for another $500 in additional benefits. But if you didn’t show enough income to pay income taxes in 2018, a smaller benefit is on offer: Just $600 for individuals, $1,200 per couple. The GOP plan would means-test assis-tance payments, cutting off in-dividuals who made more than $99,0000 and couples making $198,000 in income based on 2018’s tax filings.

Sen. Lindsey Graham un-derscored his conference’s concerns about what a larger relief package would mean for the national bottom line. “The federal government is going to underwrite probably 70 percent of the payroll in this country if

the containment policies con-tinue to be this aggressive,” he said. “Nobody’s ever thought of that before, nobody’s ever done that before, it’s gonna be a hell of a lot more than $1 trillion.” Indeed, he’s right. The price tag not just on this pack-age but the relief Republicans envision for small businesses and major industries, to say nothing of the frontline insti-tutions tasked with containing the disease, will be massive. That’s why you observe fiscal discipline in times of plenty. The borrowing the federal gov-ernment must do now would be a source of less concern if the country wasn’t in debt to the tune of $23 trillion.

But that discipline was no-where to be seen when Repub-licans enjoyed total control of the federal government from 2017 to 2019. Contrary to pro-gressives, federal receipts in 2018 increased by $24 billion despite (or, more accurately, because of) the GOP’s efforts to reform the tax code. As ever, the problem is not revenue but spending. Non-discretionary expenditures on items like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Se-curity, income supplements, and interest on the debt (which is estimated to soon consume

more tax dollars than the en-tire defense budget) are forever growing. On more discretion-ary items, the 115th Congress wasn’t exactly frugal either. Congress passed spending bills that burst through the caps imposed by the 2011 “seques-tration” deal. They increased defense spending by $83 bil-lion annually and conceded to Democratic demands for another $60 billion in non-de-fense spending. Amid all this, the Republican Party’s fiscal hawks subordinated their nag-ging consciences to their po-litical instincts, knowing full well that the bill would one day come due.

It would, however, be a mis-take to assume that the GOP’s more circumspect relief pack-age is a product of principle

alone. As Fox News Channel reporter Chad Pergram report-ed, the Republican effort is an attempt to wrest control of the negotiating process away from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Trea-sury Sec. Steve Mnuchin, and to impose caution on the president so he does not endorse whatev-er spending proposals Demo-crats introduce. The Republican relief proposal is, therefore, not a proposal at all but an opening bid.

Such cynical displays aren’t alien to Congress, but this kind of horse-trading amid an un-precedented financial emergen-cy isn’t just unseemly. It’s polit-ically tone-deaf. When the horse you’re trying to trade is Pesti-lence itself, your negotiating po-sition is downright suicidal. b

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no longer offer this book” be-cause it breaks the company’s code of conduct.

However, a few copies of the controversial book appear on Amazon and “on Amazon’s sub-sidiary AbeBooks, which oper-ates largely independently, hun-dreds of new and used copies of Mein Kampf are available,”

reported The New York Times.Leading Holocaust-education

charities and Jewish groups have campaigned since the late 1990s to stop Amazon from selling Mein Kampf. The retailer formerly defended itself by ad-vocating for free speech and the need for students to understand Hitler’s thought process. b

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The Molecules That Can Fight Coronavirusby NOAH ROTHMAN

“Like previous White House briefings, this one suffered from conflicting messages from the president and his advisers,” Bloomberg News reported today. “Trump, for example, said the malaria drug chloroquine had been approved and could be given to coronavirus patients with a prescription. But an FDA spokesperson clarified mid-press conference that the drug had not been approved for use with Covid-19 patients and FDA chief Stephen Hahn added it was only for use in trials at the moment.”

This “contradicting” of the president was, in fact, not a contradiction at all. Tantaliz-ing but very preliminary data around the world suggest drugs like Hydroxychloroquine and Remdesivir may be effective treatments for reducing the se-verity of the symptoms. Nei-ther is approved by the FDA for treating patients infected with Coronavirus, but that does not mean treatment is prohibited. The use of an approved drug for an unapproved purpose is infrequent but not uncommon. There is a standard for repur-posing existing molecules and, amid a global health crisis, that is a critical element of any ho-listic effort to stop the spread of this virus.

The FDA’s process for ap-proving new drugs is rigorous.

A drug-maker must demon-strate that it can manufacture a new drug safely and reliably in a replicable manner, a hur-dle many manufacturers fail to clear. After that, it must be shown that this new drug is safe in the proposed doses and with the prescribed regimen. That’s where clinical testing comes into play; children and the elderly, men and women, the healthy and those with chronic conditions — if the drug is not safe for everyone, establishing its potential tox-icities is determined through trials. Finally, a prospective new drug must be shown to be effective. Does it remedy all symptoms of a particular affliction or only some? If these three hurdles are cleared and a drug maker establishes duplica-ble Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) standards of which the FDA approves, the drug is then considered for approval.

A repurposed drug already has a CMC and a safety profile on record with the FDA. As long as pre-approved doses and regimen haven’t changed, all that needs to be established in order to use that repurposed drug is its safety and efficacy in its new role. For COVID-19, the benefits of repurposing chloroquine are obvious — it was long ago approved for use in treating Malaria. Antivi-

ral therapies like remdesivir, which is right now being pro-vided to patients in places like Seattle under controlled condi-tions, has never been approved by the FDA for broad human use. As Dr. Hahn noted, rem-desivir is being tested and prescribed for “compassion-ate use,” but mass distribution would require a substantial short-circuiting of the FDA’s approval process. By contrast, chloroquine in the doses al-ready approved would encoun-ter fewer limitations.

Hydroxychloroquine shows promise. A clinical trial of the drug in France found that the drug substantially shortened the timeline in which people who were infected suffered se-vere symptoms and, in combi-nation with antibiotics, reduced complications like associated lung infections. After six days of therapy, only one-quarter

of the patients who initially tested positive were still in-fected. What’s more, the drug is relatively inexpensive and not difficult to manufacture. “If clinical data confirm the biological results, the novel coronavirus-associated dis-ease will have become one of the simplest and cheapest to treat and prevent among in-fectious respiratory diseases,” concluded the researchers who published a February 15 paper in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.

But — and there’s a big “but” — even if this therapy is effec-tive at treating this disease, it will be a long time before any-one has access to it. The FDA probably does not have time for large-scale clinical trials, but chloroquine cannot be ap-proved for use against COVID-19 without testing a representa-tive sample of the population. A

disease that has the potential to infect a population so large that it includes almost everyone means the tested sample should be quite big. To be sure, the na-tion’s regulatory bodies become much less risk-averse in a crisis, and the FDA is no exception. Chloroquine might be subject to a conditional approval based on existing data that falls short of what would normally be need-ed for full approval, but even so, generating that data will take time. Even if “good clinical practices” are dispensed with, there still must be rigorous and standardized clinical testing in hundreds of patients. Even an expedited process will take many months before the drug reaches the point at which it can be distributed to the public.

The good news is that this process is likely already un-derway. Pharmaceutical man-ufacturers are crash-producing research and development pro-grams around existing mole-cules, including chloroquine. On Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services officials revealed, and Bayer confirmed, that the drug-maker had donated 3 million tablets of chloroquine to begin the pro-cess. This is not even the end of the beginning of the fight against this terrible new dis-ease, but it is a sign that the fight has begun. b

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Medicine …


On Sunday, the Rabbi Logged On to Zoom: A Bride and Groom Were Waiting

by BEN HARRIS(JTA) — Before everything

changed, Jalna Silverstein and Asael Papour were planning a wedding much like many other Jewish nuptials on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

They had a band and caterer lined up, a ceremony planned for the synagogue where Silver-stein grew up and all the little details mapped out, from the napkins to the chair coverings to the types of utensils.

And they had a date: March 29.

In February, as the corona-virus pandemic became more urgent in news headlines, the couple felt the first faint stir-rings of concern. An elderly friend of the groom’s family, citing his elevated risk for the disease, informed them he couldn’t make it.

Still, there were very few cases in New York, and the cancellation seemed more like a speed bump than a barrier.

As March arrived, howev-er, things began to look much bleaker.

“People with families and high-risk people started to show concern and ask us, are we still

on for the wedding? And what’s the plan”? Papour told the Jew-ish Telegraphic Agency.

So they put out some feelers to their guest list: Were people still planning to attend? Should they persevere or pull the plug?

“Nobody knew what to tell us,” Papour said.

As with so many things in the age of coronavirus, things moved slowly at first — and then very quickly. On March 11, the United States announced a 30-day ban on travel from Eu-rope. Papour’s family in Israel and Germany would not be able to get there.

“At that point things had es-calated here, too,” Silverstein said. “To my mother’s dismay, after hard planning and utter disappointment, I had to break it to my mom that I don’t think this is going to happen.”

At least not as originally planned. They canceled the band and the caterer and bumped up the date a week, hoping to stay ahead of an ex-pected ban on public gather-ings. But they were determined the wedding was going to hap-pen in some form.

That form wound up being

online. A small group would gather in Silverstein’s syna-gogue — immediate family, a handful of close friends and a rabbi — and everyone else could watch a livestream. It seemed, amid the swirling chaos all around them, the wedding would still happen.

Then on Friday afternoon, with two days to go to the now online-only ceremony, the rabbi called.

“He sounds awful,” Papour said. “It sounds like he can’t breathe.”

At a time when even a light cough can inspire mortal fear, the couple decided to wait and check in after Shabbat. But when the rabbi called on Sat-urday night, the news was bad: He felt worse.

He had an idea, though: If the guests could participate in the ceremony over videoconfer-ence, why couldn’t the officiant, too?

So, on Sunday afternoon, Sil-verstein and Papour — she in a white gown, he in a black suit — stood in front of a camera in the chapel at Ansche Chesed on West 100th Street, the dis-embodied head of Rabbi Jere-

my Kalmanofsky staring back at them from a laptop screen perched on a rostrum.

Friends tuning in online got decked out in tuxedos and other wedding finery (“I’m going to do my hair for the first time in three weeks,” one told Silver-stein). The handful of guests in the room with the newlyweds kept a respectful distance in keeping with social distancing

regulations.Hours later, the governor

issued a statewide lockdown order that banned nonessential gatherings of any size. And Kalmanofsky’s coronavirus test came back negative.

“It’s been a fun turn of events,” Papour said. “Luckily we’re both mutable enough to go with the flow. We really didn’t have a choice.” b

invited attendees post hateful and graphic material, often including pornographic, rac-ist and anti-Semitic images in Zoom video conferences. As life moves online in the time of coronavirus, Zoombombing is increasing.

This week, Zoom was the number one downloaded appli-cation on the Apple App Store: it was downloaded 2.13 million times in a single day, according to tracking firm Apptopia. As many companies have transi-tioned to telecommuting, Zoom has become an indispensable tool for working from home — and for spreading anti-Semitism and other hatred.

Zoombombing has affected synagogues, schools and even the restaurant chain Chipotle, which was Zoombombed by a

participant who broadcasted pornography to hundreds of attendees during a public con-ference.

Ultimately, district staff in Conejo Valley were able to close the meeting. Local law enforcement is investigating the incident, and Zoom has been notified. Based on the fact that material was targeted to individual board members, it is likely that the perpetra-tors were local residents. There were anywhere from one to three participants spreading hateful imagery and messages.

Goldberg said when she was running for Board of Educa-tion president, she considered not emphasizing her last name on campaign materials. She ultimately decided not to, but an episode like the one that

occurred Tuesday night “makes you wonder.”

Zoom has posted guidance for how to avoid unwanted visitors on their platform, in-cluding only allowing users to join the meeting with the email to which the invite was sent, using the right privacy settings and disabling the video feature. The company encouraged users in an emailed statement to re-port such incidents here.

Goldberg attends a Conserva-tive synagogue and one of her three children wears a kippah. After Tuesday’s incident, she said she wants him to wear a baseball hat to cover it when he walks the streets.

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Stress Won’t Kill You, but Your Reaction

to It Mightby W. GIFFORD-JONES, MD and DIANA GIFFORD-JONES“Don’t underestimate the

value of doing nothing,” wrote one of the world’s foremost philosophers, Winnie-the-Pooh, “of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” Doing nothing is exactly what a lot of us are facing for an extended period of time. But “not bothering” is probably not how most of us are feeling.

We’re worried about our families, our next meals, our jobs, the bills, the economy. For some, self-isolation, quar-antine, or lockdown is a risk factor for domestic abuse. Many people are trapped in truly precarious situations, far away from home or from needed medication. Others are just alone, and it feels like solitary confinement with no prospect of human interaction for weeks to come.

These adverse circumstanc-es amount to considerable stress. Yet, there’s hope, as it’s not the stressors that will kill you, but rather how you react. In other words, your home isn’t going to hurt you, but your physical reaction to being cooped up might do some damage. For example, you might be fearfully pro-ducing the chemicals in your body and brain that cause your heart rate to increase, breathing to quicken, muscles to tighten, and blood pressure to rise. Your behavioral choic-es and how those around you handle tension can also have a huge impact on your health.

As Lou Holtz, the American football coach says, “It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s how you carry it.” Let’s do what we can to ensure that the current crisis doesn’t manifest an avalanche of cases of anxi-ety and depression.

We’ve seen examples of how people are alleviating stress amid the COVID-19 crisis. Neighbors are joining in song from their balconies in China and Italy. Social media is alive with suggestions for fun, so-

ciable activities you can do online in groups. Musicians are streaming concerts online. And everywhere, families are getting quality time together.

But being stuck at home can lead people to adopt un-healthy behaviors too. The most easily accomplished of these are smoking and eating too much. It you have start-ed smoking, then seek help. Smoking will only pile on the problems. As for food, don’t let this be a time for poor diet choices. Those who struggle with weight management should focus on losing weight, not gaining it. Join an online exercise group and remember to step on the scale every day.

Difficult relationships can be made worse when confined in close quarters. So use the oc-casion to talk out the troubles. Find common ground. Put time into building the founda-tion for new beginnings. And reach out to professionals who can help you.

Even without the COVID-19 pandemic, anxiety is already the world’s top driver of poor mental health. The incidence of anxiety is certainly sky-rocketing now. So before you run for more pills, try proven natural approaches. Exercise is one of the best remedies. Yoga, meditation, even read-ing a good book. If you are having trouble sleeping, turn off the TV and put away your phone. Try using a weighted blanket, which has a natural comforting effect.

Finally, think about al l those who may need a little help with day-to-day living during these difficult times. Call someone who may be lonely. Check to see if seniors in your neighbourhood have the supplies they need. Offer help and reassurance to those who may be facing uncertain-ty about their job security. And show appreciation for all those on the front lines of the pandemic — most especially by staying home and keeping healthy yourself. b

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touted as a possible treatment for the coronavirus (COVID-19), to U.S. hospitals free of charge.

It said 6 million doses will be delivered by March 31 and more than 10 million in a month.

“We are committed to help-ing to supply as many tablets as possible as demand for this treatment accelerates, at no cost,” said Teva executive vice president Brendan O’Grady. “Immediately upon learning of the potential benefit of hy-roxychloroquine, Teva began

to assess supply and to urgently acquire additional ingredients to make more product while ar-ranging for all of what we had to be distributed immediately.”

The company added that it will also conduct research to see if among its catalog of 3,500 drugs, others can be used to fight COVID-19.

Hydroxychloroquine is ap-proved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of malaria, lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. It is currently under investigation to determine its

effectiveness against COVID-19. According to a study on

24 patients with coronavirus conducted by Professor Didi-er Raoult, director of France’s Institut Hospitalo Universitaire for the study of infectious dis-eases, six days after the start of taking hydroxychloroquine, the virus had disappeared in three-quarters of people treat-ed. However top scientists, in-cluding White House coronavi-rus task force member Anthony Fauci, have said that further study is necessary before they can encourage the pill’s use. b

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in downtown Toronto. The setup — desk, bed, couch, TV, kitchenette but no dining table — fits her usual busy lifestyle, which doesn’t involve a ton of cooking and eating meals on her couch or at her desk.

But it’s not ideal for conduct-ing a Passover seder, the festive meal that is rich with symbolic rituals and involves much more than a normal plate of food.

“Just the thought of me hav-ing a miniature seder tray re-ally depresses me,” she said.

Yet that’s exactly what Berg-man is likely to do when Pass-over begins on the night of April 8. The Passover seder is one of the most observed Jewish rites, but the corona-virus pandemic is testing that commitment, especially for younger and less religiously observant Jews like Bergman.

Unable to head home or get together with friends for the holiday, they will have to go it alone — or forgo the central celebration of the first major Jewish holiday of the corona-virus era.

Alyssa Feller, a 29-year-old aspiring comedy writer and ex-ecutive assistant at an anima-tion company in Los Angeles, is paring her celebration this year. She’s part of a network-ing group for executive assis-tants in the entertainment in-dustry, and three years ago she helped form a Jewish subset. The members have celebrated Jewish holidays together in the form of big dinners that usu-ally end with a game of Cards Against Humanity or some other form of secular fun.

Raised in a “Reform slash nonreligious” home in Florida, Feller said holidays were more about coming together as a family than religious obser-vance. She’ll keep to the spir-it of the holiday on her own,

and probably phone her par-ents at some point during the meal, but she’s bummed out that social distancing means she won’t get to continue the fun tradition she has started with her Jewish friends and colleagues.

At its peak, the group brought together more than 30 guests for the seder.

“I’ll probably do the same thing I do every day of the week, which is wake up, eat breakfast, sign into my com-puter, work online and make dinner at the end of it,” Feller said. “I’ve already planned it out: I’m going to make some matzah ball soup … maybe make some of my own char-oset, with matzah, maybe get a jar of gefilte fish, maybe get one of those rotisserie chick-ens, and just do that. Maybe if I feel super nostalgic, I’ll go on a Jewish kids learning website and I’ll print out a paper seder plate.”

Recogniz ing that many people face the same predic-ament, an entire cottage in-dustry has emerged over the past few weeks. Jewish insti-tutions across the denomina-tional spectrum are pumping out online guides, webinars and other resources to help make solo seder-making feel more doable.

Rabbi Louis Polisson co-au-thored one of those resources, an eight-page guide titled “A Different Pesach: Ideas for the Solo Seder” that advocates for keeping things simple. Polis-son, who leads Congregation Or Atid in Wayland, Massa-chusetts, said he realizes how difficult leading a seder on one’s own will be.

In order to preserve the spirit of the seder — the ritual is built on questioning, storytell-ing and reflecting on the resil-ience of the Jewish people — he said feel free to incorporate other forms of spiritual prac-tice, like meditation or yoga. Think about what the seder foods mean a little before and while eating them. Lean into the musical aspect of the meal.

“Even if you’re not a good singer, sing to yourself, or to your neighbors, or to your fam-ily or friends over the phone or video call,” he said.

But including the seder plate, with its many symbolic elements, is essential for Jona-than Katz, a Reconstructionist 28-year-old urban planning graduate student and research-er at the University of Mary-land. He’s keeping the number of participants in his Zoom call low, only including his mother, his cousin and his partner, so that everyone can hear each other clearly.

“We’re experimenting with seder plate ideas — might be people have different parts, or one person has a set-up plate,” he said.

David Kraemer, a professor and librarian at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, points out that the Zoom context — he’s started to deal with it as a teacher — doesn’t capture the warmth of a room full of people. He said the cir-cumstances this year will like-ly make Jews appreciate the normal tradition, which for many involves coming together with family, that much more.

But he also pointed out that Jews have had to deal with much more precarious situa-tions in the past — from the Middle Ages, which saw the ravage of plagues on a much more frequent basis, to the time before the Spanish Inqui-sition, when Jews were forced to hide their faith by arduously cooking bread (so as not to raise suspicion) a specific way to render it kosher for Passover.

“If Jewish tradition weren’t vigorous and creative in times of challenge, we would’ve dis-appeared a long time ago,” Kraemer said. “We’ve been here before, we’re here now and we could do an important job, a really reasonable job, of celebrating this and engaging its rituals whatever our limita-tions might be.”

Bergman is still deciding what her Passover will look like. Like most, she has been following the coronavirus news, perhaps a l itt le too closely. (“Most people have broken at some point, or are going to break … I haven’t yet but I will,” she said.) She isn’t sure whether she should travel to her parents’ house in the northern part of the city — until recent years her parents would host 30 family members or more for the holiday meal — but she is sure that her mother will continue to play a key role in organizing her seder.

Shopping for kosher for Pass-over food, difficult in Toronto in a normal year, is now even a tougher undertaking, so Berg-man’s mom is ordering catered kosher food. The company will wrap the food into individual servings for Bergman and her two siblings in case the family members decide to eat at their own homes and communicate with each other over a Zoom call.

“I was just assuming that if my mom drops off the food, she’s going to drop off a Hag-gadah for me,” Bergman said.

And while Feller, too, is still refining her plan, there’s one personal tradition that she’ll make sure to sustain — one that falls squarely within so-cial distancing guidelines. As she does every Passover, she will make time to watch “The Prince of Egypt,” the animated DreamWorks film about the exodus from Egypt.

“I think I’m the only per-son who likes that movie,” she said, “so I watch it myself.” b

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Philadelphia 76ers Co-owner Says He Will Produce Masks for Pandemic Responders

by RON KAMPEAS(JTA) — Michael Rubin, a

partner in the NBA’s Philadel-phia 76ers and the owner of Fa-natics sportswear, plans to make a million masks and gowns for emergency workers out of the same material used for Major League Baseball uniforms.

Rubin on Thursday told Sports Philadelphia, an NBC affiliate, that he was working with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, Attorney General Josh Shapiro and MLB Ccommission-

er Rob Manfred to repurpose a plant in Easton, Pennsylvania, to make the gear.

“We’re fortunate to have this giant factory in Pennsylvania that makes all these baseball jerseys,” Rubin said, “and to have the com-missioner of baseball behind us, and to have the governor and attorney general saying, ‘How do we make a difference?’”

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Why Passover Is About a Lot More Than Good Food

by JOSHUA RATNER(My Jewish Learning via JTA)

— What is the essence of Pass-over?

On the one hand, it seems obvious: Passover is about gath-ering together with loved ones to recall, through sumptuous home rituals, the exodus from Egypt. We gather round our seder tables and quickly be-come engulfed in the warmth of family and friends, the culinary delights of a delicious meal, and the comforting, vaguely familiar words and songs we recite year after year.

Passover is, indeed, a beau-tiful opportunity for rejoicing and celebrating. But it also can be much, much more.

Looking closely at the Pass-over Haggadah, we can see that the rabbis who crafted the seder did not choose to make Passover a holiday solely fo-cused on celebrating the past. Like the Fourth of July (or Ha-nukkah), Passover could have been a day to recall passively our independence from an op-pressive regime as a historical remembrance; to commem-orate the past and salute our Founding Fathers (or Macca-bees).

Instead, Moses (as Founding Father of the Israelites) is large-ly shut out of the Haggadah — he appears but once. While remembrance of the exodus — from the enslavement of the Israelites to the 10 plagues to the crossing of the Red Sea — forms a major portion of the content of the Maggid (re-telling) section of the Hagga-dah, that remembrance is but a means to a larger end.

The end of the Maggid sec-tion reveals why. It says: “In each and every generation peo-ple must regard themselves as though they personally left Egypt, as it says, ‘Tell your child on that very day: “This is what G–d did for me when I left Egypt.’” The Holy One of Blessing did not redeem only

our ancestors, but G–d even redeemed us with them, as it says, ‘G–d brought us out of there in order to bring us to and gave us the land that G–d swore to our ancestors.’”

The seder specifically, and Passover more broadly, is about remembering G–d’s deliverance of the Israelites not as a one-time, historical event but as something that is perpetual-ly happening in the present. Redemption from slavery to freedom is intended to be an ex-perience that we, too, can and should have during our seders. But why?

I believe that the seder is a literary means of experien-tial education. The Haggadah wants each of us to recall that we were once estranged, dis-enfranchised, and marginal-ized so that each of us will cultivate a sense of empathy for the estranged, the disen-franchised, and the marginal-ized in our society today.

We honor our past by acting in our present!

So as we get ready for Pass-over, cleansing our houses of hametz, preparing our Hag-gadah selections and invite lists, may we also take action to cleanse our society of pover-ty, bigotry, and hatred.

As my col league Abby Levine, director of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable, re-cently wrote:

“There could not be a better moment to consider the inter-sections of Judaism and social justice than now. Our world, our country, our community, is crying out for fairness and equity, in a multitude of ways. And Passover is just days away, the holiday when we retell the Exodus story and ask questions of freedom and liberation.”

Indeed, there has been an explosion of new and creative social justice-themed Haggad-ot and seder inserts created in recent years by Jewish organi-zations.

Last year alone, there are new additions about glob-al justice (AJWS), LGBTQ r i g h t s ( Ke s h e t ) , hu n -ger and m i l i t a r y fam i-l ies (Mazon), wealth in-e qua l i t y (R RC) , r ac i a l justice (RAC), mass incarcera-tion (Truah), and refugees (Re-pair the World/HIAS), to name but a few. So please consider using any of these, tweet at ActOnPassover, or make use of other resources that speak to you and help you concretize our ongoing mandate to seek out freedom and redemption for all of G–d’s children.

And may each of you be blessed with a happy, fulfill-ing, and meaningful Passover. Hag sameah (happy holi-day)! b

Rabbi Joshua Ratner is the director of the Jewish Commu-nity Relations Council of New Haven, Connecticut.

Ordained by the Jewish Theo-

logical Seminary in May 2012, Ratner was a Joseph Neubauer Fellow and also earned a mas-ter’s degree in Midrash and a

certificate in pastoral care. He worked as an attorney for five years prior to entering rabbini-cal school.

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Roasted Beet Salad With Baby Arugula, Feta, and EdamameServes 2

Salad

2 golden beets, rinsed and scrubbed

2 red or Chioggia beets, rinsed and scrubbed

2 tablespoons olive oil1/2 teaspoon kosher salt1/3 cup frozen shelled

edamame2 cups baby arugula1/4 teaspoon freshly

ground black pepper2 ounces feta cheese,

crumbled

1/4 cup salted toasted sunflower seeds

Flaky sea salt

Vinaigrette

1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

2 teaspoons champagne vinegar

To make the salad: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.

Trim off the beets root ends and the leafy tops. Leave the beets whole.

Set the beets on the baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon of the kosher salt, cover with another sheet of foil, and seal the edges. Roast for about 45 minutes, until

the beets are tender. When cool enough to handle, remove the skins with a paring knife, then let cool completely. Cut into bite-size chunks or wedges.

While the beets are cooking. Boil the edamame in salted boiling water for 5 minutes, then drain well. Let cool slightly.

To make the vinaigrette: In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil and vinegar until well blended.

In a large mixing bowl, add the arugula. Season with the remain-ing 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt and the freshly ground black pepper. Drizzle with the vinaigrette and toss to combine. Transfer to a serv-ing platter or bowl. Top with the roasted beet wedges, edamame, and crumbled feta, and sprinkle with the sunflower seeds and sea salt. m

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Roasted Garlic Chicken Stuffed With Dried Fruits and NutsYield: 4 servings

1 head garlicExtra virgin olive oilSaltFreshly ground black pepper10-12 dried apricots5 dried Mission figs1/2 cup shelled, raw

pistachio nuts, (unsalted and not roasted)

1 whole (3-5 pound) chicken washed and patted dry

1/2 orange, unpeeled, sliced2 sprigs fresh rosemaryKitchen twine2 tablespoons

margarine, melted

Preheat oven to 375 degreesHolding the head of garlic on

its side, cut the top 1-2 inches off the top of the bulb to expose the cloves. Place the head in the cen-ter of a square of foil, on a small baking pan. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Close the foil packet. Roast for 45 minutes – 1 hour.

Meanwhile, in a food processor fitted with a metal blade, chop the apricots, dried figs and pistachios into very small pieces.

With your fingers, loosen the skin of the chicken going under the breasts, thighs, and legs.

Massage the fruit mixture under the skin, getting it into the cavities where the skin was loosened.

Stuff the orange slices and the rosemary into the cavity of the chicken. Tie the legs closed with kitchen twine. Place the chicken on a rack in a roasting pan; try not

to let too much of the fruit and nuts drip out into the pan, they will burn.

When the garlic is soft and car-amelized, remove it from the oven and squeeze the roasted garlic out of the skin. Rub it all over the out-side of the chicken.

Drizzle the margarine over the top of the chicken, letting it run down the sides.

Bake uncovered for 11/2 hours, basting 2-3 times with the pan juices. m

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Orange-Roasted Rainbow Carrots

1 pound orange carrots, unpeeled

1 pound rainbow carrots, unpeeled

Good olive oilKosher salt and freshly

ground black pepper1 teaspoon grated orange zest2 tablespoons freshly

squeezed orange juice1 teaspoon fleur de sel

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.Remove the tops and scrub the

orange and rainbow carrots with a vegetable brush. Cut the carrots in long diagonal slices. (You want fairly uniform sticks about 4 inches long by 1/2 inch wide.)

Place the carrots on a sheet pan, drizzle with 3 tablespoons olive oil, and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon kosher salt and 1/2 teaspoon pep-

per. Toss well with your hands and spread out in one layer.

Roast for 15 to 20 minutes, turning once, until the carrots are lightly browned and tender. Sprinkle with the orange zest, or-ange juice, and fleur de sel and toss well. Serve hot or at room temperature. m

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Spinach Kugelettes

16-ounce frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained

3 tablespoons oil2 onions diced2 tablespoons mayonnaise2 tablespoons water2 eggs1 tablespoon potato starch1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder1/4 teaspoon onion powder

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a muffin tin or a 9” round pan.

Heat oil in a large skillet. Add onions and sauté until translucent.

Discard any liquid that drained from spinach. Add spinach to on-ions and cook 15 minutes. Remove

from heat.Cool slightly; add mayonnaise

and water. Beat eggs in a small bowl, then add to skillet, stirring constantly so the eggs don’t curdle. Add remaining ingredients.

Divide mixture evenly among cups of prepared muffin pan or spread mixture in prepared 9” pan.

Bake 35 minutes for kugelettes and 45 minutes for kugel. m

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Farfel Marshmallow TreatsYield about 4 dozen

1/4 cup butter3 1/2 cup Passover

marshmallows (with or without coconut coating)

1 cup nuts (walnuts or almonds)

5 cups matzo farfel

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon2 large (about 3 oz. each)

Passover chocolate bars

Melt butter on low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until melt-ed. Remove from heat.

Chop nuts with quick on/off turns, until finely chopped. Add half the nuts to the marshmallows,

Reserve remaining nuts for gar-nish. Stir in matzo farfel and cin-namon. Mix well. Spread evenly in a buttered 9 x 13 pan. Wet hands and pat down evenly.

Melt chocolate. Drizzle over farfel mixture. Sprinkle with re-served nuts. Cool until chocolate is set. Cut in squares. m

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The Seder plate holds pride of place at the Seder table. Here’s your chance to create your own modern-day heirloom.

What you will need: • glass charger or serving plate• 5-lb. bag of sea glass

pieces, found in the floral

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How to do it:1. Working with a 2-inch sec-

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layer of glue on the plate’s upper rim. Glue down the glass shards, fitting them together in an artistic pattern. Continue gluing on more pieces in the same manner until the rim is completely covered. You will need to hold down the glass for a few seconds so that the pieces don’t slide around.

2. For a second layer, spread a small amount of glue on the back of each piece and attach it to the top of the first layer. You can add as many layers as you like in the same manner.

3. Clean up any glue drips with a damp paper towel. (The glue gums up and can be pulled off easily.) Let dry for at least 24 hours before using.

4. Place small plates or bowls onto your seder plate to hold the symbolic foods.

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Praline Strips

3-4 whole matzos1 cup or 2 sticks unsalted

butter or margarine1 cup dark brown sugar12 ounces chocolate chips or

chopped chocolate bars1 cup finely chopped pecans

or chopped almonds

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cover a large cookie sheet with aluminum foil. (I like to use a dis-

posable sheet, as the sheet gets very sticky and messy.)

Grease the foil with butter or margarine. Lay the matzos in a single layer, breaking as needed to fill the sheet completely. Set aside.

In a large saucepan, melt the butter or margarine over medi-um-low heat. Add the brown sugar; boil for 5 minutes, stirring con-stantly. Watch carefully to make sure it doesn’t boil over.

Pour the brown sugar mixture

over the matzos, spreading evenly. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Turn the oven off. Remove the pan and sprinkle the chocolate over the matzos. Place it back in the oven for another 8 minutes.

Remove from the oven and spread the chocolate in an even layer. Sprinkle with the chopped pecans or almonds. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Break into pieces. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. m

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Best-Ever Sponge CakeYield: 10-12 servings

2 large lemons9 large eggs, separated2 cups sugar1/4 cup club soda1/2 cup potato starch1/2 cup matzo cake meal

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Using a microplane or very this grat-er, zest 2 teaspoons of lemon peel from the lemons making sure to get only the yellow part, not the bitter white pith. Set aside. Cut the lemons and squeeze 1/4 cup of lemon juice. Set aside.

Beat the egg whites until stiff; set aside. In a separate bowl, beat the egg yolks, sugar, club soda, and reserved lemon juice for 3 minutes on medi-

um-high speed. Gradually add in the potato starch and matzo cake meal,

Using a rubber spatula, fold the whites into the yolk mixture. Add the lemon zest. Beat for 2 minutes. Pour into an ungreased tube pan. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Invert until completely cool. Run a knife around the cake and remove from pan. m

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The water level currently stands at -209.29 meters (687 feet below sea level), only 49 centimeters (19 inches) short of the Upper Red Line, the point at which a dam would have to be opened to prevent flooding, the Israel Water Authority reported Monday.

Monday’s measurement rep-resents a rise of 2 cm (0.78 inches) since Sunday.

The Water Authority has measured the water level of the Sea of Galilee — Israel’s main freshwater source — daily since 1969. To date, the lowest level

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Unsung Women: Edith Steinby IRENE CONNELLY

Who she was: Edith SteinWhere and when: Germany,

1891-1942Who she worshipped: Al-

though Stein was born into an Orthodox German Jewish family, she converted to Ca-tholicism as a young woman and became a Carmelite nun. In the Catholic world, she soon became a significant intellectu-al voice, translating the works of Thomas Aquinas and writ-ing her own treatises on the philosopher’s work. She even started lecturing in Catholic academic institutions before, under the laws of the new Nazi regime, she was forced to resign in 1933.

Why she mattered: As Hitler came to power in Germany, Stein wrote an impassioned letter to Pope Pius XI, urging him to take a stand against the Nazis. She called the pope’s attention to the growing con-sequences of state-sponsored anti-Semitism and accused the Nazis of heresy for their “idol-atry of the race and of state power.” Her argument compar-ing fascism to idolatry was an especially brave one, as Pius XI had for years been a public sup-porter of fascism in Italy. Her pleas went unheeded. While scattered efforts by local Cath-olic individuals and institutions saved thousands of Jews, Pius XI refused to condemn or to publicize the Holocaust, even after the war ended.

What happened: In 1938 Stein fled Germany to a Carmelite convent in the Netherlands, but she was eventually arrested by the Gestapo and murdered at Auschwitz. Although her appeals for protection from the Church failed during her life, Jews and Catholics recognized her bravery in the decades after WWII, and Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1998. Although she died for her Jewish ances-try, she became a saint for her Catholic faith. b© Forward, reprinted with authorization.

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EFRAT, Israel — ‘And [Moses] brought near the second ram, the consecration-inauguration ram, and Aaron and his sons leaned their hands upon the head of the ram. And [Moses] slaughtered it’ (Lev. 8:22-23)

The second part of our por-tion of Tzav deals with the seven-day induction ceremony of Aaron and his sons as the priests-kohanim of the Sanc-tuary. Moses the Prophet con-ducts the proceedings: First he “invests” them, dressing them in their unique priestly garb, father and sons; and then he slaughters the second ram, the consecration-inauguration ram, “which fills and completes the function of the priests [father and sons] within their priest-hood” (Rashi ad loc).

I would submit that the seemingly insignificant phrase “and [Moses] slaughtered it” in the introductory text to our commentary, is one of the most poignant and moving phrases of the entire Bible which also illuminates the purpose of the priest-kohen in contrast to the prophet The secret to under-standing Moses’ tragedy and Aaron’s gift lies in the nuances of interpretation which ema-nate from a rare cantillation “trope” — the shalshelet — which appears above the let-ter “het” in the Hebrew word vayishhat (“and he (Moses) slaughtered.”) The cantillation tropes provide the musical accompaniment to the words of the Bible, telling the Torah

reader when to pause (as in a comma), when to stop (at the end of a verse), when to sound decisive and when to strike a high note. None of the tropes are as distinctive, or as lengthy, as is the shalshelet; it appears only four times in the Bible, usually connoting the drama of confused hesitancy and deep apprehension.

For example, when Joseph is alone with Mrs. Potiphar, and she attempts to seduce him, he refuses — “vayi’ma’en,” (Genesis 39:8). Remember he is lonely and alone, a stranger in a strange land, feeling re-jected by his family and needy for even a fleeting moment of warmth and physical connec-tion. He is mindful of how his father would view such an act of adultery, and yet apprehen-sive that a refusal could cause this powerful woman to destroy him. The lengthy and meander-ing shalshelet atop the alef of va’yi’ma’en suggests all of the conflicting complexities within Joseph’s refusal.

But what is complex about slaughtering a ram? Why does the evocative and dramatic shalshelet appear in our verse describing the consecration of Aaron and his sons? In order to understand this, we must realize that the initial plan was for Moses to have received the Kehuna-priesthood, the hereditary leadership function in Israel.

However, when the Almighty suggests to Moses that he be

His emissary to Pharaoh to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, Moses demurs, again and again refusing the mantle of leader-ship (Exodus 3:10-4:17), declar-ing himself to be unworthy. At length, “the Lord became angry with Moses, and He said, ‘Is there not Aaron your broth-er, the Levite? He will surely speak….he will be your mouth-piece, and you will provide for him [the words] of G–d.’” In this context, G–d initially re-fers to Aaron as the Levite, not as the kohen-priest; But when Moses keeps refusing to be the emissary, G–d removes the dy-nastic priesthood from Moses and bestows it upon Aaron Rashi ad loc)

And I believe that this switch in role was much more than a result of G–d’s anger; it rather had to do with the different functions of priest and prophet and the different personalities and functions of Aaron and Moses.

Moses was a man of G–d (Deut. 33:1); his active intellect actually “kissed” the active intellect of the Divine, and so Moses was able, by dint of his almost “super human” qualities of mind and soul, to communicate G–d’s Torah to Israel and all posterity. We do see from here, however, that Moses had no difficulty in communication; indeed he communicated in his words the biblical book of Deuterono-my (see the Abarbenel) so why does Moses describe himself

as “heavy of speech”? I be-lieve that what he meant was that he had little patience for small talk, for human fellow-ship, he was totally immersed in his discussions with G–d, in learning and communicat-ing Torah. So involved was he with Divine that he divorces his wife; he even neglects to circumcise his son Eliezer (Ex-odus 4:24-25).

Moses only seeks Divine fellowship and Divine Torah talk; and such endowments of intellect and spirit cannot be passed down as an inher-itance to the next generation; they are sui generis, to the one greatest prophet who ever lived. As the Bible confirms, “Never again has there arisen in Israel a Prophet like Moses, whom Hashem has known “face to face” (Deut: 34:10).

Aaron, on the other hand, was a man of the people, who loved making peace between individuals.

He loved all of humanity and through loving acts and words, brought everyone close to Torah (Avot 1: 13)

Moses acquired the Torah intellectually, but Aaron taught it to the masses with love. And acts of loving- kindness can be passed down from parent to child, from generation to gen-eration; to speak loving words and to do loving deeds can be learned and bequeathed. And so Aaron is blessed with the Kehunah-Priesthood, sanctify-ing him and his descendants

to bless the nation Israel with love. Aaron was the loving Ko-hen-Priest teaher of the nation of Israel; Moses was the lonely servant of G–d who faithfully provided the Torah for all eter-nity.

Nevertheless, Moses the human being would have loved to see his sons assume reli-gious leadership positions in Israel; but they do not. And when he is thrust in the posi-tion of directing the investiture of Aaron and his sons, and especially when he slaughters the consecration-inauguration ram expressing the dynastic aspect of the priesthood, Moses cannot help but hesitate to give vent to feelings of loss, frustra-tion and even a little jealousy, as well as apprehension as to his own continuity within his own family line. Moses, who gave himself over completely to G–d and nation, understands at this pivotal moment the per-sonal sacrifice it had cost, the loss of family closeness and continuity it had engendered. This I believe is the message of the shalshele, the tragedy of Moses’ life although — or perhaps because — he was G–d’s most faithful servant to all eternity. His pre-occupation with G–d may hae been the reason he failed to bring the Is-raelites into the Promised Lan; but because of that pre-occu-pation, the world receive its greatest legacy — G–d’s and Moses’ Torah!. b

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Parshat Tzav Leviticus 6:1-8:36 BY RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN

Chief Rabbi of the City of Efrat, and Dean of Ohr Torah Institutions of Israel

Is the Mikveh Safe From COVID-19? Some Women Opt for the Ocean.

by KELSEY OSGOODIt’s been years since I read

‘The Rebbe’s Army’, journal-ist Sue Fishkin’s 2003 book on Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim, but one anecdote has stuck with me ever since: when Chabad’s emissary to Alaska took a con-gregant to a local lake for her monthly immersion, the two women were surprised by a family of moose, who had cho-sen the same spot for a quick evening bath.

When I conjured this image, I chuckled. But never in my life did I think Jews across the world would be contemplating putting themselves in similar scenarios.

From synagogues closing their doors to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ordering the cessation of all communal worship, from the possible cancellation of the an-nual pilgrimage to Mecca to the Pope bowing out of public gath-erings, much has been written about how the pandemic has disrupted the rhythms of reli-gious life.

Add mikveh usage to the list of faith traditions that have been thrown into question by the virus — and this one, you can’t perform via Zoom.

The primary users of mikve-hs today are Orthodox women, who immerse seven days after their period ends, before they are able to resume physical intimacy of any kind, includ-ing sexual relations, with their husbands. The ritual is so cru-cial to Orthodox life (after all, no kosher sex means no Jew-ish babies) that a community is required to build a mikveh before it builds a synagogue. Women who grew up Orthodox were often told stories about the horrors their female ances-tors endured to immerse, from sub-zero temperatures in Sibe-ria to grimy Lower East Side basements to clandestine river dips during the Warsaw Ghetto. Today, many modern mikvehs are more like spas, with tiny shampoo bottles, plush towels, and excellent shower pressure in the rooms where women pre-pare themselves before dunk-

ing. But these modern mikvehs have one thing that their more threadbare predecessors didn’t: the potential to be breeding grounds for the new corona-virus.

The milieu seems obvious-ly problematic. Even if, as the CDC has stated, chlorine kills the virus, there are the shared showers, toilets, and toiletry items, like pumice stones to wear down callouses and scis-sors to clip nails. This is not to mention the ubiquitous reasons many others are already staying home, such as avoiding touch-ing doorknobs, buzzers, and hand railings.

Mikveh attendants, rabbis, and healthcare professionals in Israel and the United States are finding themselves advising anxious women about how to use the mikveh safely during this time. They’re also rushing to create standardized guide-lines for sanitizing the facilities and for proper conduct between attendants and users.

“There’s a lot of fear and uncertainty,” says Dr. Naomi

Marmon Grumet, founder and executive director of the Eden Center, a Jerusalem-based organizat ion dedicated to educating and empowering women around mikveh-related topics.

After discussions with top infectious disease doctors in Israel and representatives from the Ministry of Health, the Eden Center published an in-fographic and produced a we-binar highlighting the ways a woman can keep herself safe at the mikveh, including by preparing at home, mak-ing an appointment to avoid overlapping with others, and refraining from touching sur-faces. Religious organizations in the United States, like the Orthodox Union and the Jew-ish Orthodox Women’s Medical Association (JOWMA), a con-sortium of Orthodox female physicians, have put out simi-lar instructions.

“The guidelines we’ve been given is that you should limit exposure to different things and people in the mikveh,” Dr.

Grumet told me. “Therefore, do your preparation at home as much as you can.” Some mikvaot, like the one a friend of mine attends in Baltimore, have asked users to bring their own towels. Another mikveh in the Bronx leaves all the doors open so no one has to touch a knob.

Mikveh attendants are also being instructed as to how to interact with women who come to use the facilities and how to protect themselves, as many are in an older age bracket. Dr. Aaron Glatt, Chief of Infectious Diseases at Mount Sinai Hospital South Nassau, who is also an ordained rabbi, said he’s consulted with nu-merous mikvehs on their pol-icies in light of coronavirus, and has advised attendants to never touch the women and to space out visits so there is no possibility of mingling in the waiting areas. “[Attendants] should be wearing a mask ide-ally, and never be within six feet of the woman.” b© Forward, reprinted with authorization.


NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CCABI PARTNERS LLC

CCABI Partners LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on February 19, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it is: the LLC, 500 Linden Oaks, Suite 210, Rochester, New York 14625. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany is Cedar Falls Estates LLC. Arti-cles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 30, 2020. The office of the LLC is located in Monroe County. The business street address is 55 Oliver Street, Rochester, New York 14607. SSNY is desig-nated as the agent of the Company upon whom process in any action or proceeding against it may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any such process is 55 Oliver Street, Rochester, New York 14607. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability com-panies may be formed.


1267 E. Ridge Road Holdings, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State on 2/18/20. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secre-tary of State is designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy shall be mailed to 1657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610. Its purpose is any lawful business.


(1) Name: Gold Stag Enterprises LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on February 18, 2020 (3) Its office location is to be in Monroe County, State of New York. (4) The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 169 Straub Road, Roch-ester, NY 14626 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

The Counceller Dorf, LLC. Arts of Org filed with the SSNY on 2/10/2020. Office: Ontario County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 6731 Springdale Court, Victor NY 14564. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.


BD Member Hudson 11 Warren, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State on 2/18/2020. Its of-fice is located in Monroe County. The Sec-retary of State is designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy shall be mailed to c/o Benchmark Development, 34 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Its purpose is any lawful business.


(1) Name: Walking R Farms LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on February 18, 2020 (3) Its office location is to be in Ontario County, State of New York. (4) The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 3014 Jones Road, Geneva, NY 14456 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.


Hudson 11 Warren, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State on 2/18/2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy shall be mailed to c/o Benchmark Development, 34 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Its purpose is any lawful business.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CC WRANGLERS LLC

CC Wranglers LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Secre-tary of State on January 21, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. (2) The principal business location is One Park Avenue, Brockport, New York

14420 (3) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it is c/o The LLC, One Park Avenue, Brockport, New York 14420. (4) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATIONNotice of formation of limited liability

company (LLC). Name: 510 Union Street LV LLC (the Company). Articles of Orga-nization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/21/20. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, 100 Savannah Street, Rochester, NY 14607. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capac-ity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by rea-son of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.


company. Name: Atlas Housing LLC (the Company). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/19/20. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, 1900 Empire Boulevard Suite 225, Webster, New York 14580. Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capac-ity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by rea-son of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CHESTNUT GROVE LAND LLC

Chestnut Grove Land LLC filed Arti-cles of Organization with NYS on February 24, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon-roe County, New York. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it is: the LLC, 259 Alexan-der Street, Rochester, New York 14607. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GWS1016, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on August 5, 2016. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: GWS1016, LLC 115 Sully’s Trail, Suite 5, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CINOTTI’S SALON LLC

CINOTTI’S SALON LLC filed Articles of Organization with New York State Depart-ment of State on 02/07/2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 1782 PENFIELD ROAD PENFIELD, NY 14526. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BLACKGOLD PROPERTIES, LLC

BlackGold Properties, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 2/19/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon-roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 106 Industrial Street, Rochester, NY 14608. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Upstate Mattress, LLC

Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/23/2030. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: (81 Peak Hill Drive Rochester, NY 14625) Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DIANA DEYO RYAN, ESQ. LLC

Diana Deyo Ryan, Esq. LLC filed Arti-cles of Organization with NYS on February 25, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon-roe County, New York. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it is: the LLC, 150 Allens Creek Road, Suite 110, Rochester, New York 14618. (3) Purpose: To Practice the Profession of Law.


The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany is FICO PARTNERS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 20, 2020. The office of the LLC is located in Monroe County. The business street address is 1653 Woodard Road, Webster, New York 14580. SSNY is designated as the agent of the Company upon whom pro-cess in any action or proceeding against it may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any such process is 1653 Woodard Road, Webster, New York 14580. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability com-panies may be formed.


(1) Name: Saylor Wanzenried CPAs, PLLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Orga-nization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on January 13, 2020 (3) Its office location is to be in Monroe County, State of New York. (4) The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 418 Parkside Trail, Macedon, NY 14502 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 2400 MT. READ BLVD. ROCHESTER, LLC

2400 Mt. Read Blvd. Rochester, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 2/28/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 1777 East Henrietta Road, Build-ing A, Suite 100, Rochester, NY 14623. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 89-97 Edinburgh, LLC

89-97 Edinburgh, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on September 8, 2017. ( 1) Its principal of-fice is in Monroe County, New York. 2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent upon whom process against it may be served and its post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him or her is c/o The Company, 30 West Broad Street, Suite 406, Rochester, New York 14614. 3) The Company shall be managed by one or more managers. 4) The character or purpose of its business is to engage in any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be orga-nized under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1549 Empire, LLC

1549 Empire, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on August 27, 2019. ( 1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. 2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent upon whom process against it may be served and its post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him or her is c/o The Company, 501 S. Clinton Avenue, Rochester, New York 14620. 3) The Company shall be managed by one or more managers. 4) The character or purpose of its business is to engage in any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Act.


Sparkle Ocean Farms LLC filed Arti-cles of Organization with the NY Depart

ment of State on 2/21/2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy shall be mailed to 17 Prince St., Rochester, NY 14607. Its purpose is any lawful business.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONSTRATHMORE LLC has filed an Appli-

cation for Authority with the Secretary of State on November 6, 2019. Its office is lo-cated in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed

to The LLC, 60 Browns Race, Suite 200, Rochester, New York 14614. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1800 S. WINTON — LLC

1800 S. Winton — LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on March 3, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe Coun-ty, New York. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it is: the LLC, 2850 Clover Street, Pittsford, New York 14534. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose

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Temple B’rith Kodesh 2131 Elmwood Ave. 244-7060

Temple Beth El, Geneva 755 S. Main St. (315) 789-2945

Temple Emanu-El 2956 St. Paul Blvd. 266-1978 Temple Emanu-El 124 Bank St., Batavia 343-7027

Congregation Etz Chaim 2 Mountain Rise, Fairport 223-5344

Temple Sinai 363 Penfield Rd. 381-6890

Congregation Beth Hamedresh-Beth Israel 1369 East Ave. 244-2060

Temple Beth Am 2131Elmwood Avenue, Entrance A 334-4855

Temple Beth David 2131Elmwood Avenue, 266-3223

Temple Beth El 139 Winton Rd. South 473-1770

Chabad Lubavitch 1037 Winton Rd. South 271-0330

Congregation Beth Hakneses Hachodosh 19 St. Regis Dr. North 406-7561

Congregation Beth Sholom 1161 Monroe Ave. 473-1625

Congregation Light of Israel (Sephardic) 1675 Monroe Ave. 271-5690

Ohel Avraham Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave. 389-2525

RELIGIOUS SERVICES

Candle LightingApril 3, 7:21 — April 10, 7:29

Thursday, April 2 — Thursday, April 9

DEATH NOTICEStanley V. Schumann,

83, of Batavia, passed away Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Mr. Schumann was born March 1, 1937, in Manhattan, a son of the late Jack and Lee (Bernzweig) Schumann.

Stan was a graduate of Al-fred University and C.W. Post University, where he earned his Masters Degree. He was a longtime student advisor for Genesee-Wyoming BOCES in Batavia. Mr. Schumann was the president of Temple Ema-nu-El in Batavia for 37 years and ran the Prostate Support Group locally. He also enjoyed cars and wintering in Florida with his wife, Paula. He also had a passion for boating. He had a Coast Guard Captain’s license and worked part time on a tourist boat in Florida.

Surviving are his wife, Paula

(Rosenblom) Schumann, whom he married July 10, 1960; two sons, March Schumann of Los Angeles, Calif., and Gary (Ar-iane) Schumann of the King-dom of Bahrain; three grand-children, Sierra, Victoria, and Alexander Schumann; a niece Jennifer (Paul) Connelly of New York City.

He is preceded in death by a sister, Ilene Connelly.

There will be no visitation. A public celebration of life will be held at a later date, and will be announced. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Stanley’s mem-ory may be made to a cause of charity of the donor’s choice, including Alfred University.

Please leave a condolence, share a story, or light a candle at www.bataviafuneralhomes.com. Arrangements were en-trusted to the H.E. Turner & Co. Funeral Home, Batavia. b


NOTICE OF FORMATIONNotice of formation of limited liability

company (LLC) Deerwood at First Lake LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (SSNY) on February 10, 2020. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of process is 1021 Pittsford-Victor Road, Pittsford, New York 14534. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF OUTLANDER EXPRESS LLC

Outlander Express LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on February 28, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Gen-esee County, New York. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it is: the LLC, 128 Myrtle Street, Leroy, New York 14482. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONLM50EB LLC has filed Articles of Or-

ganization with the Secretary of State (SOS) on3/4/2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The SOS has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, PO Box 18554, Rochester, NY 14618. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.


company (LLC). Name: WRP Operating Towngate LLC (the Company). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/03/20. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such pro-cess to: c/o the Company, 550 Latona Road, Rochester, New York 14626. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely

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


company (LLC). Name: WF Towngate LLC (the Company). Articles of Organi-zation filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/20. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, 550 Latona Road, Rochester, New York 14626. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.


company (LLC). Name: WF Five Mile LLC (the Company). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/20. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Compa-ny may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, 550 Latona Road, Rochester, New York 14626. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Pur-pose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.


company (LLC). Name: WRP Operating Five Mile LLC (the Company). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/03/20. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is

designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such pro-cess to: c/o the Company, 550 Latona Road, Rochester, New York 14626. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONNINE SUTHERLAND LLC has filed Ar-

ticles of Organization with the Secretary of State on March 4, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, 28 Mount Liberty Drive, Penfield, New York 14526. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION3rd ROC Solar, LLC, filed Articles of

Organization with the New York De-partment of State on March 4, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom pro-cess against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to Glenn Fjermedal, 28 E. Main Street, Ste 1700, Rochester, New York 14614. The purpose of the Company is Solar Sales Consulting.

NOTICE OF FORMATION50EBOZ LLC has filed Articles of Orga-

nization with the Secretary of State (SOS) on 3/6/2020. Its office is located in Mon-roe County. The SOS has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, PO Box 18554, Rochester, NY 14618. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONA50EB LLC has filed Articles of Orga-

nization with the Secretary of State (SOS) on 3/6/2020. Its office is located in Mon-roe County. The SOS has been designated as agent upon whom process against it

may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, PO Box 18554, Rochester, NY 14618. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

Notice of Organization:MAYDEN LAKEHOUSE, LLC was filed

with SSNY on 3/5/20. Office: Ontario County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served. PO address which SSNY shall mail any process against the LLC served upon it: 311 FRANLEE LN, VICTOR, NY, 14564. Pur-pose is to engage in any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONJESSICA LEE PHOTOGRAPHY LLC has

filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on March 6, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The LLC, 60 Ashlyn Rise, Fairport, New York 14450. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY OF CAREERAMERICA, LLC

Name: CareerAmerica, LLC (LLC). Authority filed with NY Secretary of State (NYSS): 2/4/2020. LLC organized in Delaware: 11/6/2019. NY office location: Monroe County. NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 703 11th Street, Boulder, CO 80302. Address of office maintained in jurisdiction of formation: 3500 S. Dupont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901. Copy of Certificate of Formation on file with the Delaware Secretary of State at 401 Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICEArticles of Organization with respect

to IMB ASSOCIATES, LLC, a New York limited liability company, were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on March 10, 2020. The county in New York State where its office is located is Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of IMB ASSOCIATES, LLC upon whom process against it may be served; and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against, IMB ASSOCIATES, LLC served upon him or her is c/o the

Company, 21 Schoen Place, Pittsford, NY 14534. IMB ASSOCIATES, LLC is formed for the purpose of engaging in any and all business activities permitted under the laws of the State of New York.

NOTICE OF FORMATION CASADENT 2 L.L.C.

Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 03/10/2020. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o the Company, 417 French Road, Rochester, New York 14618

LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:

The name of the Limited Liability Company is Abundant Solar Power (TZ1) LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on March 11, 2020. The office of the Company is located in the County of Monroe, State of New York. The New York Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the Company upon whom process in any action or proceeding against it may be served, and the ad-dress to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of process in any action or proceeding against the Company served upon him or her is 700 W Metro Park, Rochester, New York 14623. The purpose of the business is any lawful business.

NOTICE OF FORMATION

ANTHONY’S QUALITY RENOVA-TIONS LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the New York Depart-ment of State on FEBRUARY 14, 2020. Its office is located in MONROE County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to THE LLC, 30 SHAKER MILL, ROCHESTER, NY 14612. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.

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Bob Dylan Gave Us a 17-Minute JFK Murder Ballad for Our Quarantine. Uh, Thanks?

by PJ GRISARIn this tough time, many artists are

reaching their fans with new and unre-leased work — oftentimes we wish they didn’t. That “Imagine” collab is roundly considered a travesty. I, for one, had no need of that pitchy, unused track from “Hamilton.” I must admit, however, that I didn’t expect Bob Dylan, infrequent Twitter user that he is, to get in on the giveaway game by dropping a new base-ment tape on the platform.

Last night Dylan proved he is full of surprises, tweetingan-over-the-transom song that is his longest to date at nearly 17 minutes. (It beats “Highlands” by about a half a minute.) It’s called “Mur-der Most Foul” and it is — because we clearly need it at this moment — a mur-der ballad about the JFK assassination. Thanks, Bob. You really shouldn’t have.

It’s unclear when the song was record-ed — Dylan’s brief statement accompa-nying the release merely said it was from “a while back” — but its sparse orches-tration: piano, violin, subtle percussion, hint at not all that long ago.

The music is not the draw here, though. Dylan gives us a largely spo-ken word account of how Kennedy was “shot down like a dog in broad daylight,” adding that, “It was a matter of timing and the timing was right/You got un-

paid debts, we came to collect/We’re gonna kill you with hatred, without any respect.”

Is it possible to revoke a Nobel Prize for literature? Unlikely given that a genocide apologist recently received one.

Anyway, the narrative continues, rife with clichés and positively teeming with bathetic pop culture references. Think of it as a sleepy “We Didn’t Start the Fire” picking up where that song ends (i.e.

“JFK blown away.”)Nods to the British Invasion (“The

Beatles are coming, they’re gonna hold your hand”) Woodstock and Altamont (where the speaker of the song will “sit by the stage”), Patsy Cline, Freddy Krueger, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Little Richard and — another murder ballad subject — Tom Dooley, follow as we track the motorcade’s procession to Parkland Hospital. We also, naturally,

pause to reflect on Johnson’s swearing in ceremony.

The last five minutes consist of Dylan channeling a xanned out Rick Blaine as he speaks to Wolfman Jack.

“Play me a song,” Dylan tells the DJ. “Play it for me in my long Cadillac/Play me that ‘Only the Good Die Young’”

Further musical requests include the Eagles, Kander and Ebb, Beethoven and “Another One Bites the Dust” as well as — somehow — noted non-musicians Bugsy Siegel and Buster Keaton

If Dylan was once an artist who em-bodied the zeitgeist, those days are clearly behind us. Still, the man’s last album of original material was released in 2012 and, as with all things Dylan, his votaries will be paying Talmudic attention to this new text and finding a deeper meaning than I care to.

It’s quite possible some learned Robert Zimmerman scholar will find a deep resonance to the current moment. It’s only a matter of time until the Genius page for the song is fecund with as much analysis as the SparkNotes of “Moby-Dick” from which Dylan cribbed his Nobel lecture.

More power to those devotees. For me, this is up there with that preloaded U2 album in terms of unwanted content. b

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NOTICE OF FORMATIONJ PAK PROPERTIES LLC (the “LLC”)

filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on MARCH 3, 2020. Its office is located in MONROE County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to THE LLC, 67 CHAD-WICK MANOR, FAIRPORT, NY 14450. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONEPIC POOLS LLC (the “LLC”) filed

Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on FEBRUARY 19, 2020. Its office is located in MONROE County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to THE LLC, 855 PITTSFORD

VICTOR ROAD, PITTSFORD, NY 14534. The purpose of the Company is any law-ful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION

WESTSIDE HEALTHY CBD LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on FEBRUARY 18, 2020. Its office is lo-cated in MONROE County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to THE LLC, 1544 RIDGE ROAD WEST, ROCHESTER, NY 14615. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: Taouk Parnell

LLC (the Company). Articles of Organiza-tion filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/20. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, PO Box 52, Spencerport, New York 14559. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities.


company. Name: Testa Dura LLC (the Company). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/12/20. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, 435 Smith Street, Rochester, New York 14608. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by reason of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely

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

LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:

The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany is Abundant Solar Power (Port-land) LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on March 16, 2020. The office of the Company is located in the County of Monroe, State of New York. The New York Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the Company upon whom process in any action or proceeding against it may be served, and the ad-dress to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of process in any action or proceeding against the Company served upon him or her is 700 W Metro Park, Rochester, New York 14623. The purpose of the business is any lawful business.

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Books …

What to Read While Socially Distancing? Here’s What the Forward Staff Recommends.

As we socially distance to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak, many of us have a bit more time to read these days. But it can be hard to know where to start. The Forward staff has been thinking quite a bit about what constitutes an appropriate syllabus for the age of COVID-19: Here are our suggestions, from much-needed escapism to apocalypse reads and in-the-weeds analysis of our current moment and its pandemic predecessors.

Comfort Reads

Chana Pollack, Archivist“Other People’s Houses: A

Novel” (1964) by Lore SegalNonagenarian New York City

resident Segal arrived safely in the United Kingdom as part of a kindertransport with several hundred other children, and immediately embarked on a let-ter writing campaign that saved her parents, who were still in Hitler’s Vienna. Hers is a child survivor’s tale chronicling how her formerly upper-middle-class parents — her father a banker and her mother a highly-edu-cated musician — arrived in the United Kingdom as refugees from an enemy country and ac-cepted work as domestics in the British countryside. Not always permitted to live with them at their jobs, Segal was fostered out and sent to live mostly in other people’s homes. The book is an autobiographical novel, but I’m reading it as a memoir of a refugee childhood shel-tering in the place of an anx-ious freedom from near certain death under Hitler’s reign, as well as a fascinating look into other people’s lives.

PJ Grisar, Culture Fellow“The Complete Sherlock

Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle

I always return to 221B Baker Street’s resident sleuth. I sus-pect that Doyle — a physician when not writing — mocked

up his Holmesian adventures with a kind of medicinal pur-pose in mind. Something about their rhythms, stuffy dialogue and neat conclusions is always soothing. Sherlock probably couldn’t solve a pandemic of the sort we’re now facing (his brother, career civil servant Mycroft Holmes, might be able to), but he always succeeds in calming me down.

Talya Zax, Deputy Culture Editor

“Caldecott & Co: Notes on Books & Pictures”(1988) by Maurice Sendak

I’m dealing with moments of stress by dipping in and out of a collection of Maurice Sendak’s essays and reviews that I picked up at a used book store over the holidays. Sendak, known for his beloved children’s books, was well aware of how dark the world can be, but also had a re-markable talent for accessing its joy. His writing for adults may not be his most popular work, but right now, it’s helping me learn how to balance realism and hope. Plus, it’s just plain fun to watch his mind at work and play. “Is there a real Mother Goose?” he wonders, entirely se-riously, in an essay on that emi-nently respectable figure. What a wonderful question to ask, even — or especially — now.

Mira Fox, Editorial Fellow

“Station Eleven” (2014) by Emily St. John Mandel

This is somewhere between a worst-case scenario and a comfort read, to me. “Station Eleven” does take place in a decimated, post-apocalyptic landscape in the Midwest, but it’s actually about the impor-tance of art, community and humanity — even in the worst of times. The novel follows a troupe of actors and musicians who travel between the small surviving communities per-forming Shakespeare. In a way, this dystopia is almost utopian.

Their commitment to art is in-spiring, and it’s a quick read.

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, Life Editor

“Americanah” (2013) by Chi-mamanda Ngozi Adichie

“City of Thieves” (2008) by David Benioff

“The Wife”(2007) by Meg Wolitzer

“Homegoing” (2016) by Yaa Gyasi

Batya Ungar-Sargon, Opinion Editor

“The Power” (2016) by Naomi Alderman

I just read Naomi Alderman’s tour de force over Shabbos. It’s like the anti-coronavirus story: a book about female power spreading across the world. It made me livid that I can’t elec-trocute every man who dis-pleases me.

“The Orphan Master’s Son” (2012) by Adam Johnson

This book is the perfect com-bination of totally gripping and deeply moving. It’s a hilarious but also devastating look at North Korea, a romance that’s threaded with a brilliant medi-tation on freedom.

“Olive Kitteridge” (2008) by Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout is, I believe, the most undersung writer working today. Reading Strout is like doing one of those work-outs where you realize you had muscles you didn’t know about because they hurt, but for cor-ners of your heart. It was hard to pick just one Strout book, but this is a good one to start with.

Gabby Brooks, Marketing Intern

“The Idiot”(2017) by Elif Ba-tuman

It’s a bildungsroman about a freshman at Harvard written in the style of classic Russian literature. It’s endlessly frus-trating, relatable and beautiful. It’s been a month since I’ve read it, and I still want to go to Harvard — nevermind that the campus is closed — and study

linguistics. I’m not sure if it’s a passing phase because the book had that much impact or if it made me realize something about myself. Either way — read this book!

For Context

PJ Grisar“Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu

of 1918 and How It Changed the World” (2017) by Laura Spinney

The scale and impact of the novel coronavirus has been fre-quently compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. Spin-ney’s book explores how that flu spread and, compellingly, how citizens from every strata of society, on all continents but Antarctica, responded. Russian Jews gathered in graveyards to hold weddings to ward off the virus; sitting U.S. president Woodrow Wilson was infected but made no public statements about the pandemic; coun-tries closed their borders and blamed other nations for the flu’s forward motion on their home fronts. Spinney argues that this period of panic and mass death shaped the 20th century’s geopolitics, informing breakthroughs in science and art and changing the way we think of containment and glob-al response.

Ari Feldman, Staff Writer“The Fifth Risk” (2018) by

Michael LewisThe titular risk of Lewis’ slim

and very readable book is the brain drain from government bureaucracies that has inten-sified under President Trump. Case in point: Many of us have read about how the Trump ad-ministration closed its pandem-ic office in 2018, leaving the federal government without a central staff of experts prepared to coordinate a response to the situation we’re in right now. Lewis takes the reader deep into the line items of the federal budget to show us how import-ant bureaucrats are to a func-

tioning society, let alone a soci-ety under imminent threat from a deadly virus. The book will educate and infuriate you, and maybe even make you want to go to work in Washington.

For a Worst-Case Scenario

PJ Grisar“The Stand” (1978) by Ste-

phen KingThis cinder block of a book,

inspired by a terrible Blue Oys-ter Cult song, imagines the acci-dental release of a viral agent of death and the subsequent disso-lution of American society. The survivors of the military-made superflu flock respectively to a supercentenarian matron and an evil supernatural dictator and ready themselves to face off in the titular “stand,” in which nuclear disaster is a pos-sibility. So, the good news is that we’re not there yet. In its direness, King’s ever-spooky prose just might make you feel better about the current state of things.

Mira Fox“Severance” (2018) by Ling

MaThis slim novel was critically

acclaimed upon its release; lit-tle did we know how relevant it would be so shortly after its debut. “Severance” features a young woman, Candace Chen, following her escape from a post-apocalyptic New York after a strange contagion has deci-mated the U.S. Ma takes a dry, sharp tone as she juxtaposes late-stage capitalism and office bureaucracy with the break-down of society, deftly weaving scenes from Candace’s former life into the narrative of her life on the road. And it’s not all apocalypse! Ma’s wry obser-vations are just as on-the-nose when talking about the life of an immigrant — or even that of a publicist. b©Forward. Reprinted with authorization.



company. Name: PR Family Agency LLC (the Company). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/20. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o the Company, 10 Old Hojack Lane, Hilton, New York 14468. The Company is to be managed by one or more managers. No members of the Company shall be liable in their capacity as members of the Company for debts, obligations or liabilities of the Company. No member of the Company, solely by rea-son of being a member, is an agent of the Company for the purpose of its business, and no member shall have the authority to act for the Company solely by virtue of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLCGeraniums & Glue, LLC has filed

Articles of Organization with the NY Secy of State on 3.18.20. Its principal place of business is 50 Victor Mendon Rd, Mendon, NY in Monroe County. The Secy of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to the company at 50 Victor Mendon Rd, Mendon, NY. The purpose is to engage in any lawful activity.


(Under Section 206 of the Limited Lia-bility Company Law) 1. The name of the limited liability company is Conifer Cooks Lane Associates II, LLC (the “Compa-ny”). 2. The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on March 18, 2020. 3. The office of the Company within the State of New York is in the County of Monroe. 4. The Secretary of State of the State of New York is hereby designated as agent of the Company for the purpose of service of process. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company serviced upon him or her is 1000 University Avenue, Suite 500, Rochester, New York 14607. 5. The character and purpose of the business of the Company shall be real estate development and any other purpose permitted by New York law.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1 NORWOOD STREET LLC

1 Norwood Street LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 3/11/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 28 Atlantic Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 211 MERRIMAN STREET LLC

211 Merriman Street LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 3/11/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon-roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State

has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 28 Atlantic Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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

Name: IGH Properties, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State with the State of New York (“SSNY”) on: March 17, 2020. Office Location: 1638 St. Paul Street, Rochester, NY 14621 Coun-ty of: Monroe Principal Business Location: 1638 St. Paul Street, Rochester, NY 14621. Purpose: any and all lawful act or activity. The Secretary of State of the State of New York has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: 228 LOGAN AVENUE, FORT BENNING, GA 31905


The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany (LLC) is 1476 Ridge Road LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on June 24, 2019. Office location is Monroe County, New York. The SSNY has been des-ignated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 1900 Empire Blvd., Ste 108, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity


The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany (LLC) is Florac LLC. Articles of Orga-nization were filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on June 24, 2019. Office location is Monroe County, New York. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 1900 Empire Blvd., Ste 108, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ROCHESTER 3 INVESTORS, LLC

Rochester 3 Investors, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 3/12/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon-roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 91 Knollwood Drive, Rochester, NY 14618. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BRISTOL 23 AC, LLC

Bristol 23 AC, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 3/17/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 11876 via Salerno Way, Miromar Lakes, FL 33913. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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

Name: Fort Drumm LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State with the State of New York (“SSNY”) on: December 23, 2019. Office Location:

County of: Monroe. Principal Business Lo-cation: 198 Park Road, Pittsford, New York 14534. Purpose: any and all lawful act or activity. The Secretary of State of the State of New York has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: 198 Park Road, Pittsford, New York 14534

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 900 SHOEMAKER ROAD LLC

900 Shoemaker Road LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 3/11/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon-roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 1085 Gravel Road, Webster, NY 14580. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1085 GRAVEL ROAD LLC

1085 Gravel Road LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 3/11/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 1085 Gravel Road, Webster, NY 14580. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1314 RANCHESTER ROAD LLC

1314 Ranchester Road LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 3/11/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon-roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 1085 Gravel Road, Webster, NY 14580. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 6027 COUNTY ROAD 36 LLC

6027 County Road 36 LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 3/11/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon-roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 1085 Gravel Road, Webster, NY 14580. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.


(Under Section 206 of the Limited Lia-bility Company Law) 1. The name of the limited liability company is POINT AND RAVINE, LLC (the “Company”). 2. The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on March 18, 2020. 3. The office of the Company within the State of New York is in the County of Monroe. 4. The Secretary of State of the State of New York is hereby designated as agent of the Company for the purpose of service of process. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company serviced upon him or her is 1000 University Avenue, Suite 500, Rochester, New York 14607. 5. The character and purpose of the business

of the Company shall be real estate devel-opment and any other purpose permitted by New York law.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TREEBROOK VENTURES II, LLC

Treebrook Ventures II, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 3/23/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon-roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 63 Angels Path, Webster, NY 14580. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF M. CERONE DEVELOPMENT, LLC

M. Cerone Development, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 3/24/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon-roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, 18 Crowne Pointe Drive, Penfield, NY 14526. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION INTERSTATE FREIGHT MANAGEMENT LLC

Interstate Freight Management LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State on March 18, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 1083 Mt. Read Blvd., Ste. A, Rochester, NY 14606. The purpose of the Company is any lawful business.


(1) Name: Strategos Consulting LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on March 16, 2020 (3) Its office location is to be in Monroe County, State of New York. (4) The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 124 S. Main St., Pitts-ford, NY 14534 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Organization:LAUGHING GULL CHOCOLATES, LLC

was filed with SSNY on 3/10/20. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served. PO address which SSNY shall mail any process against the LLC served upon it: 1868 E. MAIN ST, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14609. Purpose is to engage in any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONCorporate Drive 6B LLC has filed

Articles of Organization with the Secre-tary of State (SOS) on 3/24/20. Its office is located in Ontario County. The SOS has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to The

LLC, 1127 Corporate Dr. East, Farmington, NY 14425 The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION

Motivated 4 Change filed Articles of Organization with the New York De-partment of State on March 5th,2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom pro-cess against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 77Virginia Ave Rochester, NY 14611. The purpose of the Company is Counseling Services and Mental Health.

Notice of Organization:

DD & L HOLDINGS, LLC was filed with SSNY on 3/30/20. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served. PO address which SSNY shall mail any process against the LLC served upon it: 415 PARK AVE, ROCHESTER, NY 14607. Purpose is to engage in any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SHADY BROOK HOLDINGS LLC

SHADY BROOK HOLDINGS LLC filed Articles of Organization with New York State Department of State on March 10, 2020. Its office is located in Wayne County. The Secretary of State has been designat-ed as agent of the Company upon whom it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 10110 MINER ROAD, NORTH ROSE, NEW YORK, 14516. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SLPF HOLDINGS LLC

SLPF HOLDINGS LLC filed Articles of Organization with New York State De-partment of State on January 30, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 115 EAST AVENUE, HILTON, NEW YORK, 14468. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF COUNTY ROAD GROOM & BOARD, LLC

COUNTY ROAD GROOM & BOARD, LLC filed Articles of Organization with New York State Department of State on March 10, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 5987 SPRINGWATER ROAD, DANSVILLE, NY 14437. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.

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Jewish World …

Russian-Israeli Billionaire Donates $3 Million to Israel to Fight Coronavirus

(JNS) — Russian-Israeli bil-lionaire Yuri Milner donated $3 million through his Milner Foundation to three Israeli in-stitutions working to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the foundation announced on Tuesday.

The money will go to Isra-el’s emergency service Magen David Adom, which is launch-ing an innovative project to reduce the number of people visiting clinics; Tel Aviv Uni-versity’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, to support research efforts dedi-

cated to developing treatment for COVID-19; and the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Cen-ter, Ichilov Hospital to fund its intensive-care unit that is treating coronavirus patients.

The donation was carried out in cooperation with Isra-el’s Consul-General to the Pa-cific North West in San Fran-cisco, Shlomi Kofman.

Milner, an Israeli citizen living in Silicon Valley who founded the Milner Founda-tion with his wife, Julia, said about the donation, “This is an investment in the present and the future. In the short

term, it’s a way to increase the intensive-care unit capacity in Israel and relieve pressure on doctors, and in the lon-ger term, it will support the search for a cure and help de-velop a new system of virtual medical treatment.”

He continued, “In the face of global threats like this, sci-ence, technology and innova-tion are our best hopes. Israel is a leader in those fields, and I hope this initiative can both make an impact on COVID-19 and also become a model that can be replicated by other countries.” b Yuri and Julia Milner. Credit: Debray Riveros via Wikimedia Commons.


For Women Trapped in Abusive Relationships, Quarantine Can Be More Dangerous Than COVID-19

by MARISA FOX-BEVILACQUAFor most of us, the shelter-in-place

order that followed the outbreak of the new coronavirus is a challenge. But for women trapped in abusive relationships, being confined to the home can be more life-threatening than COVID-19, the dis-ease the virus causes.

Domestic violence afflicts one in three women nationally, according to the Cen-ters for Disease Control. Three women a day are killed in the United States by former and current husbands and cur-rent boyfriends, reports the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, an underestimate given that half of all domestic abuse cases go unreported, according to the Bureau of Justice Sta-tistics.

Like natural disasters, pandemics are prime time for abusive relationships. Stress, mental illness, alcohol, drug use, and things like disease, earthquakes and hurricanes don’t cause abuse, but they heighten a dominant partner’s ability to exploit a situation and amplify a victim’s sense of fear, hopelessness and vulnera-bility. And thanks to coronavirus, more women and girls are now placed under quarantine with their abusers.

“Domestic violence is about power and control, and an abuser will use any tool in their toolbox to exert it,” says the National Domestic Violence Hotline’s Chief Marketing and Development Of-ficer Crystal Justice. “Right now, that’s COVID, so that means cutting victims off from everything from hand sani-tizer to critical healthcare, and further isolating them, letting them know: ‘No, you can’t leave the house, go for a walk, reach out to a family member, or even go to work. We’re getting calls from emergency responders who are telling us their abusers are restricting them from going to work, claiming they are purposely trying to infect them. So if co-ercion and manipulation are your main tactics, a pandemic becomes another element you can exploit.”

The National Domestic Violence Ho-tline averages between 1,800 to 2,000 calls a day, a number that hasn’t gone up yet, just like during holidays, when peo-ple are confined to the home with abus-ers, the number doesn’t go up because victims’ access to hotlines is limited. “But the Monday following the holiday, we notice a surge,” Justice says. “We expect COVID to reflect that pattern.” Meanwhile, more than 700 cases cited COVID-19 as a factor in their experience.

Domestic violence is really about emo-tional manipulation, says Micol Rieger, a social worker and domestic violence survivor advocate at the Metropolitan Council, also known as the Met Council. “Survivors live in constant fear and are cut off from others, physically, financial-ly and in any other way,” she says. “So when you physically can’t leave your home and don’t have access to money to flee, you feel trapped.” New York’s effective shelter-in-place order has so far prevented one of her clients from moving forward with her plan to leave her abuser.

Met Council does offer continuing safety planning and other options, such as entering into a shelter, calling 911 if things escalate, and remote counseling sessions, which the Met Council pro-vides free-of-charge to its clients and has put in place in lieu of in-person therapy during the stay-in-shelter order in New York.

To accommodate the growing anxiety of her clients, Rieger also is launching a Zoom-powered support group for six of her survivors, all at various stages of their healing process. One of her success stories is “Malki,” a pastry chef and or-thodox mother of six, who was wed at 18 and survived 20 years in an abusive marriage.

“Not being able to go out and leave is devastating,” Malki says of women trapped in abusive marriages during the pandemic. “My ex used to sleep with a hammer by the side of our bed and threaten to kill me in my sleep if I ever mentioned what he did to me. I was in survival mode the whole time. I can’t imagine how much more stressed I’d be now with him and all the kids home all the time.”

“Met Council saved my life,” she went on. “I want every woman to know, the hotline is there for you, even if you can’t call because your abuser is there and monitoring everything you’re saying and doing. You can email [email protected] and they’ll respond.”

Though many hotlines now have their staffs operating remotely to comply with stay-in-shelter orders, they are all up and running, 24-7.

“We have a database of 5,000 resourc-es nationwide, including shelters and other resources, catalogued by many things, like are they LGBTQ-friendly, etc.,” says the National Domestic Vio-lence Hotline’s Justice. “We tailor how we connect a survivor to their commu-

nity. If religious belief is important, we help them find someplace where they would feel most comfortable.”

All information is kept confidential. And though many shelters are at maxi-mum capacity, some agencies can house families at hotels, she says.

“If someone feels unsafe calling, they may find our digital chat and text safer options,” says Justice. “Anyone can ac-cess the chatline through thehotline.org or they can text ‘loveis’ to 22522, and a live agent will be on the other end.” And you don’t have to speak English; the National Domestic Violence Hotline offers help in 200 languages.

Though the stay-in-shelter order has caused the Family Justice Center offic-es to temporarily close its offices, they are providing services and support by phone. New York survivors can call 311 to be connected to its staff. And though NYC courts are closed, they remain open for emergency orders of protection, and all current orders of protection will re-main in effect until the courts reopen, says Rieger.

Each state has its own domestic vio-lence laws and judicial processes, but securing a legal order of protection is considered an emergency service, and most courts will allow survivors to file no matter where they live.

Still, that doesn’t mean we should turn a blind eye to our neighbors, particular-ly if we suspect abuse. “In this time of self-quarantine, it is absolutely import-ant to reach out,” says Naomi Senser, board chair of community outreach and education for Shalva, a Chicago based organization that supports Jewish women experiencing and healing from domestic abuse. “When you call, don’t just ask, ‘How are you?’ Explicitly ask: ‘Are you safe?’” says Senser. “She may not be able to answer if her abuser is around, but just asking that question is validating her experience and may empower her to open up to you when she can.”

Even though many domestic violence shelters seem short on space, Jewish agencies are rising to the challenge and finding options for their survivor clients. “We still have space left,” says Jelaine Altino, deputy clinical director of resi-dential services at Sanctuary for Fam-ilies, a nonprofit organization that pro-vides domestic violence survivors with crisis counseling and emergency shelter, as well as a whole host of services, and has a specialized Jewish program. The

Met Council, too, can help connect sur-vivors with shelters where they can keep kosher and Kosher for Passover.

“I’m just glad that — even in the midst of this crisis — we’re not turning anyone away,” she says. “If there’s someone who needs to get out of a dangerous situa-tion, our doors are open and we will assist them in any possible way we can, and get them healed and on their way to wellness and safety.”

Because Sanctuary’s shelters allow a mother to live independently with her children in individual units, Altino says they’ve been able to limit residents’ exposure to each other and contain any potential spread of the coronavirus. Though some units may share kitchens, they’ve created schedules to stagger their use and regularly disinfect all shared and public spaces. To further restrict any potential spread, Altino is keeping a unit vacant in case a family does contract the disease and need to be quarantined.

“This should allay any fear of some-one being turned away if she presents with symptoms,” she says.

“I’ve received calls from women who are really afraid that their children will be taken away from them and put in the custody of their abusers if they show up to a shelter with COVID-like symptoms,” says Rieger. “I assure them that will never happen.”

Ohel, the only shelter servicing Or-thodox women in the New York area, is also able to offer room to whoever in the community is in need, according to spokesperson Amy Bierig. They are also rolling out a national helpline in Spanish and Yiddish for individuals to “Zoom-connect” for 15 minutes a day with one of their trauma specialists.

“We need to stick together,” says Malki, who launched a baking drive this Passover for fellow survivors still hoping for their own exodus. “I want other women to know there’s help out there. You’re not alone — even during a quarantine.” b

Domestic Violence ResourcesNational Domestic Violence Hotline:

800-799-7233 or text “LOVEIS” to 22522

Met Council: 212.453.9618SHALVA’s hotline: 773-583-HOPE

(4673)Sanctuary for Families: 212.349.6009Ohel: 1-800-603-OHEL

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Reflection …

tors, which can reach across the world. This whole experience, if nothing else, really illustrates to us how, in fact, we are all connected and how this world is much smaller than we think it is.”

Lisa Kranseler, executive di-rector of the Washington State Jewish Historical Society, is glad in this moment to have had the forethought to have put the society’s holdings online. The society’s companion mu-seum, the Washington Jewish

Museum, is one of the few not shutting down in the midst of the current crisis — because it’s online only.

Before Kranseler established the museum on the occasion of the society’s 50th anniversary in 2018, the society’s wealth of oral histories and photos were only accessible at the Univer-sity of Washington’s Special Collections libraries. Kransel-er wanted to give the public greater curated access to the society’s archives; now the

museum — which shares the society’s three-employee staff — boasts online exhibits on the history of Washington-area Jewish businesses, synagogues and notable people.

Since Washington became the first state in the U.S. to reg-ister a major coronavirus clus-ter, Krenseler has continued in her mission to recording history as it happens. She’s been con-tacting members of the society and Washingtonians at large to create a collection of oral, text

and video histories for a forth-coming exhibit called “Hagga-dah: Telling Your Stories in the Time of COVID-19,” which will chronicle how individuals are coping with the current crisis. The word “haggadah,” Krensel-er noted, roughly translates to “telling,” and the online exhibit will focus on the current period both broadly and as it relates to people’s Passover plans. The oral histories used in the proj-ect will be recorded remotely, through voice memos, Zoom

or Skype meetings or Facetime.Krenseler is also collecting

stories of how area synagogues and Jewish organizations are responding through measures like online Shabbat services.

“This museum is serving as a central spot” to collect first-hand accounts of this moment, Krenseler said. “As a commu-nity, we’re telling our story for the future. Suddenly people are realizing ‘Oh, history is important.’” b© Forward, reprinted with authorization.

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“We Put Out a Call;” Twin Cities Man Collects Seder Plates for First-Time Passover Hosts

by IRENE CONNELLYOn Thursday afternoon, Thryn Hare

drove to a Minneapolis house where a cluster of Seder plates was lying in the yard. They were a mismatched bunch — some engraved with flowery Hebrew letters, some sleek and modern, one patterned to look like matzah — but all would enliven a Passover table, and all were free for the taking.

For Hare, who is hosting their own Passover meal, or Seder, for the first time this year, it was important to go into the holiday with all the right equip-ment. “My girlfriend is staying with me, and she’s working on her conversion [to Judaism] right now,” said Hare, who also converted to Judaism and was first drawn to the religion while attending a Seder hosted by their stepmother. “I really want to make sure I’m doing right by her.”

Standing at a responsible distance, the house’s owner, Adam Schwartz, helped Hare make a selection, a plate bordered by small illustrations of each of the ten plagues.

A sof tware researcher by day, Schwartz is also the founder of Heritage Judaica, a “free Judaica clearinghouse” that collects unwanted Jewish ritual items and places them in new homes throughout the Twin Cities area. It’s a system Schwartz devised in 2018, after an elderly relative couldn’t find anyone among her descendents to accept her beloved Kiddush cups. Schwartz sympa-thized with her wish to see an heirloom fall into safe hands, not a thrift store.

So he put out word on Facebook that he’d be accepting both donations and requests for Jewish objects.

A year and a half later, Schwartz cultivated a thriving online commu-nity and disbursed about 3,000 piec-es of Judaica. Those in search of the perfect secondhand menorah can find him at synagogue events and pop-ups throughout the Twin Cities, or make an appointment to browse the collection in his living room. Many of his “custom-ers” are, in his own words “people who aren’t always in the center of the Jewish world,” from recent converts to young

couples or interfaith families who feel excluded by Jewish institutions.

One of them is Hare, who first met Schwartz while finishing their conver-sion and has built up a collection of treasured ritual items through Heritage Judaica, including a set of tefillin that the original owner’s grandfather had brought to America from Hungary.

This year, as coronavirus scuppers travel plans and confines families to their homes, Schwartz anticipated a rise in single-family Seders, like the one Hare is hosting — and a corresponding rise in demand for Passover equipment.

On Facebook, he invited Twin Cities Jews to take advantage of his stock of Seder plates, matzah covers and hag-gadahs (the prayer book read during the ritual meal) and solicited extra donations.

The response was enthusiastic. And as Schwartz predicted, it came large-ly from those who found themselves hosting for the first time under severely circumscribed conditions. One said that she was spending Passover at home for the first time and had “nothing” to celebrate with. Before she heard about Heritage Judaica, she’d planned on fash-ioning a makeshift seder plate from her best dishware.

Others posted with offers of help. One man said that after packing up for a big move, he’d left two seder plates for Schwartz at a local synagogue. Another woman offered to donate Passover food to anyone in need — she had purchased too much.

Of course, Schwartz said, it’s perfectly possible to observe Passover — or any Jewish ritual — without any special gear at all. “If you choose to light Shab-bos candles, doing them with fancy candleholders doesn’t make you more Jewish,” he said. “You can do kiddush with a styrofoam cup and you’re still Jewish.”

For him, the project isn’t about edu-cating Jews in proper ritual observance but “making it easier for people to experience Judaism in ways that they want to.” b

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Thryn Hare chose a Seder plate bordered with illustrations of the ten plagues. (Courtesy of Thryn Hare)

This Passover Will Be Different from All Others – and There’s Freedom in That

by SHOSHANNA KEATS-JASKOLLPassover is the birthday of

the Jewish people. We went down to Egypt as a family, but we left Egypt as a people. For thousands of years, we have celebrated that birthday, but this year’s Passover will be dif-ferent from all other Passovers.

During the original Passover, Jewish families were told to hunker down in their homes in order to survive the plague raging outside. Each family was told to prepare only what was needed for the people in their homes and share with neigh-bors to ensure that there was no extra, no waste. God promised that those who stayed home and put the blood of the lamb on their doorposts would be spared. And so they were.

Jewish families are once again being told to hunker down to avoid a plague. Most likely, we will spend this Pass-over as we did the very first one.

Back then, we were able to double up with smaller fami-lies. Now, we may not, as every physical interaction is potential-

ly lethal. This forces us to be creative, to think and consider. It reminds us to worry about those who have less than we do and who may need our help. For some, it seems like we are being sent a message.

Here are some of the messag-es I’m hearing:

What It Means to Be the Jewish People

The Israeli government sees all Israelis as its responsibility. It has been rescuing strand-ed Israelis from all over the globe. Four airplanes took their longest flights ever to bring back 1,000 backpackers from Peru. Our foreign ministries are working overtime to get Israelis home before airspace is closed. People around the world are in awe of the efforts Israel goes to for its citizens. “No one left behind” is not an empty slogan here.

The Smallness of Difference

On my street live Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Dati Leumi, Haredi, and Yeshivish Jews. All go to

different synagogues, most of which are closed. Our street has become a makeshift min-yan with men on balconies or on the street, 10 feet apart, praying together. Somehow, the differences in tradition melt away.

The Importance of Turning In and Tuning In

We have been forced to turn inward, to our nuclear fam-ilies and those we live with. Now we are more than par-ents and spouses, roommates and siblings. We are full-time companions. We must help one another more, relate to one an-other more, empathize with one another more. We need to really listen and make this scary time a bit easier.

At the same time, there are those who are not with us. They may be alone, scared, isolated and down. We need to tune in to the needs of others, check on people, those for whom the sit-uation is harder. We must bring them food and tend to other needs they may have, even the need to know that someone

cares. We need to count our blessings and be the blessing for others. ZOOM, WhatsApp, Face-Time and other free apps can connect us with those we cannot physical-ly touch, but can touch w ith ou r hearts.

We’re all in this together

What we do affects everyone else. If we go out, we put others at risk. If we defy the regula-tions and gather in groups, we raise the rates of infection and put the most vulnerable among us at greater risk of death. We are not just responsible for our-selves; we must think of others with every move we make.

Back to BasicsCoronavirus has stopped the

trajectory of the world. Nearly every industry in every country is or will be affected. For the Jews, it has cancelled schools, synagogues, and derailed Pass-over plans.

Those who normally go away for Passover, can’t. Those who make lavish meals with many people will have to pare down. New clothing for the chag won’t be easily gotten and we will all have to make do with what we have.

There is stress in this, but there is also freedom: freedom to focus on what matters and not what people think. Free-dom to focus on the people closest to us and the things that matter most. Freedom to focus on those messages trying to get through. May we all get through this together. b© Forward, reprinted with authorization.

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