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2 The Jewish Standard, December 2019

MICHAEL HAYMAN PUBLISHER AND EDITOR

JULIUS HAYMAN

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER 1937-2000

ANITA SURMAN Editor

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The Significance of Chanukah

It is not really surprising that Chanukah, traditionally a minor festival during which Jews are even permitted to carry our their normal daily work, should during recent years have acquired the status it enjoys in the Jewish community. As the children of the original immigrants from the Jewish enclaves in Eastern Europe began to attend schools in North America they were brought into contact with Christmas music, Christmas gifts and, gen-erally, the not unappealing Christmas spirit which inspired their Christian neighbours. And so there developed throughout the Diaspora a powerful “bring Christmas into Chanukah” movement.

There is nothing wrong in the exchange of gifts among Jews during the Chanukah period. There is certainly a great deal of value in the emphasis upon the kin-dling of the Menorah candles as a perpetual symbol of the light of freedom. But it would be a pity, indeed, if the emphasis upon the exchange of gifts and the exulta-tions of the Menorah overshadowed the essential lessons of Chanukah and its tradi-tional meaning in Jewish history.

The essential lesson of Chanukah is that the privilege of living a full and free

Jewish life must be fought for unceasingly. Victory in the battle for religious liberty must be won in every generation. Sometimes, as the rise in anti-Semitism today illustrates, the enemy is the non-Jew. More often than not, however, the enemies are the Jews themselves who, ignorant of the great truths of Judaism and their value in the enrichment of their own lives, are willing to make compromises in the name of conformi-ty, just as the Hellenizers justified their acceptance of the customs of their neigh-bours as an unwillingness to perpetuate the differences which existed between them.

And so as we celebrate Chanukah - with a generous measure of concession to the more attractive aspects of Christmas - we would do well to remember that our own time is not different, basically, from that of the Maccabees. Between the corroding materialism which presses inexorably upon us and the non-Jewish causes which appeal of what there is in us of altruism, Judaism often seems to be lost. Yet there is today a body of modern Maccabees who insist that Jewish life still has something valuable to offer and who are sparing no effort to con-vince as many Jews as possible see, and appreciate, this value.

Cover Story Canada Post wish-

es Canadians “Hanukkah Sameach” with the release of its new stamp. Designed by Lionel Gadoury of Context Creative, the stamp explores the relationship between light and dark. Combining a stylized menorah with layered pat-terns and nuanced hues that range from bright yel-low to deep purple, the intent is to evoke a sense of reflection and contem-plation.

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NEWS OF THE RECENT PAST IS EXAMINED

By NOAH FREEDMAN

Baroness Ruth Lynn Deech, lawyer, acad-emic, biochemist, politi-cian, prominent supporter of Brexit, and patron of the activist group UK Lawyers for Israel, has expressed her “increasing unease” about the manner in which community leaders are dealing with Holocaust education. She is espe-cially critical of the “day trips to Auschwitz”, argu-ing that children do not emerge from these trips with a true understand-ing of the contribution Jews are making to the world.

Baroness Deech is also a vociferous oppo-nent of the proposed British Holocaust memori-al in Westminster. “Building a memorial to the Holocaust will not do the trick,” she told those observing the 81st anniver-sary of Kristallnacht. Building the memorial would only allow oppor-tunist politicians to “put the Holocaust in a box by signing a declaration once a year, having their pho-tographs taken and believ-ing that they have done

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their “anti-Arab racism and dehumanization of Palestinian people.”

On September 10, two pro-Israel McGill Law School students, Michael Aarenau and Josh Shapiro, commendably wrote a cogent rebuttal to the Daily’s “definition” of Zionism, a definition that we regard as being anti-

Mike Fegelman is Executive Director of Honest/Reporting Canada whose purpose is to Ensure Fair and Accurate Canadian Media Coverage of Israel. The following is a letter sent out to supporters and friends. For more informa-tion on Honest/Reporting Canada readers can visit their website at honestreporting.ca

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CAMPUS NEWSPAPER CONTINUES ITS ANTI-ZIONIST STANCE

By MIKE FEGELMAN

FORMER US AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED Nations Nikki Haley was presented recently with the World Jewish Congress’ Theodor Herzl Award. The award is given to individuals who work to promote Herzl’s ideals for a safer, more tolerant world for the Jewish people. Previous winners include Angela Merkel, former US Secretary of State General Colin L. Powell, former Israeli President Shimon Peres, Elie and Marion Wiesel, and, posthumously, Ronald Reagan and Axel Springer. “The UN’s bias against Israel has long undermined peace, by encouraging an illusion that Israel will go away. Israel is not going away. When the world recognizes that, then peace becomes possible,” Haley said. Shown here are former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder, and former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley. (photo credit: Noa Grayevsky)

The McGill Daily, a campus paper accused of antisemitism and known for singling Israel out for exclu-sive condemnation, has reaffirmed its “anti-Zionist stance” that sees pro-Israel commentaries banned from the publication. In its November 4 edition, the paper’s editorial board penned a “response” that characterized the State of Israel as a “racist” and “colonial movement” and

that sought to justify its ban of pro-Zionist voices saying pro-Israel supporters don’t deserve a “…platform to ideas which dehumanize a group of people…” due to

semitic for claiming that Zionism is racism. As the (Please turn to page 9)


Stephen S. Wise, launched a public campaign for a U.S. boycott of the games. A non-establishment group, Samuel Untermyer’s Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, also actively pro-moted the boycott.

American Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage strongly support-ed U.S. participation in the Berlin games. To prove that

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The American Jewish (Please turn to page 11)

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Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust, published by the Jewish Publication Society / University of Nebraska Press. - The Editor

community was embroiled in a similar public dispute in the 1930s, over plans to hold the 1936 Olympic games in Nazi Germany.

Berlin had been awarded the 1936 games

several years before the Nazis came to power. When Adolf Hitler became chan-cellor in 1933 and began persecuting German Jews, the American Jewish Congress, led by Rabbi


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Mr. and Mrs. H. King, Dunn Avenue, enter-tained at a dinner party on the occasion of their wed-ding anniversary.

Mrs. Arthur Flanders, Glen Edith Drive, enter-tained at the tea hour last Friday in honor of Mrs. M. Markus of Montreal. Mrs. Nathan Phillips presided at the tea table, assisted by Mrs. O. B. Rogers. All who attended enjoyed the event.

Miss Lucille Gold, Homewood Drive, enter-tained at a dinner Saturday evening November 11th. Twenty guests were received.

The marriage is announced of Miss Beulah Brody, of Cedarhurst, L.I., to Mr. Arthur Brodey of New York, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. Brodey, of Toronto, which took place on Saturday evening, November 18th (Please turn to page 13)

EARLY TORONTO JEWRY LED A VIBRANT SOCIAL LIFE

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The Jewish Standard has been publishing regularly now since 1929. The following items appeared in the November 24, 1933 edition. They reveal a community with an active social life and community spirit. - The Editor


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people to express their right to self-determination” and which countered claims that Jews are “colonists” of the land of Israel, by assert-ing Jewish indigeneity to the Jewish state.

Importantly, the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Association)’s definition of antisemitism asserts that “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determi-nation, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeav-our” is antisemitism.”

The Daily’s own response claimed that “The content of the (Aarenau/Shapiro) letter is unconscionable in its dehu-manization of the Palestinian people. We therefore want to apologize to our readers for its pres-ence in our paper, and pro-vide the following response to it.”

Importantly, the Daily publicly acknowl-edged and thanked the anti-Israel groups Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (Please turn to following page)

Daily never responded to their submission, the stu-dents reached out to McGill’s Deputy Provost, Fabrice Labeau, saying that the Daily was in breach of its own policies and was therefore engaging in dis-crimination, due to its avowed ideological bias and failure to foster an open exchange of ideas. It’s praiseworthy that Provost Labeau informed the Daily that if it did not publish Mr. Aarenau and Shapiro’s rebuttal that an arbitration may result in the paper’s funding being withheld. The McGill Daily’s main source of revenue of over $300,000 comes from McGill University student’s fees. Not surprisingly, The Daily postured as if it was the vic-tim accusing Provost Labeau of “administrative interference”.

Under pressure, and with the threat that its funding could be jeopar-dized, the Daily published Mr. Aarenau and Shapiro’s rebuttal which explained that “Zionism is the nation-al movement of the Jewish

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for helping the Daily “in composing this response.”

In so doing, the Daily openly acknowledged the role that anti-Israel groups have in producing its anti-Israel and antise-mitic “journalism”. So much for objectivity, fairness and political neutrality at the Daily.

For some time now, HonestReporting Canada (HRC) has taken the Daily to task for its bigoted anti-Zionist policy and for openly accusing Israel of “apartheid,” “pinkwashing”, “ethnic cleaning,” “imperial-ism” and for encouraging people to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. The Daily’s gratuitous attacks on Israel, along with its being in bed with anti-Israel groups, and its aversion to providing a platform to a pro-Israel, Zionist dis-course, has contributed to a toxic atmosphere at McGill. As a result, Jewish and pro-Israel students feel they’re being targeted and suffer from prejudice, stigmatiza-tion, and are being demo-nized.

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Enough is enough. HRC has requested a meet-ing with McGill University administrators and has filed a grievance asking the administration to conduct a formal investigation and to take immediate action to ensure that the Daily ceases its anti-Israel animus and avowed discriminatory poli-cies. We look forward to keeping you apprised of any future developments. Thank you in advance for enabling our continued efforts. Mike Fegelman Executive Director HonestReporting Canada

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Hitler could be trusted to abide by the rules, Brundage visited Germany in 1934 and returned to announce that the Nazi leadership had given him “unqualified assurances of non-discrimination.”

Brundage’s deputy, Charles Sherrill, publicly warned American Jewish boycott advocates that if they continued their protests, “we are almost certain to have a wave of anti-Semitism.” The boycott campaign was “overplaying the Jewish hand in America as it was overplayed in Germany before the present suppression and expulsion of the Jews were undertak-en,” Sherill asserted.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt could have blocked U.S. athletes from participating, as Jimmy Carter later would do in regard to the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow (to protest the Soviet occupa-tion of Afghanistan). But FDR opposed the boycott. His position in the 1930s was that maintaining cor-dial—sometimes friendly—diplomatic and trade rela-tions with Germany was more important than Hitler’s treatment of the Jews or

other human rights viola-tions.

It was not as if President Roosevelt was uninformed regarding Hitler’s intentions. The U.S. ambassador in Berlin, William Dodd, warned Washington that the Nazis were planning to use the Olympics “to rehabilitate and enhance the reputation of the ‘New Germany.’” Foreigners will “have only the usual tourist contacts” and are likely to come away doubting the veracity of “the Jewish persecution which they have previously read in their home papers,” Dodd predicted. FDR was not moved.

In addition to Jewish organizations, a number of prominent non-Jews also endorsed the boy-cott, including the gover-nors of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the NAACP, the Catholic War Veterans, and a significant number of well-known Christian cler-gymen.

The AJCongress also contacted individual ath-letes around the country, urging them to boycott the games. Only a handful of athletes did so, including Tulane University’s star sprinter, Herman Neugass; championship jumper Syd Koff, who had already qual-ified for the 1936 U.S. team; Harvard track and field stars Norman Cahners and Milton Green; speed skater Jack Shea, a Catholic, who had won a gold medal in the 1932 games; and the entire Long Island University Blackbirds basketball team, which was widely consid-ered the favorite to capture the gold in Berlin.

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fears were confirmed when he visited the White House shortly after the games. President Roosevelt told Wise that he had learned from two tourists who had attended the games “that the synagogues are crowded and apparently there is nothing very wrong in the situation [of Germany’s Jews] at present.”

Shocked, Wise tried to “explain to him how grave conditions were,” citing recent examples of “the ruthless and continuing oppression of the Jews.” It was to no avail, Wise later recalled. “He listened care-fully; but I could see that the tourists—whoever they were, the Lord bless them not—had made an impres-sion upon him.”

Eight decades later, “Shut up and dribble” remains the approach favored by those who place a premium on political or business interests. For those who value human rights above other consider-ations, however, cozying up to brutal dictators contin-ues to be a stain on America’s conscience.

testing the mistreatment of Germany’s Jews.

The Nazis prepared carefully before foreign visi-tors began arriving in the summer of 1936. Antisemitic literature was taken off the newsstands in Berlin. Physical assaults on Jews were kept to a mini-mum during the games.

Visiting journalists were duly impressed. The New York Times praised the German government for its "flawless hospitality." A Los Angeles Times correspon-dent wrote: "Zeus, in his golden days, never witnessed a show as grand as this." An editorial in that newspaper even predicted that the "spirit of the Olympiads" would "save the world from another purge of blood."

Many Americans derived satisfaction from the fact that an African-American track star, Jesse Owens, won four gold medals in Berlin. But the harm that was done out-weighed Owens’ achieve-ments. Hitler’s hosting of the Olympics gave him a way to soften his public image and allay the interna-tional community's concerns about his bigotry, violence,

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Mrs. M. Markus, of Montreal, who was the guest of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Pullan, Forest Hill Road, for the past two months, returned home last Friday.

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The formal installa-tion dance of the Aleph Zadik Aleph, Chapter 103, will take place Saturday evening, November 25th, at the Crofton Villa, Cooksville. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Raphael will act as patrons.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Paige entertained at a for-mal supper dance at the Embassy Club on Tuesday evening, November 14th in honor of their daughter, Miss Sylvia Paige, who cele-brated her eighteenth birth-day. Among the guests were: Mr. and Mrs.. Hammer, Misses Sylvia Levinter, Rose Olch, Rose Swadron, Yetta Tobin, Min Machtinger, Bernice Taube, Martha Dunn, Ethel Solway, Esther Weisbrod, Honey Olch, Lil Rosen, Ethel Lowes, Messrs. George Levin, Irving Salsberg, Alexander Freedman, Harry Olch, Jack Swadron, Ben Wurtzel, Sam Lebo, Al Leon, Jack Freedman, Maurice Shapiro, Charles Kaufman, Louis Shore and Jack Wright.

The Toronto Women’s League of the United Synagogue of America held a tea at the home of Mrs J. Lewis, Palmerston Blvd., in aid of under-privileged chil-dren. Mrs. B. Treiger, Mrs. S, Sachs, Mrs. L. M. Schwartz, Mrs. L. Adelberg, Mrs. Joshua Smith, Mrs. L. Alsteder and Mrs. M. Breland were the tea assis-tants. A hundred guests were received.

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Mrs. S. Baker and Mrs. J. Grossman were joint hostesses at a bridge held at Diana Sweets, Bloor Street, in honor of their niece, Mrs. Sydney David Cohen. The evening was enjoyed by all in attendance.

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“ridiculous” position that opponents, Jewish or sim-ply local non-Jewish resi-dents of Victoria Tower Park Gardens, are unsym-pathetic to the Jewish community. “I’m sure Mrs Van der Zyl(chairman of the Jewish Board of Deputies)is well-meaning about this. Everyone who supports this is well-meaning. But you have to dig much deeper into Jewish history and the context.”

“Holocaust memori-als, very sadly, do not appear to do anything to hold back the spread of antisemitism. I’m not say-ing we shouldn’t have another one. But you’ve got to stop and think what it’s supposed to achieve. We have five or six in this country already. Across Europe and indeed right around the world there are hundreds of Holocaust memorials and yet, espe-cially in Europe, anti-semitism is on the rise. It is such a slur to accuse anyone who opposes that design and that location of being anti-Jewish and opposing remembrance of the Holocaust.”

School Board. Latson had already been reassigned after the incident came to light in July for violations related to “ethical miscon-duct” and “failure to carry out job responsibilities.” Latson had also failed to return messages from dis-trict officials after the inci-dent had become public.

Some 2500 stu-dents attend the Spanish River Community High School and it has one of the largest Jewish student bodies in the county. Half a million Jews live in Palm Beach County, making it the largest Jewish county in the United States. No Place For a Hitler Costume

The above incident in Palm Beach County came on the heels of another problem in Utah, when a child marched in a school parade dressed as Adolf Hitler. Not only that but with his parents watching, and not objecting, the stu-dent gave the Nazi salute towards minority children.

Neutral on The Holocaust?

William Latson, a high school principal in Boca Raton, Florida, told a parent that “not everyone believes the Holocaust happened”. He added that “I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in the position to do so as a school district employ-ee...You have your thoughts, but we are a public school and not all of our parents have the same beliefs.”

Those comments led to his being fired by the Palm Beach County

The principal and a teacher at the school is Kaysville, Utah were both placed on administrative leave. United Jewish Federation Executive Director Alex Shapiro said, “It is horrible and mortify-ing that something like that was allowed to hap-pen and a child wasn’t asked to be removed from the parade.” Shapiro did, however, hope that the incident would turn into a positive by introducing the school and its faculty and students to an anti-bias curriculum developed by the Anti-Defamation League that seeks to com-bat hate and bigotry.

“The message”, said Shapiro, “is that we haven’t learned from our past.” The incident would,


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he hoped, lead to a “con-versation around what we can do to teach students about bigotry, bias, hate, antisemitism.”

SEEN AT THE RECEPTION FOR THE UNVEILING of stamp honouring Leonard Cohen. From left to right) André Ménard, Co-founder and Vice-presi-dent, L’Équipe Spectra, Montreal International Jazz Festival; Ruben Fogel, Ruben Fogel Productions; Jessica McDonald, Chair of the Board of Directors, Canada Post; Alexandra Pleshoyano, Associate Professor at Université de Sherbrooke and Chief Academic Curator of the Leonard Cohen Archive; Michel Rivard, Quebec singer-songwriter and founding member of Beau Dommage (Photo: Mario C. Melillo / Pinpoint Photography)

challah. The record set-ting challah came in at more than 32 feet long and required 150 pounds of dough and ten hours to make.

The challah, made in partnership with the Jewish National Fund in New South Wales, broke the previous record of 20 feet set in Brooklyn, New York in 2015, (Please turn to page 24)

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Spanning five acres and offering access to seven distinct swimming pools, the Garden of the Gods Pool Oasis at Caesars offers guests a variety of engaging daytime experiences in a truly beautiful setting. At the heart of Caesar’s Palace, the pool complex is situated on three levels and is filled with Roman statues and fountains. Interested in a game of swim-up blackjack? Looking for a relaxing pool-side massage? This is truly a pool for everyone.

During our visit, we spent time on incredibly comfortable daybeds at the Temple Pool. With umbrel-las available for those who wish to stay in the shade, and plenty of sun for those who do not, the pool is a breath of fresh air. Daybed seats are located just steps from the pool, allowing for quick and frequent refuge from the Vegas summer heat. We enjoyed lunch by the pool, a real treat for any guest.

Other pools avail-able include Cove Beach, which has a Mediterranean vibe and high-energy music, the Neptune Pool, which includes DJs and large floaties, and The Apollo Pool, offering a more casual atmosphere and poolside games. Take your family to the Jupiter Pool, which has life-sized games, themed floaties, and weekend activ-ities for children. Finally, visit the Fortuna Pool for the swim-up blackjack tables or the Bacchus Pool for a more VIP experience. The quality of service at all of Caesar’s pools is incom-parable.

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HELL’S KITCHEN: The world's first Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen Restaurant(www.GRHells KitchenLV.com) is an expe-rience like no other. Drawing inspiration from the global hit reality televi-sion show starring world-renowned Chef Gordon Ramsay, guests will feel like they really are on the studio set. Located in front of Caesars Palace, the restau-rant seats more than 300 guests. The Red and Blue kitchens, similar to the two teams featured on the TV show, serve up modern lunch and dinner menus, including Hell’s Kitchen sig-nature dishes made with the highest quality ingredi-ents. Gordon Ramsay, known not only for his refined cuisine, but also his TV personality on several big hit programs, among them "Hell's Kitchen," "MasterChef" and "Kitchen Nightmares," has generated worldwide attention and entertained viewers on six continents. By reputation alone, I was certain that this would be an exception-al culinary experience, and I was certainly not mistaken. Inspiration from the televi-sion show is seen through-out the restaurant—the giant signature fiery pitch-fork located in front of the

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IL MULINO: Noted Jewish businessman Jerry Katzoff is the chairman of the ever growing Il Mulino New York group of restau-rants; his wife Lee serves as vice-president. Founded in Greenwich Village in 1981, Il Mulino New York originat-ed as an intimate and esteemed eatery serving local foodies in the know. Today, it has grown to 17 locales which attract “A” list celebrities and dignitaries.

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Schindler’s List Producer Passes Away

Lustig was born in 1932 and was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen during the Holocaust. His father and grandmother, along with other members of his fami-ly, were killed by the Nazis.


His mother managed to sur-vive and the two were re-united after the war.

Lustig started his film career in Yugoslavia in the 1950s, and worked as a production supervisor on Sophie’s Choice, which was filmed partly in Yugoslavia.

In the 1980s he moved to Los Angeles where he met Steven Spielberg. The result was the 1994 Oscar winning film. Lustig also won an academy award in 2001 for Gladiator. He is the only person from present day Croatia to have ever won two academy awards.

“My number was 83317”, Lustig said in his emotional acceptance speech. “I’m a Holocaust survivor. It’s a long way from Auschwitz to this stage.”

In 2008 the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust honoured Lustig for his life time commitment to Holocaust education.

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Branko Lustig, who won an Oscar for producing Schindler’s List, died recently at 87 in his home in Croatia.

Now in its tenth year Hallmark’s “Countdown to Christmas” movies have become part of the seasonal spirit. Last year 85 million views watched at least one of the 40 Christmas films that were shown starting in late October.

But Hallmark has been facing increasing crit-icism over its lack of diver-sity, almost always focus-ing on movies with straight Caucasian families cele-brating Christmas. In response this year Hallmark has expanded its viewing to include two Chanukah movies.

And so “Holiday Date” and “Double Holiday’ are now part of this year’s holiday celebrations. “We take pitches from all kinds of movies”, says Michelle Vicary, Crown Media’s vice-president of programming. “We talked about being pur-poseful this year and mak-

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ing sure that of the hun-dreds, if not thousands, of pitches we get for the holi-day season, that we would look to have Hanukkah included if we could find the right story

Whether Hallmark got it right is another mat-ter. Critics claim that in both movies stereotype its Jewish characters. The Calmeyer Jews

German lawyer who was assigned to adjudicate cases in which the Nazis doubted a person’s claim that he was not Jewish. Calmeyer convinced his superiors that people should be permitted to chal-lenge their claims to be Jewish if their grandparents could not be proved to be Jews.

Calmeyer, says Nussbaum, “allowed him-self to be cheated”. “In two-thirds of the cases, he decided in favor of the peti-tioner,” making it easier for Germans to claim they were not Jewish. In doing so he saved thousands of Jewish lives.

Hannelore Klein’s mother was half-Jewish, says Nussbaum, who mar-ried Rudi Nussbaum after the war. But Calmeyer ruled her mother “not Jewish” and the family was able to remove the yellow stars from their clothing. The Frank family was not as fortunate. (Please turn to following page)

Laureen Nussbaum was a childhood friend of Anne Frank but that is not really the theme of her book Shedding Our Stars: A Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine.

“So much has been made of Schindler, who saved 1,200 Jews, and peo-ple really empathize with him and made him a hero”, she says of Oskar Schindler. “And I felt that Hans Calmeyer, who saved more people, is too unknown to the world....And I thought it was time that people knew about him”.

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She has served in the General Assembly since 2010.

“The firsts are not lost on me...but it doesn’t define me. We are the most diverse House Caucus in our history, which includes cultural, gender and geo-graphic diversity.”

A life member of Hadassah who has attended and spoken at many Hadassah events, she also currently serves on the boards of the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes and the Virginia Israel Advisory Board. In 2013 she intro-duced a bill marking Israel’s 65th anniversary with mem-bers of the JCRC and the Virginia Israel Advisory Board alongside her. As a teen Corn was involved in Young Judaea and spent a year in Israel. (Please turn to page 28)



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sion, she says, was adapted and changed before being published. “When I found that out, I was very upset that he had done that,” Nussbaum said. “Because nobody has the right to mess with anybody else’s text, whether that anybody else is a child or not a child. The author’s last version is what people need to read. And so I have been on my soapbox for a quarter century preaching the gospel of Anne’s revised version.” First Female And Jewish Speaker

Democrat Eileen-Filler Corn was chosen speaker of the Virginia House-of-Delegates new Democratic majority. The New York born Corn is both the first woman and first Jew to hold that position.

Nussbaum, now 92, is concerned about the last-ing images of her childhood friend. In 1995 she wrote: “Memory easily fools you and my memory is coloured, inevitably, by the fact that she has become so famous. I always found her lively and keen, but would never have thought she would turn into this icon. I am

afraid the icon has become, for some people, a source of income and the person Anne is obscured by this. She stands as a symbolic figure upon whom the world can heap both its guilt and its commiseration."

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Rick Wiles, a Florida pastor, told listeners on his TruNews You Tube channel, that the impeachment of Donald Trump is “a coup led by Jews to overthrow the constitutionally elected president of the United States and it’s beyond removing Donald Trump. It’s removing you and me...I am going to tell you, Church of Jesus Christ, you’re next....They’re com-ing for you. There will be a

purge. That’s the next thing that happens when Jews take over a country. they kill millions of Christians.”

YouTube has now banned the channel but that is not going to silence the Islamophobic, homo-phobic and anti-Semitic. Wiles. American Jewish leaders have called on Twitter, Apple and other plat-forms to also ban TruNews.

What is baffling is how TruNews somehow manages to get into White House press conferences and even ask questions.

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When European Jewish Association Chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin heard about an auction that was taking bids on a collec-tion of Nazi memorabilia, he was appalled. “Selling such items should be no different to selling the personal items of Osama bin Laden, or Anders Brevik”, he wrote to leaders of all the main-stream German political parties.

But now Rabbi Margolin has changed his tune.

Swiss business-man Abdallah Chatila spent 600,000 euros on such items as a top hat worn by Hitler, German military leader Hermann Göring’s limited print edi-tion of Mein Kampf, sev-eral handwritten letters from Hitler to a child-hood friend, a box of sil-ver music, the typewriter Hitler’s assistant used to capture his texts. a sil-ver frame offered to SS commander Ulrich Graft and a baptismal gift to Göring’s daughter.

But Chatila did not buy the items for himself. “I wanted to destroy them”, Chatila said of his motivations. But ultimately, after the items are certified, he wil l be sending them to (Please turn to following page)

T H E U S E O F N A Z I imagery in the fight against authority is all too common. The uprising in Hong Kong is no exception. As brutal as the Chinese and the Hong Kong authorities may be, there is no valid com-parison to the Holocaust.


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“As a Rabbi it is not often that I am lost for words,” said Rabbi Margolin in a letter to Chatila. “You have set an example for the world to follow when it comes to this sickening trade in Nazi trinkets.”

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Diet Prada, a fash-ion industry watchdog account on Instagram, wrote that “there’s not actually much left to the imagination when the resulting look is so uncan-nily disturbing.”

Loewe has apolo-gized for the item which could be “misconstrued as referring to one of the most odious moments in the history of mankind”.

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