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July 25, 2012

Founder of London Shomrim carries Olympic Torch

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The founder of London’s Shomrim patrol carried the Olympic torch in South London.

Efrayim Goldstein, 23, was one of 187 people who carried the Olympic torch through the city on July 23.

Goldstein wore the official white Olympic uniform and was given a matching yarmulke, according to VIN News. He carried the torch for about a half-mile at 8:30 a.m.

After handing off the torch, Goldstein and a group of fellow torchbearers observed a moment of silence in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches who were killed by terrorists at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, according to VIN.

Goldstein is the founder of the Shomrim Safety Patrol and runs a soup kitchen. According to the nomination for Goldstein, he set up seven charities by the time he became 16.

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Calif. Supreme Court upholds lawsuit against Jewish cemetery firm

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The California Supreme Court upheld class-action status for a lawsuit alleging gross misconduct by a Jewish funeral services provider that had paid a $100 million settlement over similar misconduct.

On July 23, the court upheld a lower-court ruling on the suit against Texas-based Service Corp. International (SCI) alleging mass desecration of grave sites at a Jewish cemetery in Mission Hills, Calif., clearing the way for families to collectively seek hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys have estimated damages at more than $500 million. A trial was scheduled for Oct. 15.

The lawsuit, filed in September 2009, claims that SCI and its employees purposely desecrated hundreds of Jewish graves and improperly disposed of human remains and bones in mass graves in order to make room for new burials, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. 

The lawsuit alleges that groundskeepers were repeatedly instructed by cemetery management to secretly break concrete vaults with a backhoe and remove, dump and discard the human remains — including human skulls — to make room for new burials in the interest of increased profits.

In 2003, SCI agreed to a $100 million settlement with Menorah Gardens in Southwest Ranches, Fla., after being accused of misplacing bodies, smashing vaults and overselling plots at its graveyards near Palm Beach Gardens and Fort Lauderdale.

SCI, along with other companies, also is facing a $200 million lawsuit in Florida for desecrating burial plots and placing the wrong bodies in several grave sites.

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Celebrations mark end of Talmud cycle

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Serious study of the Talmud requires a high level of devotion and consistency. Finishing all 63 volumes of rabbinical discourse in one’s lifetime is an admirable feat. Completing the whole series in a little more than seven years is almost unfathomable.

Yet a core group of thousands of Talmud enthusiasts across the globe has done exactly that — studying the entire set of Gemara through the Daf Yomi method of learning. Those who take part in learning Daf Yomi, or “a page a day,” complete study of the entire Babylonian Talmud in about seven and a half years.

The Daf Yomi program is large enough that most participants learn the same page on the same day, regardless of geography. Next month marks the 12th time that Daf Yomi participants will have completed the entire set, also known as shas (an acronym of Shisha Sedarim, which refer to the six orders of the Talmud) since the widespread practice began in Poland in 1923.

On Aug. 1, the anticipated finishing date for the study, Jews across the globe will celebrate completion of their study by participating in a Siyum HaShas, or celebration for completing shas.

Agudath Israel of California is hosting a Siyum HaShas at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown Los Angeles on Aug. 1 at 5:15 p.m. The program at the venue, which has a 3,100-person capacity, will include a live link-up to the Worldwide Agudath Israel movement’s main siyum in New Jersey, where 90,000 people are expected to fill MetLife Stadium.

The Agudath Israel program will also feature keynote speaker Dayan Aharon Dovid Dunner, a sitting member of the London Beit Din. The event will also honor participants in other learning programs, such as the It’s My Siyum Too program, which celebrates those who have completed a section or particular book of learning rather than the entire Talmud.

“The concept is that we’re trying to enhance the study of Torah,” said Irving Lebovics, who chairs the presidium of Agudath Israel of California. “We just want to get people more involved.”

Lebovics also said that the siyum would be a unifying event for local Jewry.

“This cuts across several different areas of the Orthodox community,” he said. “We don’t have this opportunity that often to bring together the entire community.”

Similar gatherings around the world, including those in Chicago and Toronto, will feature link-ups to the main Agudath Israel siyum in New Jersey.

The event at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion will not be the only Daf Yomi celebration in Los Angeles. Reb Mimi Feigelson, masphiah ruchanit (spiritual mentor) and a professor of Rabbinic Literature and Chasidic Thought at American Jewish University’s Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, will also be celebrating completion of shas next month. Feigelson, who is the first female to receive Orthodox rabbinic ordination, learned the entire set of Talmud in sync with the Daf Yomi calendar, but learned almost entirely by herself.

“There’s a great amount of joy, and there’s a great amount of gratitude,” Feigelson said. “There’s a deep sense of belonging to my tradition and to my heritage.”

Feigelson began learning Daf Yomi from a Vilna Shas, the classic edition of the Talmud, periodically supplementing with an online lecture, though she stopped learning through the latter because, as a woman, she found the lecturer offensive.

“The Jewish world is not prepared for the reality that women are doing Daf Yomi,” she said. “There’s a conception the online lecturer is talking to Charedi men, but that is not the case.”

A growing number of women are learning Daf Yomi. This past cycle, around 30 participants were involved in an Israeli group called the Matan Talmud Program, a by-women-for-women Daf Yomi program. The Matan Talmud Program will host a celebration next month.

Feigelson says she is saving the last few lines of the Talmud for Shabbat morning, Aug. 4, at B’nai David-Judea, where she will deliver an afternoon shiur titled “The Meaning of Life and Life: From Brachot to Nidda in 30 Minutes.” She has yet to decide if she will attend the community-wide event at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

“I’m not sure that’s the place I want to be,” she said.

After completing the Babylonian Talmud, Feigelson hopes to begin study of the Jerusalem Talmud, which is not studied as commonly. Although there currently is no structure for daily study of the Yerushalmi, she hopes to study that series at the same pace — a page a day.

The Agudath Israel-run siyum at The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is open to the public with orchestra seating available for men and loge seating available for women. For more information, visit this article at jewishjournal.com.

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Memorial service honors Lithuanian Charedi leader

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Several hundred men and women attended a memorial service at Congregation Shaarei Tefila on July 23 to honor Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, head of the Lithuanian Charedi communities in Israel. Attendees packed into Kanner Hall on Beverly Boulevard to hear eulogies and pay respects to the late leader, who died in Jerusalem at 102 on July 18.

The service began with introductions from Yeshivat Yavneh’s Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn. Rabbi Gershon Bess of Congregation Kehilas Yaakov delivered the main eulogy, which focused on the late rabbi’s dedication to learning.

“The clarity and detail of the texts that he achieved was world renowned,” Bess said. “He was a light sleeper and a heavy learner.”

Remarks by Rabbi Baruch Yehuda Gradon of Merkaz Hatorah and Rabbi Avrohom Ausband of Yeshiva of Telshe Alumni Riverdale followed.

Throughout his life, Elyashiv was considered a leading authority on a variety of issues and made rulings on issues ranging from elevator use on Shabbat to the permissibility of eating foie gras. He also advised the Israeli political party Degel HaTorah.

Elyashiv’s health had been in decline in recent years. In February, he was admitted to a hospital for lung and heart problems.

An estimated 250,000 people turned out at Elyashiv’s late-night funeral in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Elyashiv is survived by nearly 1,000 descendants, stemming from his 10 surviving children.

The July 23 memorial service was organized through Yeshivat Yavneh in conjunction with local synagogues and organizations. Einhorn, who recently became dean and rav of the school, was at one time a regular at Elyashiv’s lectures.

“[Elyashiv] had an incredible and unparalleled commitment to Torah study,” he said. “What really made him great was his consistency in his approach to learning.”

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Iran accuses Israel of plotting Bulgaria bus attack

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Iran’s U.N. envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed.

A suicide bomber blew up the bus in a car park at Burgas airport, a popular gateway for tourists visiting Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, killing himself, the Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver and wounding more than 30 people.

Israel has accused Iran and the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah of the bombing. Iran has denied the accusations.

“It’s amazing that just a few minutes after the terrorist attack, Israeli officials announced that Iran was behind it,” Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told a U.N. Security Council debate on the Middle East. “We have never and will not engage in such a despicable attempt on … innocent people.”

“Such terrorist operation could only be planned and carried out by the same regime whose short history is full of state terrorism operations and assassinations aimed implicating others for narrow political gains,” Khazaee said. “I could provide … many examples showing that this regime killed its own citizens and innocent Jewish people during the last couple of decades.

Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Haim Waxman said Iran’s fingerprints were all over the bomb attack in Bulgaria, as well as dozens of other plots in recent months around the world.

“These comments are appalling, but not surprising from the same government that says the 9/11 attack was a conspiracy theory and denies the Holocaust,” Waxman said in a statement.

Some analysts believe Iran is trying to avenge the assassinations of several scientists involved in its controversial nuclear program that it blames on Israel and the United States. Israeli diplomats have been targeted in several countries in recent months by bombers who the Jewish state maintained had struck on behalf of Tehran.

“The time has come for the world to put an end to this campaign of terror, once and for all,” Waxman said.

Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Jackie Frank

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Eco-friendly home reveals ‘greener’ pastures ahead [SLIDESHOW]

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As scientists continue to warn us that our over-consumption of natural resources is putting too great a strain on our planet, the idea of sustainability — of reducing one’s carbon footprint, recycling and finding a cleaner, greener future — has never been more popular. And while the green trend has been picking up steam in the home-building world, there aren’t many places where it’s been more evident than at the new Vision House in Pacific Palisades, and in the work of its interior designer, Jill Wolff.

The Vision House is a concept of Green Builder Media, a leading national North American media company focused on green building and sustainable development, who previously constructed Vision Houses — state-of-the-art, environmentally conscious dwellings — in cities such as Orlando, Fla., and Aspen, Colo. Two years ago, Robert Kleiman, one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based Structure Home, was looking to become more green in his own home designs. He noticed Green Builder’s leadership in the area and contacted the firm for help.

“It’s easy to learn individually how to build green,” said Kleiman, speaking by phone from his offices, “but it’s hard to teach a whole culture.” Kleiman knew that with Green Builder’s help, Structure Home could learn from the best, and so the Vision House Los Angeles was born. 

Wolff, the owner and founder of Jill Wolff Interior Design, has worked on more than 300 homes in the Los Angeles area over the past 25 years. The Vision House, however, presented a new challenge for her, and a learning experience. “I learned so much about green design and sustainability on this project,” Wolff said. 

Touring the home, which sits on a gently sloping residential street in Pacific Palisades, offers a master class in the use of space. The house sits on a long, narrow lot that “was actually the swimming pool for the house next door,” according to Wolff, who tailored much of her design, in concert with the architects, to make “it feel like it’s not just a skinny, narrow, bowling alley kind of house.”

The main entrance is at the center of the home, leading on one side into a spacious living and dining area with tall, movable glass walls that open onto a carefully landscaped back yard. On the other side, a downstairs office sports huge glass doors that let in ample natural light. Nothing about the home feels cramped or narrow. 

“From the exterior you have an anticipation of what it’s going to be,” Wolff said. “But when you walk through the door and you see the comfort level and the coziness and the warmth of the materials that are used, it takes you on a different trip.” Much of the home’s colorful and often-whimsical art was made by graduates of Otis College of Art and Design.

Wolff said she got her start in design at an early age. “I decided that I wanted to be an interior designer when I was 8 years old,” she said, laughing. “I decided that because my mom’s best friend was an interior decorator, and she had decorated our house, and I had loved the whole process of it. I thought it was so fun and so creative.”

After high school, she studied at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. “I was lucky enough to intern with a big-time Hollywood designer named Barbara Lockhart, and that just clinched the whole deal,” Wolff said. “I had all these great women that influenced me in my career, and I’ve been working ever since.”

The Vision House was an unusual project for Wolff, she said. “Since it’s a spec house, and I didn’t really have clients, I created a faux family … a kind of fantasy of who the family is going to be.” The house abounds with recycled materials, including a wagon wheel that has been turned into a mirror and corrugated cardboard shaped into surprisingly beautiful light fixtures.

The home also showcases technology such as hydronic radiant heating, solar panels and a gray-water system with ultraviolet disinfection. “The Vision House has the latest in technology, but I want people to see that if they’re clever and if they think about it, they can bring a level of sustainability into their own homes,” said Wolff. “Anything is a start.”

Most of all, Wolff shows that green living can be fun and fashionable: “I really want people to see that it can be comfortable, it can be cozy … and it can be unexpected,” Wolff said. “It’s not just green to be green. It’s green to create a better life for someone.”

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Obituraries: July 27 – August 2

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Ruth Ash died June 21 at 85. Survived by sons David (Peggy), Harold (Edythe); 2 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Ruth Avrick died June 14 at 88. Survived by husband Alan; daughter Joady (Bruce) Miller; sons Michael, William; 2 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren. Hillside

Cecelia Berman died June 18 at 82. Survived by daughters Chasha (Nochum) Smoller, Andi Andree; sister Leija Schulwolf. Mount Sinai

Norman Howard Bragar died June 14 at 87. Survived by wife Helen; daughters Karen (Robert) Limbaugh, Janet (Dennis) Lawton; son Kenneth (Iris); 7 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Lucille Wyn Walder Burkenheim died June 15 at 96. Survived by husband Jack; stepdaughter, Lillian (Bruce) Silver; stepson Ken (Cynthia); 3 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Joseph Dahan died June 7 at 82. Survived by daughters Valerie, Pascale; son Eric. Malinow and Silverman

Julius Feldstein died June 20 at 89. Survived by daughters Janice Bender, Gail Sperling; son Steven; 4 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild. Mount Sinai

Sala Freydrych died June 10 at 87. Survived by husband Henry; sons Jack (Susan), Michael (Susan); 3 grandchildren; stepbrother Bruno Swass. Mount Sinai

Pauline Rebecca Geller died June 13 at 95. Survived by husband George; daughter Linda Race; son Dan (Ellen Frankel); 5 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren. Hillside

Shirley Glick died June 7 at 104. Survived by daughters Judith Gellert, Anne G. (Myles); 4 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Milton Harold Gross died June 14 at 94. Survived by daughter Elyse; 1 grandchild. Hillside

Wendy Harwood died June 19 at 59. Survived by husband Andrew; daughter Amanda; son Adam. Mount Sinai

Irene Hagler died June 5 at 74. Survived by daughter Kerie; sons Michael, Cliff; 1 grandchild.

Morris Hattem died June 17 at 94.  Survived by son Neil (Barbara); daughter Paula (Benjamin) Iny; brother Leon (Sydel); 5 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren. Groman Eden

Eleanor Hirsch died June 7 at 83. Survived by daughters Linda (Alan) Han, Janice (Frank) Alvarado, Ilene (Jerry) Ferenczy; 7 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Adrienne Holzman died June 14 at 78. Survived by daughter Carrie (Dane) Holzman-Little; son David (Lynn); 5 grandchildren; sister Sylvia Miller; brother Jerry (Phyllis) Steinholtz. Mount Sinai

Shirley Howard died June 16 at 92. Survived by daughter Joyce (Richard) Cecere; son David (Melissa); 8 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren; sister Jessica Dreyfuss. Mount Sinai

Mary Jannol died June 7 at 87. Survived by sons Henry (Miriam), Martin (Susan); 3 grandchildren. Hillside

Laura Katz died June 13 at 98. Survived by daughter Avra (Harvey) Diamond; daughter, Linda Miller; son Arthur; 5 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren; sister Dorothy Neiman. Mount Sinai

Muriel Klitsner died June 10 at 87. Survived by husband Irving; daughters Ronni (Jeffrey) Weiss, Kathy Ellison, Cheri (David) Levenson; son John; 8 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; brother Marvin (Teddi) Calmenson. Hillside

Lillian Kopf died June 14 at 88. Survived by husband Morris. Hillside

Max Leemon died June 19 at 93. Survived by wife Sara; daughter Evelyn (Richard) Goldman; son Leroy (Irene); 2 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Basheva Levinsky died June 12 at 92. Survived by daughter Laura; 7 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; daughter-in-law Laurie. Mount Sinai

Jack Lieberman died June 10 at 95. Survived by son Howard. Malinow and Silverman

Rebecca Ruff Malatsky died June 14 at 58. Survived by husband Buzz; sister Debra (Albert) Mack. Mount Sinai

Lillian Bruder Marks died June 12 at 92. Survived by sons Mark (Diedra), Philip Bruder; 2 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Willard Lee Marmelzat died June 15 at 93. Survived by daughters Jill (Andrew) Bland, Jina (Dave) Lindstedt; son Jonathan; 3 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Annie Miller died June 9 at 82. Survived by sons Stephen, Mervyn. Sholom Chapels

Shirley Nitkin died June 9 at 89. Survived by daughters Bobbie (Harold) Grossman, Linda (Al) Pfeifer, Diane (Jerry) Weil; 3 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Marion Pfefer died June 14 at 96. Survived by daughter Harriet Levenson; son Lawrence (Nancy); 5 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Harry Rosen died June 18 at 94. Survived by wife Yvette; daughter Dana Greatman; son David Paul Rosen; 3 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild; brother William (Beverly). Mount Sinai

Jordan Rosengard died June 6 at 83. Survived by wife Betty; daughter Lise; sons Scott, Jay. Mount Sinai

Geraldine Audrey Schneider died June 13 at 77. Survived by husband Jerome; daughter Donna; sons Craig, Jeffrey; 9 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild; sister Barbara Gertzman. Mount Sinai

Lila Serber died June 18 at 83. Survived by daughter Sari (Harry Schufrin); son Joel (Natalie); 3 grandchildren; sister Doris Lazner. Mount Sinai

Jean Shaffer died June 19 at 89. Survived by daughters Ronna (Henry) Chavin, Robby Estrin; son Rande; 3 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Norman Shapiro died June 8 at 84. Survived by wife Barbara; daughter Marla (Kenneth) Hertz; son Gary (Claire); 4 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Irving Sobel died June 10 at 95. Survived by daughter Linda (Dominic) Cirincione; sons Marvin (Lindy), Ronald (Paula); 3 grandchildren. Hillside

Jerry Watson died June 16 at 84. Survived by companion Leila Landau; 1 nephew. Mount Sinai

Ronald Lewis Weiler died June 14 at 59. Survived by wife Nicole Radoumis-Weiler; daughter Alexandra; sons Adam, Steven; mother Doris; stepsons Christopher Radoumis, Timothy Taylor, Jonathan Taylor; stepdaughter Megan Taylor; sister Ellen Kattleman. Mount Sinai

Tillie Weininger died June 10 at 102. Survived by son Art (Nona). Sholom Chapels

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L.A. camp gets unwanted attention in wake of Colorado shooting

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Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes’ reported ties to Camp Max Straus have led to unwanted attention for Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles and its camp, its director said.

“I think the attention is unfortunate,” Randy Schwab, CEO of Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles and Camp Max Straus, said during a July 23 phone interview.

Following last week’s shooting rampage in Aurora, Colo., media reported that Holmes, 24, worked as a counselor at Glendale-based Camp Max Straus during summer 2008. The camp and its parent organization have found themselves trying to avoid negative attention while coming to terms with the knowledge that Holmes — who is suspected of killing 12 people and injuring 58 — was once responsible for a group of approximately 10 children.

On July 20, Holmes allegedly walked into a movie theater during a midnight screening of the Batman finale, “The Dark Knight Rises,” and, armed with multiple weapons, began shooting. He was arrested immediately following the incident and is currently being held in a Colorado detention facility. Holmes made his first court appearance on July 23.

Holmes grew up in the upscale northwest San Diego neighborhood of Rancho Peñasquitos and attended a local Presbyterian church with his family, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Holmes’ connection to Camp Max Straus was discovered through a resume found on employment Web site Monster.com following the shooting.

Situated on 100-plus scenic acres in the Verdugo Mountains and at the end of a cul-de-sac in a quiet residential neighborhood, Max Straus serves a primarily non-Jewish population of low-income and disadvantaged youth ages 7-12. Mentoring organization Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles owns and operates the nonsectarian camp.

Director Schwab has resisted being interviewed, instead referring reporters to a written statement confirming Holmes was a cabin counselor at Camp Max Straus for eight weeks during the summer of 2008.

“Camp Max Straus is accredited and adheres to rigorous standards to ensure the safety and security of its campers and staff,” the statement says. “All employees of the camp are subjected to a thorough screening process.”

On July 23, NBC Channel 4 News shot footage for a live segment from outside of Max Straus. The news station’s van had been parked outside the camp for approximately five hours, said NBC general assignment reporter Cary Berglund, who was on the scene.

[Related: Former Jewish camp staffer worked closely with James Holmes]

Berglund arrived at the camp hoping to interview camp staff, but counselors declined interview requests and Schwab did not speak to reporters. Two security guards patrolled the entrance, forbidding reporters from walking onto the property, and handed out copies of Schwab’s written statement.

The camp is currently in session, and young children could be seen walking amid the cabins.

Speaking to The Journal, Berglund said that Max Straus doesn’t deserve negative attention, even though it’s “chilling that somebody like [Holmes] was actually a counselor at a kids camp.”

“Somebody like that could be anywhere at any time,” Berglund said. “I don’t think it reflects badly on the camp. It’s just kind of an eerie addition to what the story is.”

A man who worked with Holmes at Max Straus told CNN that he was a “nice guy” who worked well with children.

“He was a little isolated, but he was, you know, a nice guy,” Gabriel Menchaca said.

The attention that the camp has received is surprising and undesirable, according to a former camp staff member who had worked with Holmes.

“I’m looking at us all over TMZ,” the former camp staff member said on July 22, speaking to The Journal on condition of anonymity. “There’s my picture, it’s crazy.” 

“We had a great summer in 2008, and we don’t want this backlash to spoil it,” the former staffer added. “It’s unfortunate that they’re screaming about the camp all over the news.”

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Forty years after the Munich Olympic massacre in which 11 Israeli Olympians were killed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) still has not honored the Israeli victims of a so-called peaceful Olympics.  In 1972, not only did the German Government ignore warnings three weeks before the Olympics of an impending terrorist plot against the Israelis, after the massacre the games went on -business as usual.  Of course there were pictures of a few people crying- but recently released pictures of the Olympic village after the massacre show athletes lounging in the sun as the party went on cause they were only Jews-only 11 of them-after all Germany killed six million 30 years before -so what’s another 11?

But the show must go on – and on the Olympics went.  Let’s cut the BS- If Russian athletes were murdered,  would the show go on?  Nyet- Cuban athletes?  No way Jose!  But Israelis, who cares?  Jewish life is cheap.  The US should have pulled out of the Olympics immediately but didn’t.  And the world quickly forgot. 
For forty years Israel has asked for a moment of silence for the athletes and forty years it was rejected.

“It’s a downer.” “The Jews should get over it”  “Let’s party!”  The head of the IOC, Jaques Rogge, (himself an athlete at the 1972 Olympics) is an anti-semitic piece of shit-yes I said it—doesn’t believe in a moment of silence at the opening ceremonies Friday night in London.  Instead, to deflect criticism,  he held his own moment of silence with a few of his friends earlier this week in a private ceremony. How lovely!  He is saying to himself “Why won’t these g-d damn Jews stop whining already?”

What these damn Jews want is a moment of silence.  The whole Olympic village is a sham.  The IOC is a sham. Peace, love and brotherhood is a sham.  How nice that the team from Iran has graciously consented not to run off the field this Olympics, if they face Israeli opponents unlike years past.  After all, we Jews should be grateful that Israel is even invited to participate at all.  How many countries don’t even recognize our right to exist? 

The real hero is Ankie Spitzer, widow of murdered Israeli fencing coach Andrei Spitzer, who has been trying to get the IOC to honor these victims.  Her pleas have fallen on deaf ears.  If the Olympics won’t pay tribute to our fallen heroes then we need to do it ourselves.  The 2012 Israeli Olympic team needs to march into the Stadium Friday night wearing black armbands and pictures of our murdered athletes.  F it, and I don’t give a damn, we need to have some respect for ourselves and march in with our heads held up high to remind the world that our athletes were murdered during this so-called peaceful event and if the world community won’t do the right thing and honor them-we will!

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Egyptian candid camera gets violent when actor told he’s on Israeli TV

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