Israelis Have Spoken and Prefer Netanyahu, Though Hurdles ...

Azerbaijan Minister Makes History by Attending AIPAC,

Praises Ties With Israel

(JNS) — Azerbaijan made his-tory on Sunday by becoming the first country with a Shi’ite majority to have a cabinet-level minister give a speech at the annual AIPAC Policy Confer-

ence in Washington, D.C. Samir Sharifov, Azerbai-

jan’s finance minister, told the crowd: “Cooperation with Isra-el is not limited to oil supply;

Samir Sharifov, Azerbaijan’s finance minister, addresses the 2020 AIPAC Policy Conference. (Screenshot)

Jewish and Other Minority Groups Denounce California’s Narrow

Focus in Ethnic-Studies Curriculumby SEAN SAVAGE

(JNS) — Several Jewish and other ethnic minority organi-zations are urging California’s leaders to reconsider narrow-

ing the state’s proposed eth-nic-studies curriculum, which focuses solely on “people of color” at the expense of other minority groups in the state. The new course of study has generated controversy over alle-gations of anti-Semitism in past proposals.

In a letter addressed to Cali-fornia Gov. Gavin Newsom, De-

The Vatican Unseals Secret Archive on Holocaust-Era Pope Pius XIIby MARCY OSTER

(JTA) — The Vatican unsealed its secret archive relating to the controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII.

Critics accuse Pius of having turned a blind eye to Jewish suffering, and researchers hope the archive will reveal why the pope did not intervene to help the Jews during the Holocaust. The Vatican maintains that Pius worked behind the scenes to save Jews.

Jewish and other scholars have long called on the Vatican to open its secret archives to clarify the issue.

The archive was unsealed Monday after archivists spent

14 years taking inventory of its contents, the French news agency AFP reported. Some 200 researchers requested access to the archive before its opening.

Pius was the pope from March 2, 1939 to Oct. 9, 1958, and his role during the Holo-caust has been a bone of con-tention for years.

Pius, when he was still Eu-genio Pacelli, served as the Holy See ambassador to Ger-many in 1917-29, where he wit-nessed the beginning of the rise of Nazism.

The pope may have alluded to the systematic murder of the Jews during his Christmas

Critics accuse Pope Pius XII of having turned a blind eye to Jew-ish suffering during World War II. (Wikimedia Commons)

Coronavirus Triggers Closures, Mass Quarantines for New York Jewish Community

by LAURA E. ADKINSNEW YORK (JTA) — Four

Jewish day schools have tem-porarily closed, while 600 con-gregants and two university students have been required to self-quarantine as a result of the coronavirus.

Here’s what we knew as of Tuesday afternoon: There have been two reported cases of coronavirus in New York, and one is a 50-something Or-thodox Jewish attorney from suburban Westchester County. One of his sons is an under-

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, flanked by state Department of Health Com-missioner Howard Zucker, left, and New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio, hold a news conference in Manhattan on the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in New York state, March 2. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Arrest of Harvard Professor Rattles Science World

by MARK MAGNIERThe Trump administration

is adopting increasingly ag-gressive tactics in its bid to counter Chinese theft of trade secrets with the arrest of a prominent Harvard professor and high-profile investigations into top universities.

The move against one of the nation’s foremost scientists — Charles Lieber, chairman of the Harvard chemistry department — and the threat of criminal charges against Harvard, Yale and other prestigious univer-sities over reporting violations has sent shock waves through the scientific establishment.

Unlike many other recent cases involving scientists of Chinese descent, Lieber is Cau-casian. He and leading univer-

sities are also being accused of failing to disclose ties to China

Charles Lieber, chairman of the Harvard chemistry department (pic-tured), was charged with lying to federal authorities about a project in China. (Reuters/Katherine Taylor)

Israelis Have Spoken and Prefer Netanyahu, Though Hurdles

Remain on Way to Governmentby DOV LIPMAN

(JNS) — Israeli Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu declared “a giant victory” on Monday night for the Likud Party and the Israeli right-wing. With 92 percent of the votes counted, Likud won 36 seats and the right-wing/religious bloc 59 seats.

Netanyahu told a roaring crowd at the Likud victory cel-ebration in Tel Aviv, “We stood against massive forces. They already eulogized us. Our op-ponents said the Netanyahu era is over. But together, we flipped the script. We turned

lemons to lemonade.”While Likud and their bloc

are unlikely to have enough seats to form a majority gov-

erning coalition of 61, the rival Blue and White Party won just 32 seats and it’s only

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after meeting with the heads of parties in the Knesset one day after Likud receives the most votes in three rounds of Israeli general elections, allowing him to try and form a new gov-ernment, March 3. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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To The Editor:I see that you are promoting

the MK Gandhi Institute in the Jewish Ledger. We should em-brace those who are friends of Israel and the Jewish people, regardless of what religion or nationality they happen to come from. However, Gandhi was no friend to the Jews. You can Google the information for your-selves. Among his comments:

“Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butch-er’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they suc-

cumbed anyway in their mil-lions.”

He also said, “I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is de-picted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.”

However, Gandhi was not a complete pacifist when it came to India. In 1922, he wrote, “(R)epeatedly I said that I would have India become free even by vio-lence rather than that she should remain in bondage.” (Jewish Vir-tual Library)

I would hope that the Feder-ation would cease supporting

such an institute. At minimum, the Gandhi Institute should renouce these comments by Gandhi, much as the Lutheran Church has renounced the an-ti-Semitism of Martin Luther. I would also hope that the Jewish Ledger (an otherwise excellent newspaper!) would also cease publicizing such events. It would be appropriate also for the Led-ger to publish an article about Gandhi’s statements about the Holocaust and the Jewish people.

If this support for the Gandhi Institute continues, I will cease support for the Federation and encourage my friends and ac-quaintances to do the same.

Shalom— Richard A Chaimberlin

To The Editor:The Gatestone Institute is a

far-right think tank known for publishing anti-Muslim arti-cles such as “The History of Non-Aggression Pacts in Islam” (Feb. 20). This article by a Gatestone distinguished senior fellow states that treaties with Muslim nations can never be trusted; in fact, it states that Islam actually defines all peace agreements as temporary armi-stices to be broken when it gets the upper hand. Can we really believe this? I’m not a fact checker, so I ask knowledgeable sources to write in.

It’s ironic, isn’t it, that the author condemns the routine breaking of agreements through the ages by Muslim-led nations. How many agreements has President Trump broken, with-drawn from or weakened?

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Israel Advancing Thousands of New Homes in East Jerusalem

Israel’s Housing Ministry is promoting the construction of 9,000 Israeli homes in east Je-rusalem, Peace Now reported on Tuesday, saying the project will focus mainly in the Atarot area in the city.

The move comes on the heels of a Transportation Ministry plan to extend the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed train to the Western Wall in the capital’s old city.

The group said the new homes are slated to come up be-tween the Palestinian neighbor-hoods of Kafr ‘Aqab, Qalandiya and Al-Ram in Jerusalem, but the approval process for a proj-ect of this scope is expected to take years.

If approved, this will be the first new neighborhood in east Jerusalem since Har Homa in 1997.

Peace Now condemned the move as “another blow” to the peace process.

“The planned neighborhood will drive a wedge in the heart of the Palestinian urban sprawl between Ramallah and east Jerusalem, and prevent the es-tablishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in east Jerusalem. Netanyahu is lead-ing Israel to the reality of a binational apartheid state and is putting the Zionist enterprise in jeopardy,” the leftist group rebuked.

According to the Jerusalem-Post, the majority of the land earmarked for the project is considered government prop-erty and as such would not be taken from private owners.

Dozens of Palestinian homes built in the area illegally will most likely be demolished as part of the plan.

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Bernie Sanders Says Pro-Israel Lobby Has ‘a Lot of Money’ and ‘a Lot of Power’

by MARCY OSTER(JTA) — Democratic presiden-

tial candidate Bernie Sanders said the pro-Israel lobby has “a lot of money; they have a lot of power” in a television interview.

Sanders was responding to a question on the CBS News

program “Face the Nation” from moderator Margaret Brennan, who asked the Vermont senator if he sees a “a political cost in taking on the pro-Israel lobby,” referring to his recent war of words with AIPAC.

Sanders, cu r rent ly t he front-runner in the Democratic race, told Brennan he is not an-ti-Israel and is concerned about the suffering of the Palestinian people.

“Look, I’m Jewish and I’m very proud of my Jewish heri-tage,” he said. “As a kid, I spent time in Israel. I am not anti-Is-rael. I will do everything I can to protect the independence and the security and the freedom of the Israeli people. “But what we

need in this country is a foreign policy that not only protects Israel, but deals with the suf-fering of the Palestinian people as well.

“I want to bring people together to fi-nally achieve peace in that region.”

Sanders an-nounced late l a s t mon t h that he would not attend the annual confer-ence held by AIPAC because he i s “con-cerned about

the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights.” b

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Revolutionary Brain Cancer Treatment Becomes Available in Israel

by ATTILA SOMFALVI & ALEXANDRA LUKASH

A new groundbreaking can-cer treatment developed by Is-raeli scientists, which fights malignant brain tumors using

electric pulses, has become available to patients in Israel.

The innovative treatment was added to the national drug and treatment formulary, which pro-vides subsidized healthcare by

the state to members of health maintenance organizations, for the year 2020.

This FDA-approved treatment comes in the form of a device that delivers Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) for glioblasto-ma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Tumor Treating Fields use alternating electric fields spe-cifically tuned to target cancer cells. Once electric fields enter the cancerous cell, they attract and repel charged proteins during the division process of the hostile cell, preventing the tumor’s growth while caus-ing minimal harm to nearby healthy cells.

The device, a helmet-like ob-ject called Optune, is designed for adult patients who were recently diagnosed with GBM and is administered to brain

cancer sufferers going through chemotherapy treatments, spe-cifically with an agent called temozolomide, used to fight off certain types of brain cancer.

Optune was developed by Israeli biotech company No-vocure, and specifically by Yoram Palti, a professor of physiology and biophysics at the Technion Institute of Tech-nology.

According to the company’s spokesperson, the most com-mon side effect reported by patients is mild to moderate irritation of the skin.

Already in useMichael Parnaski was diag-

nosed with GMB over two years ago. He received chemotherapy and radiation treatment but saw no improvement.

While undergoing treatment

at Haifa’s Rambam Hospital, Parnaski was given the Optune helmet as a last resort. Since then, tumor growth stagnated and the patient reports feeling well.

“I went through chemother-apy and radiation treatments and this treatment has simply prevented the creation of new [cancer] cells. It prevents can-cer from dividing,” said Par-naski. “I have great faith in this device. While my tumor’s state doesn’t seem to improve, it also doesn’t seem to get any worse.”

According to Novocure, Tumor Treating Fields is ap-proved in certain countries in Europe and in Canada for treat-ing adults with glioblastoma and in the U.S. for mesotheli-oma, two of the most difficult cancer types to treat. b

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Patient Michael Parnaski wearing the device. (Ynet)

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Lost 1,000-Year-Old Hebrew Bible Found On Dusty Cairo Synagogue Shelf

by AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN In July 2017, Israeli histo-

rian Yoram Meital stumbled upon a handwritten 1028 CE biblical codex that was lying abandoned on a dusty shelf in a Cairo synagogue. Wrapped in simple white paper of the sort one finds on tables in cheap eateries, at 616 pages, the Zechariah Ben ‘Anan Man-uscript is one of the era’s most complete and preserved ex-amples of the “Writings,” the third and concluding section of the Hebrew Bible. It had been lost to scholars for almost 40 years.

Discovered by Meital in the Karaite Moussa Der’i Syna-gogue, the Zechariah Ben ‘Anan Manuscript (ZBAM) was previously documented in var-ious publications by modern biblical scholars, from a 1905 Jewish Quarterly Review arti-cle by leading expert Richard Gottheil through to microfilms of the manuscript done by a team of Israelis from the In-stitute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts in June 1981.

The scholars left notes with-in the texts, and even pub-lished their findings. Then, as the Jewish community in-creasingly lost its members, the priceless manuscript, too, disappeared.

After decades of trips to Egypt for his academic pub-lications as a professor at Ben-Gurion University, in July 2017 Meital was in Cairo as a private scholar taking part in a Jewish community project headed by the Drop of Milk organization to document the city’s many synagogues — and seeking fodder for an upcom-ing book.

His trip to the 1933 Moussa Der’i Synagogue, a monumen-tal structure built at the height of the community’s wealth and power, was meant to record its impressive architecture — built in the shape of a four-horned altar — and its many stained-glass windows and other ornamentation.

The ongoing documenta-tion project reflects a win-dow of opportunity to record Egypt’s Jewish heritage that has opened since the rise of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in 2014 and the 2013 election of current Cairo Jewish com-

munity head Magda Haroun, who also heads Drop of Milk. The Cairo Jewish community now numbers only a handful of Jews, but according to Egyp-tian law has control over com-munity assets and artifacts, said Meital.

In recent years, efforts have increased to document, pre-serve, and eventually show-case Egypt’s Jewish heritage, as illustrated by the emotional February 14 re-inauguration of the renovated Alexandria synagogue, as well as import-ant work in crumbling Jewish cemeteries.

“In Egypt nothing can take place without a very bold green light coming from the top of the pyramid and we highly commend the government sup-port,” said Meital.

Inside ZBAMAs Meital recounted in the

recently published Jewish Quarterly Review article, “A Thousand-Year-Old Biblical Manuscript Rediscovered in Cairo: The Future of the Egyp-tian Jewish Past,” the discov-ery left the historian “over-whelmed.”

“It would be difficult to re-main indifferent to the beau-ty of this manuscript,” wrote Meital.

In a stroke of scholarly luck, the colophon, or book’s im-print, includes the name of the scribe, Zechariah Ben ‘Anan, and the person who commis-sioned it, as well as its date of completion. These are rare and important details, emphasized historian Meital, and show the provenance of the work, as well as the wealth and philan-

thropy of the family who pre-sumably donated the text to the local synagogue for com-munal study.

Based on notes left by Ben ‘Anan, we know it was com-pleted in the Jewish year 4788, which corresponds to the Gre-gorian year 1028. (Interesting-ly, when the manuscript was examined almost 900 years later, a scholar, writing in pen-cil, made the calculation of how old it was based on his Jewish year back in 1927.) Ac-cording to Ben ‘Anan’s notes, we also see his computations of how many verses he wrote, and that it was once part of a complete Hebrew Bible — the other two sections of which are gone without a trace.

The manuscript Meital found not only holds the complete Writings, but also another 12 pages of mesorah, or commen-tary on the biblical text, in-cluding notes on the trope, or tune in which it is to be read, and nikud, or vowel and con-sonantal vocalization of the words. This system of little dots and lines overlaid on the biblical text indicates how the ancient Hebrew words should sound (Hebrew is written with-out vowels). The system was established by a group of Jew-ish scholars living in Tiberias near the Sea of Galilee circa 750-950 CE.

“Everything that has to do with grammar and punctua-tion of ancient Hebrew is based on this school,” said Meital. “When they developed a sys-tem of writing and created a school for how to correctly read the Bible, it was a dramat-ic shift because since then, our Bible was born and developed.”

The Cairo manuscript, writ-ten just after the writing sys-tem’s codification, is one of the earliest known examples of the Tiberias school, which trained famous scribes in the 9-11th centuries, including Ben ‘Anan.

The biblical text itself is written in block letters in red-dish-brown ink, whereas the mesorah was inked in black. At some point in its history, most likely circa 1930, it was bound in red paper. Each 36 centime-ter x 30 centimeter (14 inch x 12 inch) page includes the vocalized biblical text, trope, and mesorah, which are most-ly arranged in three columns of 18 rows. In the Psalms and other poetry, the arrangement shifts to two columns. Here and there are corrections to the text, which are done by another scribe, either through scraping off the original lines from the parchment and redo-ing them, or through parch-ment patches with the correct wording.

There is some divergence in the ZBAM Writings from what

is standard in Hebrew Bibles today. The Book of Chroni-cles appears as one continu-ous book, rather than two sec-tions, and the book leads the Writings instead of concluding them. Likewise, the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah are joined as one account.

Towards Future Conservation of the Jewish Past

The ZBAM was venerated by the once flourishing Karaite community for hundreds of years. The Karaite reject the Oral Torah’s layers of interpre-tation, which they believe re-moves the worshiper from the biblical text.

Despite historically wretched storage conditions, only a few dozen pages are damaged. Prior to its dusty shelf in the Moussa Der’i Synagogue the ZBAM was housed with other (now miss-ing) precious manuscripts and Torah scrolls at the Dar Simcha Synagogue until 1967. In both synagogues, it was considered holy and used as an amulet of sorts by the congregations.

The congregations, said Meit-al, “crowned this text with be-liefs that made this text kind of holy. They used to use it for for study as well as asking blessings.”

Scholar Gottheil, outraged, described the storage condi-tions that he witnessed in 1905:

“In the worst possible state are the manuscripts kept in the Ark and in the two side-cupboards of the Karaite Synagogue at Cairo. The only one that is pre-served with a little care is the Codex of Moses ben Asher. A wooden box with a glass cover has been provided; into this the pages of the MS. have been stuffed: the word is no exag-geration; the box is not large enough, and the pages must be fitted to its size!”

Since its discovery, the man-uscript has been stored at an undisclosed “safe location.” The next step, said Meital, is to turn a two-story building at Cai-ro’s central Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue compound into a library for Jewish heritage. He hopes that the Drop of Milk or-ganization will be able to find enough funding to complete a necessary renovation and cli-mate control modernization of the building to open the library by summer 2020.

“We intend to take this space, to renovate it, and to open a library that will have two col-lections — one is something like 10,000-12,000 volumes that we already collected in Cairo and the second floor will be devoted to rare documents and manuscripts,” said Meital.

“The jewel in the crown is the Ben ‘Anan manuscript,” he said. b

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Psalm 1 from the Zechariah Ben ‘Anan Codex, rediscovered in 2017 by Israeli scholar Prof. Yoram Meital in a Cairo synagogue. (Yoram Meital)

Ben-Gurion University history Prof. Yoram Meital (Etty Lassman)


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THURSDAY, MARCH 12Silvana Bacman On Jewish Senior Life, at Temple Beth El, 1 p.m. All Jewish Seniors are invited to learn about Jewish life and learning from the very enthusiastic Jewish coordinator, Silvana Bacman. For more information, 732-0865 or [email protected].

FRIDAY, MARCH 13Family Fun Shabbat, at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 5:30 p.m. Ideal for tots to 2nd grade but open to all families. For more information, 244-7060 or [email protected].

Schmoozin Shabbat, at Temple Sinai, 6:45 p.m. Complimentary dinner for guests 21 and over before the 8 p.m. Erev Shabbat service. RSVP required. For more information, 381-6890 or [email protected].

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graduate student at Yeshiva University who has not been on campus since Feb. 27, the university told students and staff on Tuesday, and at least one of his children attends the Modern Orthodox day school SAR Academy in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.

SAR, Westchester Day School and Westchester Torah Acade-my have all closed temporari-ly due to possible coronavirus exposure, and Temple Young Israel in New Rochelle, also in Westchester, is being required to halt its services immediately. The state is requiring self-quar-antine for congregants and those who have attended recent

events at the synagogue.In Orthodox communities,

men are required by Jewish law to pray with a quorum of at least 10 men three times daily, so synagogues typically offer several daily services during the week in addition to Shabbat and holiday services.

Wednesday morning, Yeshiva University president Ari Ber-man informed the YU com-munity that the quarantined YU undergraduate student had tested positive for COVID-19. All classes at the Wilf Campus in Washington Heights were canceled for the day, including graduate courses and the boys’ high school. b

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SATURDAY, MARCH 14Tanach Study, at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 8 a.m. See March 7.

Torah Study, at Temple Sinai, 9:15 a.m. More information, 381-6890

Chevra Torah Study, at Temple Emanu-El, 10 a.m. See March 7.

SUNDAY, MARCH 15Richard W. Briskin Cantor-In-Residence, at Temple Beth El, 2 p.m. Cantorial student, Daniella Ris-man will present a musical concert of Cantorial, Hebrew and contemporary music. She was selected as the 2020 recipient of the Richard W. Briskin Cantor-in-Residence Award. She will be accompanied by noted pianist Alla Kuznetsov. For more information, 473-1770 or visit tberochester.org.

Anti-Semitism Study Group, at Temple Emanu-El, 2 p.m. Rabbi Drorah Setel will lead reading and discussing a range of articles to explore questions such as whether the nature of anti-Semitism has changed over time, how it relates to other forms of oppression and the role it plays in discussions of Zionism and Israel. 266-1978 ext 1 or [email protected].

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partment of Education Super-intendent Tony Thurmond and State Board of Education pres-ident Dr. Linda Darling-Ham-mond, the groups raise concern over a recent decision that will exclude many California eth-nic minority groups from the Ethnic Studies Model Curric-ulum (ESMC) currently being developed.

“A curriculum based on a narrowly focused and polit-icized approach consciously and erroneously divides Cali-fornians into ‘people of color,’ on the one hand, and all other supposedly ethnic and non-eth-nic whites, on the other,” wrote the groups. “Such exclusion is inconsistent with AB 2016, the assurances made after the release of the unacceptable first draft of the ESMC, and is con-trary to California and federal law.”

Referring to Assembly Bill 2016, the groups added that: “California legislators envi-sioned a multi-cultural ap-proach to ethnic studies in which the focus is for students to gain a deeper understanding of American society and its diverse ethnic composition and to develop respect for cultural diversity in our pluralistic so-ciety.”

The organizations behind the letter include: the American Jewish Committee, American Hellenic Council, Faith and Community Empowerment, Armenian National Commit-tee of America, Hindu Amer-ican Foundation, Armenian Assembly of America, Korean American Coalition, the Assyr-ian American Association of Southern California and Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa.

On Jan. 24, California’s De-partment of Education an-

nounced that it would proceed to develop the ESMC on the basis of four “foundational” groups: African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Chicano/Latino and Native American.

“Ethnic studies as a whole should represent a broad range of topics, but it must devote a special emphasis to people of color, including their experienc-es and their important role in our state and national history,” wrote Thurmond in a press re-lease on the meeting.

In August 2019, Jewish and pro-Israel groups widely con-demned an ethnic-studies cur-riculum proposal for its “blatant bias against Israel,” including sections discussing the boycott of the Jewish state, as well as usage of classic anti-Semitic tropes.

In response to outrage at the draft, Newsom apologized to the state’s Jewish community, and promised the it “will never see the light of day” and be substantially amended.

American Jewish Committee Los Angeles director Richard S. Hirschhaut and Northern Cal-ifornia director Rabbi Serena Eisenberg told JNS that, along with their partners, they are urging California to adopt “a fully inclusive, multicultural curriculum” that would align with Newsom’s vision of a “Cal-ifornia for All.”

“We support the focus of a model curriculum that em-powers students from ethnic communities of color that have experienced systematic oppres-sion,” they said. “But we also believe that California students will benefit from a curriculum that addresses all forms of dis-crimination and reflects the broad range of ethnic groups that have contributed to Cali-fornia’s cultural diversity.” b

Curriculum (Continued from Page 1)For the 3,500 Teens at the Annual BBYO Convention,

The World Needs Their Help

by JAMES RUSSELLDALLAS (JNS) — Seven-

teen-year-old Swedish cl i-mate-change activist Greta Thunberg was not at BBYO’s In-ternational Convention here last week, but when her name was mentioned, throngs of teenag-ers applauded and screamed as if she was.

That’s because climate-change activism was as much of a theme of the four-day conference as the official one “Tomorrow Happens Here.”

Avi Garbow, environmental advocate for the sportswear line Patagonia who received the an-nual STAND UP Award on be-half of the company, said Greta may be a rock star to them, but there are more just like her.

“You are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to do any-thing about it. Before Greta there were others, and after Greta there will be others,” he told the crowd of nearly 3,500 teenagers.

Organizers estimate drew the convention drew a 5,500 people from 45 countries, including Cuba and Norway, for leader-ship-building workshops, com-munity-service projects, meet-ing fellow activists and even to play the latest video games on cutting-edge technology.

During that period, they heard from a roster of renowned ac-tivists, journalists, celebrities and, in one somber moment, watched Holocaust survivors embrace for the first time liber-ation soldiers.

Themes and issues change every year, which the organi-zation’s staff remains aware of, said CEO Matt Grossman. “This generation has lived through an era of school shootings,” he said, noting that the conven-tion was held in Orlando, Fla., only a few days after the two-year anniversary of the deadly shooting at Marjorie Stoneman High School in Parkland, out-side Miami. That year, the issue became safe schools, resulting in a global initiative related to school safety.

But climate change, he said, “is the issue of the time.”

‘We Have a Voice’Claudia Sachs of eastern Vir-

ginia has been involved with climate-change activism, par-ticipating in school strikes, a worldwide series of strikes and walkouts advocated by Thun-berg in 2019. Students walked out of school, demanding po-litical movement on combating climate change.

“We have to ensure that our only home is safe for future

generations. This has become a very personal passion for me, like it has for so many of us,” she said.

Her passion led her to steer the BBYO Climate Crisis Task Force, which will soon join the International Leadership Net-work, an alliance of organiza-tions for youth. The member-ship, she noted, “will position BBYO on the forefront of com-bating global change.”

Andrew Goldberg, publicist for his BBYO’s Connecticut Val-ley Region chapter, is energized by the chance to expand BBYO’s already broad set of issues.

“In a society plagued by an onslaught of issues across a wide spectrum, the environ-ment is one area that failure will wreak havoc on. If we fail to take action, the future gen-erations of all species will be faced with a threat to their sur-vival,” he said. “In BBYO, we are granted the opportunity — time and time again — to collaborate with one another, debate vital issues we face and seek solutions. BBYO is there to remind us that we have a voice, and that our voices matter — not just to each other, but to everyone in the world in which we live.”

Sachs and Goldberg’s will-

The Israeli delegation leads attendees in singing Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, at BBYO International Con-vention in Dallas, Feburary 2020. (Jason Dixson Photography)

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natural partner, Labor-Gesh-er-Meretz alliance, likely won a mere seven seats, leaving no path for Blue and White leader Benny Gantz to form a coalition.

Likud Tour ism Minister Yariv Levin told JNS that “this is a festive day for the Israeli right-wing. In the face of con-stant bashing and shaming from the other side, the people have spoken. They have ex-pressed their love for Netanya-

hu and rejected the hate.”Levin acknowledged that “we

have a lot of work in front of us for the nation and the state.”

Knesset member Sharren Haskel of the Likud echoed Levin’s celebratory words, telling JNS that “this was a great achievement for the Likud. We are still waiting for the final results, but we look forward to creating a govern-ment to advance the Likud agenda on security, diplomacy

and the economy.”Blue and White Knesset mem-

ber and former Likud Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, howev-er, took issue with the euphoria in the Likud camp. He told JNS that “the indicted Netanyahu still cannot form a coalition of 61. We established Blue and White in order to set Israel back on the right track according to the values which we believe in, and we will continue to work hard to do so even if the path is long.”

Gantz himself spoke to a low-key small crowd of Blue and White activists and told them that “the results could be ex-actly the same in the political sense as they were a year ago; then we remained strong, unit-ed and committed to our path, and I tell you we will again remain strong, united and loyal to our path because it is the correct one.”

He was referring to the April 9 election results that had Ne-tanyahu’s bloc with 60 seats and no path to get to 61. The difference this time, however, is the large number of seats that Likud won, in addition to the significant gap between Likud’s mandates and those of Blue and White, as opposed to the 35-35 tie back in April.

Netanyahu’s bloc is set to in-clude the ultra-Orthodox par-ties, which did well, with exit polls showing Shas winning 10 seats and United Torah Judaism with seven seats. Shas Knesset member Yaakov Margi told JNS that the election was “a victory for Shas, which ran a clean and dignified campaign, and was not negative against other parties. This approach worked. Those who ran negative cam-paigns were not successful. The bottom line is that a majority of Israel wants a right-government and a country that is Jewish in nature.”

The right-wing bloc will also include Yamina, which won six seats. Yamina leader and current Defense Minister Naf-tali Bennett declared that “with God’s help, a government that will establish Israeli sovereign-ty [over the West Bank] has been established.”

Yamina’s Knesset members have made it clear that they intend to urge Netanyahu to move forward with a strong right-wing security and diplo-matic agenda.

Joint Arab List: ‘We did our part. They failed.’

Aside from Likud’s strong showing, the Joint Arab List also came away with solid re-sults, likely winning 15 seats.

Knesset member Ahman Tibi of the Joint List called this “a major success” and referred to it as their “biggest election suc-cess in decades.” At the same time, he said that the country is now facing “a dark future” with Netanyahu continuing at

the helm.Joint List leader Ayman Odeh

praised his party’s showing, and went on to blame Blue and White for not toppling Netanya-hu. “We did our part. They failed,” he said.

Labor and Meretz, two left-wing parties that ran togeth-er, won a disappointing seven seats. Labor Party chairman Amir Peretz blamed Blue and White for focusing on taking away their voters during the last few days of the campaign, referring to their tactic as “can-nibalism.”

At the same time, Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu Party also likely won seven seats. While Lieberman is right-wing on security issues, which would seem to make him the natural partner to join with Netanyahu and establish a government, he continues to refuse to do so as he has done in the previous election rounds.

“We won’t move a millimeter from what we promised our voters,” Lieberman told his sup-porters, making it clear that he won’t join a Netanyahu-led government that includes the ultra-Orthodox parties, which he disagrees with on matters of religion and state.

Judicial Matters Could Complicate Coalition-Building

Now Netanyahu must find a way to bring at least two more Knesset members from other parties to join his coali-tion. Some Knesset members in Blue and White are suggesting

that the party should join a Netanyahu-led unity govern-ment, and some more right-wing Blue and White Knesset members have been talking about joining the right-wing/religious coalition. Another possible defector is Knesset member Orly Levy-Abekasis, who heads the Gesher faction of the Labor-Gesher-Meretz alliance.

Netanyahu faces another hurdle on the way towards forming a government: the Is-raeli judicial system. While half of the country has clearly stated that they want him to continue to serve in the top job despite the fact that he goes on trial March 17 for brib-ery, fraud and breach of trust charges, there has already been an appeal to the Supreme Court to stop him from being given the mandate to form a government.

The court refused to hear arguments and issue a ruling on this issue in January, when such an appeal was made, say-ing it was premature at that time. Now the issue will be raised. While Israeli law allows a prime minister to continue serving while under indictment, it is less clear about whether a candidate can be given the task of trying to form a government while facing a trial.

Final results may not be an-nounced until next Monday, as extra precautions were put into place to prevent fraud and to assure the counting a few thousand votes from Israelis currently in quarantine because of the coronavirus. b

Head of the Blue White Party Benny Gantz at party headquarters in Tel Aviv on election night, March 2. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Head of the Joint Arab List Ayman Odeh speaks to the media outside his home in Haifa a day after the Israeli general elections, March 3. (Flash90)

Israeli Minister of Defense and leader of the Yamina Party Naftali Bennett with Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich at Yamina Party headquarters in Ramat Gan on election night, March 2. (Flash90)

Israel Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman at party headquarters in Modi’in on election night, March 2. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90

Have Spoken (Continued from Page 1)

radio message on Dec. 24, 1942, according to AFP.

Without naming Jews spe-cifically, Pius referred to “hun-dreds of thousands of people who, without any fault of their

own and sometimes for the sole reason of their nationality or race, were doomed to death or gradual extermination.”

The decision to open the archive was announced a year ago. b

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we are interested in widen-ing cooperation in defense and the transfer of technology.” He added that Israel is one of the few “states that supported in Azerbaijan in need with arma-ments.”

Sharifov also read remarks from Mehriban Aliyeva, the first vice president of Azerbai-jan, who said, “It is gratifying that our former compatriots of Jewish origin, living nowadays in the United States and Israel, have maintained close ties with Azerbaijan and contribute to the strengthening of our rela-tions with these countries. We are much grateful to them.”

Recorded history shows that

Jews have lived in Azerbaijan for 2,600 years, with an esti-mated 30,000 Jews currently living in a country of 10 mil-lion, according to Sharifov.

In her remarks, Aliyeva dis-cussed the nation’s Jewish his-tory, noting that, “Azerbaijan had also embraced thousands of Jews who tried to escape Nazi oppression during World War II and became a second home for them.”

She added that “at the time of the Azerbaijan Democratic Re-public of 1918-1920 — the first parliamentary democracy in the Muslim world — the Jewish com-munity actively contributed to the development of the country.” b

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Chief Rabbi: Don’t Kiss Mezuzahs Due

To Coronavirus

by KOBI NACHSHONI and ITAMAR EICHNER

Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau called on the public on Wednes-day to refrain from kissing or touching mezuzahs, due to the spread of the coronavirus.

“During these days, when we are witness to the spread of a serious disease, there is no doubt that one should not kiss the me-zuzah or touch it at all,” said Lau.

In an advisory published in the Israeli media on Wednesday, the chief rabbi said there was no religious obligation to observe the practice, and it was enough for Jews to reflect on the scroll’s message when entering or leav-ing a home.

The handwritten parchment contains the Biblical “Shema” prayer verse that declares: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.”

“When people became aware of the hygienical risk involved, even as back as the 19th centu-ry, other rabbis proclaimed that there is an inherent danger in the practice; among them my teacher, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach,” said Lau.

As a general rule, the rabbi wrote, there is a religious com-mandment to obey the instruc-

tions of the authorities, empha-sizing: “It is imperative to follow the instructions of public health officials.”

Meanwhile, the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) released new instructions to its flocks in the continent to refrain from kiss-ing mezuzahs, other people and Torah and prayer books.

CER President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt put out a document with the new precautions to the organization’s 700 religious lead-ers.

“We have consulted with infec-tious diseases and public health experts to formulate new precau-tions for synagogues under our jurisdiction,” said Goldschmidt.

The CER’s instructions order rabbis and other religious leaders to keep disinfectants in public places, such as the entrance to synagogues, schools, halls, etc., and make sure soap is accessi-ble at hand-washing stations. If someone is in solitary confine-ment — don’t visit him or her un-less you use protective measures.

“We pray for all those who are battling the disease and hope that God will cure them and the scientists will reach a vaccine soon,” said Goldschmidt. b

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rather than actual espionage or industrial theft.

“This is a new front,” said Kei Koizumi, a science consul-tant and White House science and technology adviser in the Obama administration.

“This wake-up call is far louder because of who this person is, his ethnicity and the institution for which he works.

“Now it affects everyone,” Koizumi added, “not just Chi-nese or other Asians like my-self.”

But the Trump administra-tion’s hardening stance is also calling into question the cost to American competitiveness if cowed researchers stop collab-orating with top foreign talent, especially Chinese students and scientists.

“They don’t want to be the next headline,” said Toby Smith, the American Associa-tion of Universities’ policy di-rector. “This could have a real chilling effect.”

Andrew Lelling, US attorney for the Massachusetts district, who brought the case against Lieber, said in an interview that the Justice Department did not go looking for this case. “We don’t pick the person, we pick their conduct,” he said.

The Lieber case has turned heads in part because of the huge sums China is willing to spend to attract top American talent.

According to the criminal indictment, Lieber received $50,000 a month in salary, up to $158,000 in annual expens-es and more than $1.5 million to start a research lab at the Wuhan University of Technol-ogy.

This was reportedly arranged through Beijing’s Thousand Ta lents Plan, which was launched in 2008 to recruit foreign scientists.

“It’s enough to catch my at-tention, and everyone else’s,” said Koizumi. “You could say you misplaced a $5,000 trav-el budget to Beijing. But no one misplaces an entire lab in Wuhan.”

Universit ies’ inadequate disclosure of foreign gifts by universities appears more a result of lax reporting than willful subterfuge, analysts said. But the evidence strongly suggests that Lieber, who has published more than 340 pa-pers in peer-reviewed journals, knowingly hid his China links and funding, said Lelling.

According to the indictment, he received half the money in US currency and kept the rest offshore in a Chinese bank account. “We will help you change the cash for you when you come to Wuhan,” his Wuhan liaison wrote in 2017, the indictment says.

It further claims that Lieb-er denied to Harvard in 2018 and subsequently to the De-fence Department that he had

worked with Beijing as a “stra-tegic scientist” since 2012. The denial was relayed to the Na-tional Institutes of Health, or NIH, which funds $39 billion in American research annually.

“I lost a lot of sleep worry-ing about all these things last night,” Lieber wrote to a re-search associate in 2018, the charging document says. “I will be careful about what I discuss with Harvard Univer-sity, and none of this will be shared with government inves-tigators.”

Around the same time, he received $15 million in NIH and Defence Department fund-ing, it added.

Lieber’s expertise in nano-technology, the manipulation of molecules, promises to revo-lutionize energy consumption, manufacturing and green tech-nologies, potentially touching many strategic sectors of Bei-jing’s “Made in China 2025” blueprint to upgrade its econ-omy.

He has been charged with one felony count of making false statements to US govern-ment agencies and faces up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. He has not yet entered a plea and is free after posting bail of $1 million.

Lieber could not be reached, and his lawyers did not re-spond to a request for com-ment. The Wuhan University of Technology also did not reply; its website says “no content” under a “Foreign Expert Re-cruitment” heading.

Academics and legal experts acknowledge the growing threat from China and admit they need more safeguards to avoid becoming a pawn in Bei-jing’s hands.

But turning universities into fortresses and jealously guard-ing basic research is coun-terproductive, threatening to undermine the economic lead-ership and innovation Wash-ington seeks, they argue.

Academics also point to prob-lems with US science.

The lure of doing cut-ting-edge, well-funded, basic research abroad without all the bureaucracy, while hardly an excuse, is attractive. This is especially true as the NIH and other funders shy away from high-risk, high-reward projects, some critics add.

“We’re hearing a lot of com-plaints from US researchers that few percentages of grants get funded,” said Ali Nouri, president of the Federation of American Scientists. “But China also needs to play by the rules.”

Others see Justice Depart-ment overreach, both in its focus on ethnically Asian sci-entists and in going after re-porting violations without evi-dence of any secrets theft.

“You’re prosecuting a Har-

vard professor who incorrectly filled out a form without look-ing if there was actual tech-nology transfer,” said Peter Zeidenberg, a partner with Arent Fox and a former federal prosecutor. “It’s taking a nucle-ar bomb to a situation that just doesn’t deserve it.”

Zeidenberg, and others, say most cases can be handled without public shaming and harsh prosecutions. A presti-gious National Science Foun-dation study released in De-cember concurs, finding that many foreign influence issues “can be addressed within the framework of research integ-rity” without walling off core areas of science.

The NIH acknowledged in an email that funding applications can be burdensome but denied that the US punishes research-ers for “honest mistakes.”

“When a grant application misrepresents, fabricates or falsifies information or data, it could be considered a serious violation,” it added.

Lelling put it more bluntly: “You can take money from the Chinese. But you can’t lie about it. If you lie, and it’s in the NIH grant-making process, it’s a crime.”

FBI agents are investigating an estimated 1,000 China-re-lated cases from its 56 field offices, said FBI Director Chris-topher Wray. Law enforcement authorities have arrested 19 people in such cases since Oc-tober, compared with 24 the previous year.

Lelling denied any adminis-trative bias in choosing which China-related cases to inves-tigate and prosecute. Investi-gating Lieber’s many Chinese students without a specific cause, for example, would be problematic, he said.

“This isn’t racial profiling,” the US attorney said. “You have a rival nation-state made up almost 100 percent of Han Chinese. Unfortunately, there’s going to be tremendous over-lap. We’re looking for the con-duct, then the person.”

The Justice Department is cognizant of the resistance it has faced over cases under its aggressive China Initiative, which began in 2018, Lelling said. And its very detailed 17-page indictment of Lieber is a conscious response to this skepticism, he said.

It is doing more outreach and hopes universities will volun-tarily report suspicious cir-cumstances linked to Beijing, Lelling said.

Koizumi, who spent years in Sino-US negotiations at the White House, said he expect-ed Beijing to shift tactics and recruitment methods given all the attention on its for-eign talent programs, adding: “They’ve always been pretty adaptable.” b

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ingness to confront with confi-dence a complex issue involving the scientific, political, govern-mental and other communities is the core of the BBYO experi-ence, said CEO Matt Grossman.

“The workshops are rooted in confidence and growth of young people; the program-ming is tied to social issues. Groups serving Jewish teens are progressive, but the mean-ing of inclusivity has expand-ed. We explore this with teens, all in a safe environment,” he said.

Each presentation is present-ed in a way to stimulate curi-osity. The plenaries — a cross between a TED talk and a con-cert — use digital graphics, sound and theatrical devices to amplify the voices of ac-tivists, who included Cornell Brooks, director of the Social Justice Collaborative at Harvard University and former CEO of the NAACP; Zach Barack, a transgender actor; and Sakena Yacoobi, CEO of Afghan Insti-tute of Learning.

“That roster is telling of what we’ve become,” said Grossman, noting the diversity of speakers.

‘Engaging With Other Teenage Activists’

In the past five years, the programming has become more globally focused, too. The planning committee is made up of 300 teenagers, not all of whom speak the same lan-guage. To organize across time zones, they had to creatively use smartphone applications like WhatsApp, which offers translation services. Working across time zones required keen awareness of customs, traditions and the time of day that could best work for the large committee.

Emily Kolodney of Austin en-joyed the challenge. Granted, she could not avoid the respon-sibility. She is the 75th Anita M. Perlman International N’siah of BBYO’s B’nai B’rith Girls soror-ity, a leader during a milestone year for the organization. She serves alongside Ethan Golde, the 95th Grand Aleph Godol of the boys’ fraternity Aleph Zadik Aleph. The duo is responsible for working with the organiza-tion’s 730 chapters in 53 coun-tries, and also collaborates with chapter and council operations.

“But they’re still teenagers,” noted Debbie Shemony, vice president for marketing and communications. And along-side civil-rights figures and journalists are celebrities and YouTube stars, who have be-come increasingly popular among this demographic.

Adding they don’t bring in just any YouTube star, Shem-ony said “we see they really like engaging with other teen-age activists who also have big dreams.”

The programming is also more inclusive than in years’

past, with country-specific meet-ups, and, in the case of this year, Russian and Spanish speakers, and specific work-shops, said Grossman.

As part of the 75th anniver-sary recognizing the sorority, numerous programs celebrated women’s local and global im-pact. Breakout sessions focused on women’s leadership, gender equality and women’s rights in the 21st century.

The convention is also an opportunity for allied groups to recruit participants in their programs.

Miri Kornfeld is director of high school programs with StandWithUs, a Los Ange-les-based, pro-Israel education nonprofit dedicated to teach-

ing students, teachers and par-ents about the Jewish state, as well as fighting anti-Semitism. The organization has a major presence at the international convention And like BBYO, StandWithUs offers leadership development and teenage-fo-cused programming, but using Israel as a case study.

“BBYO is a natural part of our teen leadership work. Both organizations’ programming streams together,” she said.

Last year, they reached 90,000 students, including through BBYO’s annual con-vention, through presentations and educating the masses. “But from there we get our passion-ate students, including some of whom are interning with them

this year,” she said.Every year about 20 BBYO

participants intern with Stand-WithUs.

The kids she finds from BBYO are passionate and Zionist — the sort of leaders they cultivate.

A 2011 BBYO Impact Study funded by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Founda-tion found that alumni are more likely to engage in leadership roles as adults because of their emphasis on education, train-ing and community-building.

“The great thing about teen-agers is they are better than older generations,” said Gross-man. “They can argue differ-ent perspectives then play with each other later.”

They can also march in streets.

“In Germany, I participate in the international Fridays for future strikes, which is a grass-roots movement about environ-mental justice. Like BBYO, it gives teens like me a platform to raise our voices which would otherwise be unheard with-out the power of unity,” Naomi Tamir of Germany. “Under tik-kun olam, we are able to run programs at our chapters or on regional level that work on the issues our community, city, country and the entire world faces, like climate change. Al-though right now we aren’t eligible to vote, we have already built up the movement of BBYO, and it shows us that we can be — and we are — strong enough for change.” b

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Translator Accused of Revealing U.S. Secrets Amid Tensions With Iranby ADAM GOLDMAN

And JULIAN E. BARNESWASHINGTON — A Minne-

sota woman who worked as a translator for the military in Iraq was charged on Wednesday with providing highly classified infor-mation to an Iran-backed militia group. Prosecutors said she inten-sified her espionage as tensions between the United States and Iran increased in recent months.

Prosecutors said the contrac-tor, Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, revealed to a Lebanese man with ties to Hezbollah the names of foreign informants and details of the information they provided to the United States. The identities of such informants are among the government’s most closely held secrets, and law enforcement offi-cials said Thompson endangered the lives of the sources as well as those of military personnel.

The officials suggested that the potential loss of classified infor-mation was grave and that the prosecution was one of the most serious recent counterintelligence cases they had seen. Several top national security prosecutors as well as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Timo-thy Shea, appeared in court on Wednesday as Thompson made an initial appearance before a

judge, demonstrating the impor-tance of the case.

“If true, this conduct is a dis-grace, especially for someone serving as a contractor with the United States military,” John C. Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement. “This betrayal of country and colleagues will be punished.”

The recruitment of a mili-tary contractor with access to such important secrets shows the strength of the intelligence operations of Iran and its proxy forces. American officials have long warned that Tehran’s in-telligence work should not be underestimated.

In interviews with the F.B.I., Thompson admitted to investiga-tors that she illegally shared clas-sified information with the Leb-anese official, according to court papers. Thompson appeared in court dressed in a red cardigan, her gray-streaked hair in a bun, but was not shackled. The judge ordered her held until a detention hearing on March 11.

She faces three charges of vio-lating espionage laws. Under the statute, she could face up to life in prison and possibly the death penalty if the information she revealed led to the death of any

of the informants.Thompson was living in Erbil,

Iraq, working on contract as a linguist. As tensions between the United States and Iran in-creased in the final days of De-cember, investigators discovered, Thompson’s activity on classified systems did as well. For the next six weeks, she accessed secret government files that contained the true names and photographs of American intelligence sourc-es and government cables that outlined the information they provided to their handlers.

Thompson’s purported espi-onage was discovered Dec. 30, days after American airstrikes on Hezbollah’s Iraqi arm and shortly before the killing of Maj. Gen. Qa-ssim Suleimani of Iran in a Jan. 3 drone attack that was a serious escalation of President Trump’s growing confrontation with Iran.

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12,000 Nazis Lived in Argentina in 1930s With Swiss Bank Accounts, Newly Discovered Documents Show

by LUCIA I. SUAREZ SANGA newly discovered cache of

documents appears to identify more than 12,000 Nazis who lived in Argentina in the 1930s and who had one or more bank accounts at what is now Credit Suisse bank.

The U.S.-based Simon Wiesen-thal Center, which is famous for tracking down Nazis, said the files were found in a storeroom at a former Nazi headquarter in Buenos Aires.

In 1935, the German Nazi gov-ernment began seizing Jewish property after enacting its an-ti-Semitic laws. The looting con-tinued well into the Holocaust in the 1940s.

According to the center, much of the monies were transferred

to secret Swiss bank accounts, including the former Schweizeri-sche Kreditanstalt, which became the Credit Suisse bank, based in Zurich. They believe some of these bank accounts may be among those listed in the newly discovered files in Argentina.

“We bel ieve that t hese long-dormant accounts hold monies looted from Jewish vic-tims,” the center said in a state-ment released this week.

During the 1930s, Argentina’s former leaders — President Jose Felix Uriburu, who was nick-named “Von Pepe,” and his suc-cessor, Agustin Pedro Justo, wel-comed Nazis and their ideals.

While anti-Nazi President Rob-ert Ortiz attempted to weed out Nazis from the country after ris-

ing to power in 1938, there were already thousands of Nazis living in Argentina.

According to the Wiesenthal Center, the NSDAP/AO — or Ger-man National Socialist Party/Foreign Organization — officially had 1,400 members and upwards of 12,000 supporting members from other pro-Nazi groups and organizations.

“These included such German companies as IG Farben (the supplier of Zyklon-B gas, used to exterminate Jews and other victims of Nazism) and finan-cial bodies such as the ‘Banco Alemán Transatlántico’ and the ‘Banco Germánico de América del Sur.’ These two banks appar-ently served for Nazi transfers on the way to Switzerland,” ex-plained Shimon Samuels, director for international relations at the Wiesenthal Center.

According to the center, a spe-cial commission established by Ortiz raises the so-called Nazi Union Alemana de Gremios or German Union of Syndicates, which had many of the names of Nazi supporters in the country.

A military coup in 1943 put a pro-Nazi regime in power in Buenos Aires, which ordered the commission’s findings burned.

An Argentinian investigator, Pedro Filipuzzi, found an origi-nal copy listing the 12,000 Nazis hidden in an old storage room

in the former Buenos Aires Nazi headquarters.

The Wiesenthal Center has asked Credit Suisse to identify the dormant bank accounts, say-ing in a letter: “We believe it is very probable that these dormant accounts hold monies looted from Jewish victims, under the Nuremberg Aryanization laws of the 1930s.”

They added: “We are aware that you already have claimants as alleged heirs of Nazis in the list.”

In a statement to AFP, the bank said it had previously cooperated with the 1997-1999 commission chaired by Paul A. Volcker that investigated Credit Suisse and 60 other Swiss banks with the aim of identifying accounts that may or may have belonged to victims of Nazi persecution.

“We will, however, look into

this matter,” it added.During World War II and the

years that followed, Argenti-na and other South American countries famously became save havens for Nazis, because they were run by fascist military dic-tators.

Some of the most-wanted Nazi war criminals escaped to South America, including Adolf Eich-mann, a key organizer of the Ho-locaust, and Dr. Josef Mengele, known as “Doctor Death,” who carried out sick experiments on Auschwitz inmates. They fled to Argentina and Brazil, respectively.

Eichman was captured and hanged by Israel for his crimes in 1961, but Mengele avoided cap-ture. He died when he drowned while swimming off the coast of Brazil in 1979. b

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Did Israel Assassinate a Senior Hezbollah Member?

An Israeli drone assassinated a senior Hezbollah operative on Thursday, Arab media reported.

According to the reports, the official is Imad at-Tawil.

The Jordan-based outlet Al-Hadath reported that Tawil was in charge of creating an Iranian-backed terrorist net-work on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, presumably in order to make that area a theater of operation against Israel.

Hezbollah has been involved in Syrian civil war for the past several years. Israel has warned Hezbollah it would not let the Shiite terrorist group build

bases and networks in Syria that would be used as a stag-ing ground for attacks against Israel.

According to the Syrian Ob-servatory for Human Rights, the at-Tawil was killed after his car was hit from the air. Russian media said witnesses on the ground saw intense activity by Israeli aircraft nearby.

Earlier this week the Israeli Air Force hit targets associat-ed with the Palestinian Islam-ic Jihad terrorist organization near Damascus. The PIJ said two of its operatives were killed in the strike. b

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Smoke plumes rising from reported Syrian and Russian air strikes across the border in Syria’s southeastern Quneitra province. (AFP/Jalaa Marey)

US State Department Approves Possible Aircraft,

Equipment Sale to Israel

(JNS) — The U.S. State De-partment announced on Tues-day that it has approved a pos-sible sale of up to eight KC-46 aircraft and related equipment to Israel as part of a process towards finalizing a military acquisition.

The sale, which Congress was notified about on Tuesday, as required by law, is valued at around $2.4 billion. Congress has 15 days to consider the Is-raeli request.

If Congress takes no action, the State Department would sit down with Israel to work out a contract, followed by approval or rejection by the U.S. Depart-ment of Defense.

In addition to the aircraft,

other materials that could be sold to Israel in this deal are AN/ARC-210 U/VHF radios, APX-119 Identification Friend or Foe transponders, initial spares and repair parts, consumables, support equipment, technical data, engineering change pro-posals, publications, Field Ser-vice Representatives (FSRs), repair and return, depot main-tenance, training and training equipment, contractor techni-cal and logistics personnel ser-vices, U.S. government and con-tractor representative support, installation for subsystems, flight test and certification, and other related elements of logis-tics support and training.

“The proposed sale further

supports the foreign policy and national security of the United States by allowing Is-rael to provide a redundant capability to U.S. assets within the region, potentially freeing U.S. assets for use elsewhere during times of war,” stated the U.S. State Department in a statement. “Aerial refueling and strategic airlift are con-sistently cited as significant shortfalls for our allies.”

“In addition, the sale im-proves Israel’s national security posture as a key U.S. ally,” con-tinued the State Department. “Israel will have no difficulty absorbing this equipment into its armed forces.”

The contractors behind the possible sale are Boeing and Raytheon.

Implementat ion of th is proposed sale will require the assignment of two U.S. field-service/contractor repre-sentatives to Israel, according to the State Department. b

A KC-46A Pegasus connects with an F-35 Lightning II in the skies over Cali-fornia on Jan. 22, 2019. (Kenji Thuloweit/U.S. Air Force)

Alan Gross Says Bernie Sanders Praised Cuba During a Prison Visit

by RON KAMPEASWASHINGTON (JTA) — Alan

Gross, who was imprisoned in Cuba for five years for trying to connect its Jewish communi-ty to the internet, said Bernie Sanders praised Cuba during a prison visit.

“He said, quote: ‘I don’t know what’s so wrong with this coun-try,'” Gross, 70, told NPR in a story posted Wednesday.

Gross, who likes Sanders is Jewish, said the Vermont sen-ator — now a leading Demo-cratic presidential nomination — was otherwise unengaged during Gross’s hourlong meet-ing in 2014 with three sen-ators. He was released later that year.

The other two were Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D. Tester and Sanders would not comment to NPR. Someone close to Heit-kamp, who is no longer in the Senate, told NPR that Sanders seemed to disregard the meet-ing and that there was an un-comfortable exchange between Sanders and Gross, although she could not confirm Sanders’ alleged statement.

Sanders has come under fire for his qualified criticism of the Castro regime in a recent CBS “60 Minutes” interview. He called Cuba’s government authoritarian, but also praised its literacy programs and health care for all.

Gross, a strident critic of Pres-ident Donald Trump, told NPR that he opposes Sanders’ bid for the presidency.

“I just think, you know, it was a stupid thing for him to do,” Gross, who splits his time between the United States and Israel, told NPR. “First, how could he not have seen the in-credible deterioration of what was once the grandeur of the pre-Castro era. And two, how could be so insensitive to make that remark to a political hos-tage — me!”

Gross was convicted of crimes against the state for his work as a subcontractor of the U.S. State Department connecting the Jewish community to the internet.

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Passover in the Time of Coronavirus: Cancellations Mount at Kosher Resorts

by BEN HARRISNEW YORK (JTA) — For the

past three years, Esther Possick has avoided the hassle of host-ing Passover at her Long Island home by traveling to kosher hotels in foreign locales.

In 2017, she spent the holi-day at a resort in Stresa, a re-sort town on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy not far from the Swiss border. The follow-ing year she tried out Rimini, a coastal city on the Adriatic. Last year she opted for a pro-gram in Spain.

This year, she was planning to spend the holiday at a sea-front hotel in Milano Maritti-ma, a resort area three hours southeast of Milan, capped off by a weekend in Rome. But in late February, as Milan became the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in Europe, bringing life in Italy’s second most populous city to a halt, Possick started having second thoughts.

On Monday, when Possick’s air carrier announced it was suspending flights to Milan, Possick couldn’t hold out any longer.

“I kept saying, OK, this is going to pass. Something is going to change,” Possick told the Jewish Telegraphic Agen-cy. “But it doesn’t seem to be changing for the better.”

As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, the effects are being felt not only in the public health arena but in business, education and tourism — and a small but significant subset of the Jewish world: Passover vacations.

The eight-day holiday, with its extensive home cleaning preparations and succession of major meals, has emerged as a popular time for getaways. The Passover travel industry has ballooned into a major business, with over 170 pro-grams this year offering kosher meals in nearly every corner of the planet. Jews from Israel, the United States, Europe and elsewhere are willing to pay an often hefty fee to avoid the drudgery and inconvenience of holiday prep.

As of early March, at least three programs — two in Italy and one in Thailand — have been canceled because of the virus. Others are keeping a wary eye on the situation.

“The buzz from consumers has been that they’ve been ner-vous,” said Doni Schwartz, who runs the website PassoverLis-tings.com, an advertising and review platform for the holi-day’s programs. “They’ve put down a lot of money. A lot of them are scrambling for new programs in the U.S.”

Leisure Time Tours, an Amer-ican operator based in New

York, had to cancel its Rome program due to concerns about the coronavirus. The company, which also runs programs in Prague, Florida and New York, was able to transfer some cus-tomers to its other hotels while offering full refunds to the rest, managing director Robert Frucher told JTA.

The Israeli operator Gem Ko-sher canceled its sole Passover program, in Pattaya, Thailand, offering partial refunds to the hundreds of guests who had booked rooms at the Renais-sance Pattaya Resort & Spa, 100 miles south of Bangkok. Owner Aharon Lipner said the cancellation was a big financial hit for his company, but he had no choice.

“I don’t want to put any of my guests at even 0.0 percent, at any risk,” Lipner said. “This virus, it is, let’s say, it’s more than just what people know about. It’s much worse.”

In Italy, the European coun-try worst hit so far by the virus, more than a dozen programs are planned for 2020. Sever-al operators said they remain committed to holding their pro-grams and are keeping a close watch on the situation, but oth-ers have been forced to throw in the towel.

One is Belinda Netzer, who owns My Kosher Hotel in the Dolomite Mountains of north-eastern Italy. The hotel was fully booked throughout the winter ski season through Pass-over, which begins this year on the evening of April 8.

But the vast majority of Netzer’s clients are Israelis, and after Israel’s national air carrier, El Al, announced in late February that it was halting all flights to Italy, the cancellations started rolling in. That forced Netzer to nix the program. However, she is not canceling another program she is hosting in Rimini, Italy.

“I feel I’m living in wartime,” Netzer said. “It’s like a tsunami mixed with an — I don’t know. It’s like a catastrophe. It’s a re-ally terrible feeling.”

Tour operators that decide

to cancel programs typically offer full refunds to their pa-trons. And industry insiders say that even those that have not canceled are often inclined to return what they can, if only to preserve goodwill among their clientele.

Possick said her operator, Koltuv Events, offered a 50 per-cent refund and two years to put the remaining money to-ward a future program. Koltuv owner Itzhak Sakav told JTA that only about 20 people had canceled this year and over 400 people were still planning to attend the company’s two Italy programs.

Toby Schwartz was planning to attend a Koltuv program in Italy, but she has asthma and her mother is elderly, and they decided not to take the risk. The two decided in February to switch to a Passover program in South Carolina.

“Normally if I was planning a vacation, I’d wait a little to see what would happen,” Schwartz said. “But because it’s Passover, you don’t want to get stuck with no plans.”

For operators like Koltuv that run just one or two programs annually, a single bad year can spell disaster. They typically spend the entire year planning for Passover, which between the logistics of delivering ko-sher food to exotic locales and the multiple requirements of traditionally observant Jewish traveler is both complicated and pricey.

Profits are often made only on the last 10 percent to 15 per-cent of rooms booked, meaning even a small drop in partic-ipation can make a world of difference.

“Often in this industry, those final rooms can be the dif-ference between a loss and a profit,” said Raphi Bloom, the co-owner of TotallyJewishTrav-el.com, which claims to be the largest Jewish travel site on the internet. “Running a Pesach program is not cheap for the op-erator. If people are hesitant at this stage, that’s where it could have an effect.” b

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SUNDAY, MARCH 8 P is for Purim, at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 10 a.m. Pancake break-fast and activities. Celebrate 50 years of sesame Street and 2,500 years of Purim.Hamentaschen Baking, at Temple Emanu-El, 11 a.m. No prior experience needed! Free, family-friendly, and open to the com-munity. 266-1978 or [email protected].

MONDAY, MARCH 9Purim Dinner and Carnival, at Temple Sinai, 5 p.m. Purim Ex-travaganza! Pizza/Salad Bar/Dinner and Carnival! Grease Theme!Purim Shpiel and Megillah Reading, at Temple Sinai, 6:30 p.m.Evening Purim Service and Megillah Reading, at Congrega-tion Beth Hamedresh-Beth Israel, 7 p.m. Conducted jointly by Congregation BHBI, Temple Beth Am and Temple Beth David. All are welcome.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10Purim Masquerade, at Light of Israel, 5 p.m. More information, 271-5690Superheroes and Princesses, at Beth Sholom, 5:30 p.m. Gaming truck, bounce house, face painting and more! 473-1625Community Purim Mesibah, at Beth Hakneses Hachodosh, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13Purim Celebration and Community Potluck Dinner, at Temple Emanu-El, 6 p.m. Musical Shabbat Service, Megillah reading, music and entertainment. Free, family-friendly, and open to the community. RSVP with your dish-to-pass by Wednesday, March 11 to 266-1978 or [email protected].

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EFRAT, Israel — “Now you bring near to yourself Aaron your brother and his sons with him…. to minister to Me. You shall make vestments of sanctity for Aaron your broth-er, for honor and splendor” (Exodus 28:1,2)

The two leaders dur ing this interim “desert” period of 40 years were Moses the prophet and Aaron the ko-hen-priest. Moses’s main task was to bring the Word of G–d to instruct the Israelites how to behave with each other as individuals and families and how to interact with the world at large as a nation; Aaron’s main task was to maintain the religious ceremonies and cel-ebrations in the sanctuary in order to serve as the guardian over how the Israelites were to serve their G–d.

From this perspective, there seems to have been a fair-ly clear line of demarcation between affairs of state and affairs of religion. Nonethe-less, because it was G–d who was the Ultimate Architect of every realm of life as well as the Ultimate Source for the laws of their governance, there could never be more than a fairly transparent cur-tain separating the two; after all, serving the will of the One G–d of compassionate righ-teousness and moral justice had to be the operating goals of both religion and state, re-spectively and together, as we are mandated by the Bible again and again.

However, there is one cru-

cial dist inction: Although there must be fundamental and absolute principles of jus-tice governing all affairs, still changing conditions in the

social and economic spheres as well as differences between the two individuals standing before the judge must certain-ly influence the outcome of the judgment; justice dare not be blind (see Babylonian Tal-mud, Bava Metzia 83). Hence it is very rare that two cases, even if similar to each other, will be adjudicated in the exact same way, and a great deal of latitude must ultimate-ly be given to the individual rendering judgment.

This is not the case in ritual law as expressed in the Sanc-tuary or the synagogue, as I believe we may derive from the opening verses of our bib-lical portion, which is dedi-cated to the priesthood and its functions. For example, it is fascinating how Aaron is introduced together with his two sons, and is then present-ed with the special garments

he must wear when serving in the sanctuary.

Un l ike Moses and the prophets throughout the gen-erations, the priesthood (ke-

huna) is indeed transmitted from father to son; unless the priest is properly garbed in his special vestments, he may not enter the Temple precincts. The kohen-priest, you see, is entrusted with transmitting the outer form of Judaism, its external structure from generation to generation; it is the task of the charismat-ic prophet to remind us the inner fire and internal spirit of our faith. External garb may be inherited and ritual performance may be taught; but inspiration of the Holy Spirit is a divine gift and an individual acquisition, which is totally independent of gene-ology.

To be sure, there can be no meaningful religious ex-perience without the sense of the Divine in the here and now, without the spirit of the prophet; but neither

can religion be maintained without the continuity of the kohen-priest. And this conti-nuity is equally crucial to the religious-ritual experience. From the earliest times of the pre-Socratic philosophers, hu-manity has desperately sought for constancy in a world of change, for continuity in a world of flux, for the ability to participate in that which was here before I was born and which will still be here after I die.

This, too, is an important aspect of the quest for G–d, the search for the Divine. And so we have the human need to maintain t ime-honored traditions, to repeat famil-ial customs, to pray not from an ever-changing loose-leaf but rather from an ancient text which is wine-stained and tear-worn from feasts and fasts, which go back centuries and even millennia.

AFTER THE Yom Kippur War, Prime Minister Golda Meir went to New York for a dinner in her honor spon-sored by the Conference of Presidents of American Orga-nizations. As the young pres-ident of a fledgling Center for Russian Jewry at the time, I was invited and seated two tables away from the Prime Minister. I was fascinated by the undisguised boredom on her face as she was forced to sit through the unending lita-ny of inane and sycophantic speeches, the evident relief she exuded when at long last the dinner was being served,

and the ambidextrous grace she exhibited in balancing knife, fork and cigarette as she elegantly began to eat and smoke at the same time.

And then, to her obvious an-noyance, an un-programmed “pr ivate” presentat ion of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan’s in-terpretation of the Haggada was handed to her just as she was taking her third bite. I know of the Kaplan Haggada, a sincere attempt to make the seder more relevant by sub-stituting the Holocaust for the Egyptian enslavement and the establishment of the State of Israel for the desert expe-rience, and they presented it to her with great pride and flourish.

She seemed a bit exasper-ated, put down her utensils and flipped through the Hag-gada, and then, in true Israeli fashion, returned it, saying, “Thank you very much, but I’m not really interested.”

The delegat ion of two looked shocked. “But Madam Prime Minister, surely you’re not an Orthodox Jew and this Haggada brings the story up to date, to the State of Israel.”

“No,” said Golda, “I’m not an Orthodox Jew and I’l l never be one. But I do make a Pessah Seder, especially for my grandchildren. And what is most important to me is that my grand-daughter in-tone at my Seder the same words that my grandmother said at her Seder.” That is the eternity of Israel! b

Shabbat Shalom

Shabbat Shalom …

Parshat Tetzaveh

To be sure, there can be no meaningful religious experience without the sense of the Divine in the here and now, without the spirit of the prophet; but neither can religion be maintained without the continuity of the kohen-priest.

Exodus 27:20–30:10 BY RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN

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

HRW Accepts Saudi Funds to Not Criticize Repression of Gaysby BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

The Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Ken Roth, accepted a major donation from a Saudi real es-tate tycoon by promising not to support advocacy of the LGBT community in the Middle East and North Africa.

The Intercept first reported Monday on the quid pro quo between Roth, who has gained a reputation for strident attacks against Israel, and Saudi bil-lionaire Mohamed Bin Issa al-Jaber.

“Human Rights Watch [HRW] accepted a sizable donation from a Saudi billionaire shortly after its researchers document-ed labor abuses at one of the man’s companies, a potential violation of the rights group’s own fund-raising guidance,” wrote The Intercept’s Alex Em-mons.

“In 2012, Roth signed a mem-orandum of understanding with al-Jaber containing language that said the gift could not be used for LGBT rights work in the region. He was later pic-tured next to Jaber at a 2013

ceremony to memorialize the funding,” the self-described on-line “adversarial journalism” site wrote.

“The controversial donation is at the center of a contentious internal debate about the judg-ment and leadership of Human Rights Watch executive direc-tor Kenneth Roth,” wrote The Intercept.

“The 2012 grant from al-Jaber’s UK-based char ita-ble foundation amounted to $470,000,” the news site said.

The Jerusalem Post can re-port that last year Roth praised Iran’s Foreign Minister Moham-mad Javad Zarif in a tweet, after he defended his regime’s execution of gays.

Roth wrote in July 2019: “In my recent dealings with him, he: 1. Helped secure UN inves-tigation of Myanmar for atroci-ties against Rohingya. 2. Vowed Iran wouldn’t join Syrian at-tacks on Idlib civilians.”

Iran’s regime has neverthe-less participated in attacks on innocent Syrians in Idlib.

When asked why the Islam-ic Republic of Iran executes

gays, Zarif said in June 2019: “Our society has moral prin-ciples, and according to these principles we live,” adding that “these are moral principles re-garding the behavior of people in general. And that’s because the law is upheld and you abide by laws.”

The Post first reported that Iran’s regime publicly hanged a man based on an anti-gay charge in January 2019. HRW and Ken Roth did not criticize Iran’s execution of the man at the time.

According to a 2008 British WikiLeaks cable, the clerical regime in Tehran has executed between 4,000 and 6,000 gays and lesbians since 1979.

It is unclear whether the Saudi deal with Roth stopped him and HRW from criticizing Iran’s lethal homophobia.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia imposes the death penalty on its gay citizens.

On February 27, HRW pub-lished a note that it returned the donation to the Saudi real estate magnet, after The Inter-cept launched its inquiry into

HRW misconduct.“In 2012, Human Rights

Watch made a deeply regretta-ble decision to accept a dona-tion that included conditions that the funds not be used to support HRW’s work on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the Middle East and North Africa,” the watchdog wrote.

Roth has faced severe criti-cism in a New York Times opin-ion piece from the late Robert L. Bernstein, founder of HRW and its chairman from 1978 to 1998, for his failure to promote human rights in closed Middle Eastern nations.

“I must publicly join the group’s critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mis-sion to pry open closed societ-ies, advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters. But recently it has been issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state,” wrote Bernstein in 2009.

Roth was a zealous advocate of pushing the UN’s Human

Rights Council to post a black-list of companies operating in the disputed Palestinian terri-tories. The list is perceived by critics as a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions measure target-ing Israel.

HRW was embroiled in a Saudi fund-raising scandal in 2009. A Wall Street Journal op-ed alleged that the group sent officials to the kingdom to secure funds by showing off its fights with “pro-Israel pressure groups.” Writing in WSJ, David Bernstein said: “A delegation from Human Rights Watch was recently in Saudi Arabia. To investigate the mistreatment of women under Saudi law? To campaign for the rights of homosexuals, subject to the death penalty in Saudi Arabia? To protest the lack of religious freedom in the Saudi kingdom? To issue a report on Saudi polit-ical prisoners?

“No, no, no, and no. The del-egation arrived to raise money from wealthy Saudis by high-lighting HRW’s demonization of Israel.” b

© The Jerusalem Post


NOTICE OF FORMATION OF: TRT Transportaion, LLC

TRT Transportation, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on September 17, 2019. Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. The principal business location is 250 Mill Street Rochester NY 14614. 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 Roderick Nelson, TRT Tran-portation, LLC, 250 Mill Street Rochester NY 14614. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 36 Tracy, LLC

36 Tracy, LLC filed Articles of Organi-zation with NYS on 4/28/2015. Its princi-pal office is in Monroe County, New York. The principal business location is 26 Stony Brook Lane, Fairport, N.Y. 14450 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 to 36 Tracy, LLC 26 Stony Brook Lane, Fairport NY 14450 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

Streamline Real Estate Partners, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State on 1/15/20. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the Company upon whom pro-cess against it may be served, and a copy shall be mailed to 1657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610. Its purpose is any lawful business.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TCFL LLCTCFL LLC filed Articles of Organization

with NYS on 10/2/2019. (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, 4670 Dewey Av-enue, Rochester, NY 14612. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONMichele & One L Co. LLC filed Arti-

cles of Organization with Sec. of State (SSNY) on January 24, 2020. Office loca-tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the Michele & One L Co. LLC, 51 Atlantic Ave, Rochester, New York 14607. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONFEDELE FAMILY LLC filed Articles of

Organization with the New York Depart-ment of State on January 24, 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 920 Elm Ridge Center Drive. Rochester, NY 14626. The purpose of the Company is any lawful business in the State of New York

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CHERRY CRICK ASSOCIATES LLC

CHERRY CRICK ASSOCIATES LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 1/15/2020. (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, 3375 Brighton Henri-etta Townline Road, Rochester, NY 14623. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification:Notice of Qualification of IMPELLENT

VENTURES I, LP. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/24/20. Office lo-cation: Monroe County. LP formed in DE on 1/10/20. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 10 SUMMIT OAKS, PITTSFORD, NY, 14534, principal business address. DE address of LP: 850 New Burton Rd., Suite 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Name/address of each general partner available from Sec. of State. Pur-pose: all lawful purposes.


VENTURES I GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/24/20. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in DE on 1/10/20. NY Sec. of State desig-nated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 10 SUMMIT OAKS, PITTSFORD, NY, 14534, principal business address. DE address of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Suite

201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONVAEGORSTEIN BUSINESS ENTER-

PRISES LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the New York De-partment of State on MARCH 2, 2010. 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, 7014 13TH AVENUE, SUITE 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.


Marvelous Mind Academy LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State on May 20, 2014. 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 274 North Goodman Street, Suite D110, Rochester, NY 14607. Its purpose is any lawful business.


VENTURES, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/27/20. Office loca-tion: Monroe County. LLC formed in DE on 1/10/20. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 10 SUMMIT OAKS, PITTSFORD, NY, 14534, principal business address. DE address of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Suite 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LENMARL LLC

LENMARL LLC filed Articles of Or-ganization with NYS on 1/21/2020. (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, 6 Oasis Lane, Rochester, New York 14624. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of 1-2 Davy, LLC a

domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY January 28, 2020. Office location: 394 Bromley Road, Churchville, New York 14428. SSNY is des-ignated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The Company 394 Bromley Road, Churchville, New York 14428 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of 3230-3244

Buffalo, LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY January 28, 2020. Office location: 394 Bromley Road, Churchville, New York 14428. SSNY is designated agent upon whom pro-cess against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The Company 394 Bromley Road, Churchville, New York 14428 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of Alan Todd En-

terprises, LLC a domestic Limited Lia-bility Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY November 21, 2019. Office location:1448 Blossom Road, Rochester, New York 14610. SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The Company 1448 Blossom Road, Rochester, New York 14610 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To en-gage in any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATIONNotice of formation of limited liability

company. Name: FSI Driving Park 2 LLC (the Company). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/09/19. 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, 90 Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. 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 Com-pany 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/char-acter of the Company: any and all lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CDSRx LLCCDSRx LLC filed Articles of Organization

with NYS on 01/28/2020. (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, 860 Hard Road, Webster, NY 14580. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 800 PARKER HILL DRIVE LLC

800 Parker Hill Drive LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 01/27/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been designat-ed as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to the LLC, PO Box 230, Henrietta, NY 14467. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.


The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany (LLC) is NYS Route 5 Storage, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 2/7/2019. 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 90 Airpark Dr., Ste. 400, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Ducks in a Row Home Organizing, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 11/5/2019. Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. The principal business location is 8 Parkview Manor Cir-cle, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. 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 Ducks in a Row Home Organizing, LLC at 8 Parkview Manor Circle, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION: DESIGNWORX ARCHITECTS, PLLC

Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/28/20. 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, 263 Central Avenue, Rochester, New York 14605. The character or purpose of its business is to engage in any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under Section 1203 of the Limited Liability Company Act.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONDowney Real Estate, LLC filed Articles

of Organization with the New York Depart-ment of State on January 27, 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 10345 Fasano Drive, Lake-side, CA 92040. Any lawful purpose.

NOTICEArticles of Organization with respect to

SMR 2020, LLC, a New York limited liability company, were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on January 7, 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 SMR 2020, 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, SMR 2020, LLC served upon him or her is c/o the Company, PO Box 232, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. SMR 2020, 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 OF VKC HOLDINGS LLC

VKC HOLDINGS LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 1/28/2020. (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, 7 Pipers Meadow Trail, Penfield, NY 14526. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONHONEY DEW LIST LLC filed Articles of

Organization with the New York Depart-ment 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 process against it may be served and a copy of any

process shall be mailed to 248 LUDDINGTON LN, ROCHESTER, NY 14612. The purpose of the Company is ANY LAWFUL BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC)

Johnson Family Holdings LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (SSNY) on January 7, 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 81 Shumway Road, Brockport, NY 14420. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC)

OMLR Property Holdings LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (SSNY) on January 24, 2020. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Ad-dress to which SSNY shall mail a copy of pro-cess: Bryant Accounting Services CPA, PLLC, 4 Commercial Street, Suite 101, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONNotice of formation of limited liability

company (LLC) Moondream Labs, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (SSNY) on January 14, 2020. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designat-ed as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of process is 66 Daylilly Lane, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful purpose.


585 Research LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State on 1/22/2020. 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 9 Ambergate Rise, Pittsford, NY 14534. Its purpose is any lawful business.


(1) Name: Route 104 Self Storage LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on January 29, 2020 (3) Its office location is to be in Monroe Coun-ty, 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: 1777 East Henrietta Road, Bldg. A, Suite 100, Rochester, NY 14623 (5) Pur-pose: Any lawful act or activity.


(1) Name: KZPZ LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Ar-ticles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on January 24, 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: 166 Mill Road, Pittsford, NY 14534 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Formation of Agatina’s Ital-ian Eats, LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY January 31, 2020. Office location: 27 Quail Lane Rochester NY 14624. SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The Company 27 Quail Lane Rochester NY 14624 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Temple B’rith Kodesh 2131 Elmwood Ave. 244-7060Fri: 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Service, ASL Interpreter present Sat: 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Service

Temple Beth El, Geneva 755 S. Main St. (315) 789-2945For service times, call (315) 789-2945 or visit the Temple Beth-El website: www.BethElGeneva.org

Temple Emanu-El 2956 St. Paul Blvd. 266-1978 Fri: 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Service Sat: 10:00 a.m. Chevra Torah Study

Temple Emanu-El 124 Bank St., Batavia 343-7027Fri: 7:30 p.m. Shabbat Service

Congregation Etz Chaim 2 Mountain Rise, Fairport 223-5344IRREGULAR FRIDAYS: 7:30 p.m. Call for schedule.

Temple Sinai 363 Penfield Rd. 381-6890 6:00 p.m. Erev Shabbat Family Service 7:00 p.m. Shabbat Dinner with Friends, followed by arts & crafts Sat: 9:15 a.m. Torah Study 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service

Congregation Beth Hamedresh-Beth Israel 1369 East Ave. 244-2060 Fri: 6:30 p.m. Joint Shabbat Evening Service with Temple Beth Am Sat: 9:30 a.m. Joint Shabbat Morning Service with Temple Beth Am, Torah: Tetzaveh

Temple Beth Am 2131Elmwood Avenue, Entrance A 334-4855 Fri: 6:30 p.m. Service Sat: 9:30 a.m. Parashat Tetzaveh at BHBI

Temple Beth David 2131Elmwood Avenue, 266-3223 Sat: 9 a.m. Torah Study 10 a.m. Shabbat Service w/Beth Am

Temple Beth El 139 Winton Rd. South 473-1770Fri: 6 p.m. Sat: 9:30 a.m., Call for eve. service Sun: 8:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Mon-Thurs: 7:30 a.m., 6 p.m.

Chabad Lubavitch 1037 Winton Rd. South 271-0330Fridays at candle-lighting time, Sat: 9:30 a.m., Evening service 30 min. before sunset

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

Congregation Beth Sholom 1161 Monroe Ave. 473-1625Mon–Fri: 7 a.m. Shachari, 5:50 p.m. Mincha Sat: 9 a.m. Shachari, 5:00 p.m. Study 5:30 p.m. Mincha Sun: 8 a.m. Shachari

Congregation Light of Israel (Sephardic) 1675 Monroe Ave. 271-5690Sat: 9 a.m., Daily Mincha 30 min. before sunset Sun: 8:30 a.m. Monday & Thursday: 7:45 a.m.

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

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(1) Name: 85 Sovran LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on January 16, 2020. (3) Its office location is to be in Monroe County, State of NY. (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: 7745 Shoreline Blvd., Ontario, New York 14519. (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.


(1) Name: 712 Whitney LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on January 30, 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: 70 Valewood Run, Pen-field, NY 14526 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Organization:SAND CLIMBER VENTURES, LLC was

filed with SSNY on 1/31/20. 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: 10 SUMMIT OAKS, PITTSFORD, NY, 14534. Purpose is to engage in any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RINGROSE HILLSIDE LLC

RINGROSE HILLSIDE LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 1/31/2020. (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, 285 North Church Road, Rochester, NY 14612-6107. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION847 MERCHANTS LLC has filed Articles

of Organization with the Secretary of State on February 3, 2020. 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, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 200, Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Accents Ventures LLC

Accents Ventures LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 2/3/2020. Its

principal office is in Monroe County, New York. The principal business location is 12 Columbia Ct., Fairport, NY 14450. 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 Accents Ventures LLC, 12 Columbia Ct., Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.


The name of the Limited Liability Com-pany is 1342 DEWEY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 24, 2020. The office of the LLC is located in Monroe County. The business street address is 9 White Street, Rochester, New York 14608. 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 9 White Street, Roch-ester, New York 14608. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability compa-nies may be formed.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

MARYELLEN DANCE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING PLLC has filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on January 28, 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, 1160F Pittsford Victor Road, Pittsford, New York 14534. Its busi-ness is to engage in any lawful activity for which professional service limited liability companies may be organized under Sec-tion 1203 of the New York Professional Service Limited Liability Company Act.

NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY OF EMPIRE MEDICINALS TRANSPORTATION LLC

Name: Empire Medicinals Transpor-tation LLC (LLC). Authority filed with NY Secretary of State (SSNY): 01/30/2020. LLC organized in Delaware: 01/27/2020. NY 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 The LLC, 260 E. Main Street, Suite 6422, Rochester, NY, 14604. Address of office maintained in jurisdiction of formation: 1675 South State Street, Suite B, Dover, Delaware 19901. Copy of Certificate of Formation on file

with Delaware Secretary of State, 401 Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, Delaware 19901. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF FRESH LAUNDRY SERVICES LLC

FRESH LAUNDRY SERVICES LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 2/5/2020. (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, 105 Edinburgh Street, Rochester, NY 14608. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MADISON PLYMOUTH PROPERTIES LLC

MADISON PLYMOUTH PROPERTIES LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 2/5/2020. (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, 105 Edinburgh Street, Rochester, NY 14608. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATIONNotice of formation of limited lia-

bility company (LLC). Name: CORNER-STONE AUTOMATION SERVICES, LLC (the Company). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/3/2018. NY office location: Mon-roe 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: The LLC, 125 Canal Landing Boulevard, Rochester, New York. The Company is to be managed by one or more members. 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 ROC INDUSTRIAL LLC

ROC INDUSTRIAL LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 01/07/2020. Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. The principal business location is 124 Sparrow Dr, West Henrietta, NY, 14586. 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 company and address . Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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

Name: 49 Saint Bridgets Drive, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State with the State of New York (“SSNY”) on: February 10, 2020. Office Location: 27 Saint Bridgets Drive, Rochester, New York 14605 County of: Monroe. Principal Business Location: 27 Saint Bridgets Drive, Rochester, New York 14605. 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: 27 Saint Bridgets Drive, Rochester, New York 14605

NOTICE OF FORMATIONFAIRPORT ROAD LLC has filed Articles

of Organization with the Secretary of State on February 11, 2020. 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, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 200, Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONROC POINTE PROPERTIES LLC has

filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on January 14, 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, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 200, Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Wood and Water Seneca, LLC

Wood and Water Seneca, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the Secre-tary of State on January 30, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent upon whom pro-cess against the Limited Liability Company may be served and the post office address within or without this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him or her is Wood and Water Seneca, LLC, 36 Princ-eton Lane, Fairport, New York 14450. (3) The character or purpose of its business is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New

York Limited Liability Company Act. (4) The Limited Liability Company is to be managed by one or more managers.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Shady Beach Cayuga, LLC

Shady Beach Cayuga, LLC filed Arti-cles of Organization with the Secretary of State on January 30, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. (2) The Secretary of State has been des-ignated as its agent upon whom process against the Limited Liability Company may be served and the post office address within or without this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him or her is Shady Beach Cayuga, LLC, 36 Princeton Lane, Fairport, New York 14450. (3) The character or purpose of its business is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Act. (4) The Limited Liability Company is to be managed by one or more managers.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE CENTER FOR SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE, LLC

THE CENTER FOR SOCIAL INTELLI-GENCE, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on 2/12/2020. (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, 349 W. Commercial Street, Suite 2630, East Rochester, NY 14445. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GRT Realty LLC

GRT Realty LLC filed Articles of Orga-nization with NYS on 2/6/2020. Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. The principal business location is 210 Ashley Dr., Rochester NY 14620. 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 GRT Realty LLC, 210 Ashley Dr., Rochester NY 14620. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LLCMedia and Online Services LLC (LLC)

filed Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/12/2020. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served and SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at 10 Office Park Way, Suite 100. Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any business permitted under law.

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‘Judge Judy’ to End After 25th Season, But Judy Will Be on a New Bench

by MARCY OSTER(JTA) — “Judge Judy” will

stop banging her gavel after 25 years on the TV bench — but she won’t stop meting out justice.

Judy Sheindlin, the Jewish judge on the popular court tele-vision series, told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres in an in-terview set to be aired Monday that the series will wrap up in 2021. But she also said a new show, “Judy Justice,” will pre-miere the next year, Deadline reported.

CBS, she said, plans to con-tinue to screen “Judge Judy” in reruns.

“CBS sort of felt, I think, they wanted to optimally utilize the repeats of my program,” Sheindl in told DeGeneres. “Now they have 25 years of my reruns. What they decided to do is sell a couple of years’ worth of reruns. But I’m not tired, so Judy Justice will be

coming out a year later.”Sheindlin, 77, said she cannot

say where the new show will be airing.

“Judge Judy” is the top-rated daytime syndicated program, averaging over 9 million view-ers daily. It was renewed by CBS-TV Distribution in 2018 through 2021 in a deal that re-portedly included a $47 million a year salary for Sheindlin and CBS acquiring the “Judge Judy” library from her for $80-$90

million, according to Deadline.

Survey Shows Jewish Americans Will Vote for Any Dem Over Trump

by LAURA E. ADKINS(JTA) — No matter who is

running on the Democratic presidential ticket in 2020, he or she is likely to get the Jewish vote by a wide margin, accord-ing to a new survey.

The survey, released Friday by the Jewish Electoral Insti-tute, found that two-thirds of Jewish voters said they would choose any Democratic can-didate over President Donald Trump.

The survey was conducted Feb. 18 to 24, a period that in-cluded Sanders’ announcement that he would not attend the AIPAC’s annual conference next week. After his announcement, some pundits suggested that nominating him would result in Jews preferring the Republican candidate for the first time in contemporary American histo-ry. (Four years ago, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton re-ceived 70% of the Jewish vote.)

But the survey finds that even though Jewish voters view Sanders more unfavor-ably than they do his Demo-cratic rivals, they disapprove of Trump far more. While 45% of Jewish voters said they had an unfavorable view of Bernie Sanders, who has tied or won the Democratic primary’s first three nominating contests, 61% said they strongly disapprove

of Trump (down from a high of 71% in the survey group’s 2018 survey), and 65% would vote for him over the President in an election.

A majority of respondents said they believe “President Trump at least partially responsible for the targeted attacks on syn-agogues in recent years,” and 45% said they believed Trump was emboldening far-right ex-tremists and white nationalists, up from 38% a year ago.

The survey found that a ma-jority of respondents — 66% of whom identified as Democrats and 26% as Republicans — fa-vored Trump’s positions on a handful of Israel issues, includ-ing his overall performance on “U.S.-Israel relations.” But while 91% of respondents said they are “generally pro-Israel,” only 32% indicated that Israel is one of their most important voting issues.

The online survey of 1,001 self-identified Jewish voters who indicate that they are like-ly to vote in the November 2020 election has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points. b

Judy Sheindlin of “Judge Judy” at the 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at Pasadena Civic Center, where she received the Lifetime Achievement Award, May 5, 2019. (Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images)



NOTICE OF FORMATIONMCO FLOORING LLC has filed Articles

of Organization with the Secretary of State on February 18, 2020. 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, 200 Metro Park, Rochester, New York 14623. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

North Coast Service Center, LLCNotice of formation of limited liability

company (LLC). Name: North Coast Ser-vice Center, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 13, 2020. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designat-ed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 1177 Fairport Road, Suite 200, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATIONRENZA RENTALS LLC has filed Articles

of Organization with the Secretary of State on February 19, 2020. 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, 620 Park Avenue, Suite 325, Rochester, New York 14607. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.

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.


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.


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.

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Obama White House Alum Named Democratic National Committee Jewish Liaison

(JNS) — Matt Nosanchuk, who served as the White House liaison to the Jewish community under President Barack Obama, has been appointed by the Dem-ocratic National Committee in a similar capacity.

The DNC has not had some-one in a permanent position as its Jewish liaison since Andrew Weinberg, who served in the role during the 2016 election cycle.

“This is hands down the most important election of our lifetime. With so much on the line, I am honored to have the opportunity to join the DNC team working under chair Tom Perez’s leadership to defeat [U.S. President] Donald Trump and ensure Democratic victories at every level,” Nosanchuk told Jewish Insider.

“American Jews vote Demo-cratic by wide margins because on issue after issue, our values align with those of the Dem-ocratic Party,” he continued. “That is truer than ever this election year.”

During his time in the Obama administration, one of the big-gest issues Nosanchuk faced was defending the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which received a mixed reception in the Jewish community.

“By hiring such a high-caliber person to fill that role, the DNC is demonstrating how seriously they are taking Jewish com-munal outreach,” said former National Jewish Democratic Council head Aaron Keyak. “He has a demonstrated ability to mobilize the Jewish community as [Democrats] fight to defeat Trump in November. A very smart hire by the DNC.”

Jewish Democratic Council of America executive director Halie Soifer told JNS, “We are confident that Jewish voters will continue to support Democrats in overwhelming numbers, and

are expanding our efforts to get out the Jewish vote in Novem-ber in support of candidates who share our values.”

IAEA Criticizes Iran for Denying Access to Two Nuclear Sites

(JNS) — The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency admonished Iran on Tuesday for not answering ques-tions about nuclear activities at three sites and for denying access to two of them.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog issued its quarterly update on Iran’s atomic program on Tuesday, but for the first time since the 2015 Joint Compre-hensive Plan of Action nucle-ar deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations went into effect, also issued a second report. The regular report said that Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched ura-nium had almost tripled since November.

“I judged it necessary to pro-duce a second report because I

thought the situation is serious enough to merit such a move on my part,” new IAEA chief Rafael Grossi told Reuters.

This second, confidential IAEA report was seen by Reu-ters, which reported that it calls Iran out for not allowing access to two sites and refusing to an-swer questions related to possi-

ble undeclared nuclear material and activities.

“We have insisted and despite all our efforts we have not been able to get that, so the situation requires on my part such a step because what this means is that Iran is curtailing the ability of the agency to do its work,” said Grossi. b

International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi in Vienna, Austria, Oct. 2, 2019. (Dean Calma/IAEA via Wikimedia Commons)


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 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, 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 lim-ited liability companies may be organized 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 lia-

bility companies may be organized under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Com-pany 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 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, 2850 Clover Street, Pittsford, New York 14534. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose

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 loca-tion: 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 Genesee 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 Orga-

nization 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, Roches-ter, 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 loca-tion: 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 Compa-

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Bipartisan ‘Foundation’ on Israel in Danger, Warns AIPAC CEO at Conference Enmeshed in Politics

(JNS) — The theme of this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference was billed as “Today. Tomor-row. Together,” the essence of which seemed to be lost in all the political noise associated with 2020 Democratic presi-dential candidates deciding on whether or not to show up at the annual event.

The conference, however, has long been geared to deliberate concerns and boost relations between Diaspora Jewry and Israelis, and use the time to salve some of the more conten-tious issues associated with the two largest Jewish communi-ties in the world.

However, with this year’s conference coinciding with a U.S. presidential election and the Democrat ic pr imaries, clearly politics was an unavoid-able part of the gathering. And in an unusual turn of events, the conference also took place smack dab in the midst of the third round of general elections in Israel within the last year. It was almost hard to get past such major goings-on to tackle other pressing matters, such as the blatant anti-Semitism that’s snaking its way across Europe and the United States.

The conference proceedings seemed muted by the clash of candidates — notably, by progressive Democrats Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) stating weeks beforehand their intention to stay away. Only former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attended

in person to speak (who on Wednesday morning, after a poor showing on Super Tues-day, announced the end of his campaign), despite the fact that it was Vice President Joe Biden who was brushing off his suit jacket after a striking win in the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, followed by consecutive successes on Super Tuesday. Instead, Biden taped comments that were shown to the 20,000 pro-Israel activists gathered in the na-tion’s capital.

And there were other ele-phants in the room: The dis-concerting progression of the coronavirus, which has statis-tically racked up as much time in the news as the numbers associated with delegates being collected during the Democrat-ic primaries, and the ongoing aggression from Iran, which did get some attention during the three-day conference.

In fact, that’s where Vice President Mike Pence and members of the Trump admin-istration, including U.S. Sec-retary of State Mike Pompeo, came in to shine.

“For decades, we have built a broad consensus as the foun-dation of support for Israel in America. This foundation con-sists of both parties. Democrats and Republicans. All faiths. All races. All Americans.”

They touted the Trump ad-ministration’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the reimposition of U.S. sanc-tions and the establishment of

new ones; the continued hard line against Tehran when it comes to its nuclear program and attempts to avert sanc-tions, and to continue to do business with Europe and Asia; and the U.S. killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a move that evoked controversy among legislators in Congress.

And, of course, they rattled off the impressive list of ad-ministration accomplishments when it comes to pro-Israel moves—from recognizing Je-rusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv, coupled with ac-knowledging Israel’s sovereign-ty over the Golan Heights and its right to Jewish settlements, to clamping down on aid to the Palestinian Authority due to its payments to terrorists and their families, in addition to closing the PLO mission in Washing-ton, D.C.

Not to mention the “Peace to Prosperity” plan that has set expectations for change in the Middle East over the next few years, the contents of which were definitely embrace by Is-rael and rejected by Palestinian leadership.

‘Foundation in danger of being rocked’

Meanwhile, the issue of maintaining bipartisan sup-port for Israel and the pushback against anti-Israel progressives (especially in light of the Sand-ers’s snub) was a crucial topic for AIPAC CEO Howard Kohr as

he kicked off the conference.“For decades, we have built

a broad and bipartisan con-sensus as the foundation of support for Israel in America,” said Kohr on Sunday morning. “This foundation consists of both parties. Democrats and Republicans. All faiths. All races. All Americans.”

“It is a foundation that has endured no matter who was president, no matter who con-trolled Congress, no matter how events unfolded in the Middle East,” he continued. “We believed, and continue to believe, that when America stands with the Jewish state, Israelis are more secure, and Americans are, too.”

However, warned Kohr, “today that foundation is in danger of being rocked as it never has been before. A grow-ing, highly vocal and energized part of the electorate funda-mentally rejects the value of the U.S.-Israel alliance. It is no longer on the margins, but instead has taken the spotlight of our political life. Its most radical views are bending the political conversation and com-manding attention,” he said.

Such language comes amid Democratic leadership being criticized for inadequately deal-ing with anti-Israel bias and anti-Semitic rhetoric within its own party — namely, from Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), both of whom have endorsed Sanders for president.

And it almost pointedly re-

ferred to the provocative nature of Sanders’s directives towards AIPAC, who on Feb. 23 pro-claimed his decision not to at-tend the conference after even more loudly accusing AIPAC of “fostering bigotry,” a claim that caused AIPAC to respond with a statement calling the com-ment “truly shameful.” (They also noted that he’s never even attended an AIPAC conference — a not-so-subtle insinuation of “no love lost.”)

That’s on top of multiple calls over the years accusing the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya-hu as being “racist”—a harsh determination that, more re-cently, he has associated with Netanyahu himself.

It was a claim that had Isra-el’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon saying, “We don’t want Sanders at AIPAC. We don’t want him in Israel. Anyone who calls our prime minister a ‘racist’ is ei-ther a liar, an ignorant fool or both.”

He almost proved Kohr’s point.

“Once among the best, most authentic expressions of bi-partisan support in America, the U.S.-Israel relationship as we know it… is under attack,” he said, adding that “between now and Nov. 3, every candi-date running for federal office will appeal to our various com-munities for support. But the promise of our support must be predicated on their promise to stand with Israel.” b

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These 7 Jewish Actresses Shaped Hollywood as We Know it

by HANNAH STEINKOPF-FRANKBoth on screen and behind

the scenes, Jewish directors, producers and writers are cred-ited with developing the Hol-lywood system as we know it today. These seven pioneer-ing Jewish actresses defied ex-pectations of their gender and many survived religious perse-cution, fleeing Europe during World War II. Their films are testaments to their talent and prove the power of cinema as both a realm of escapism and a vehicle to explore some of the world’s most pressing issues.

1. Elisabeth Bergner (1897-1986)

The Austrian actress Elisa-beth Bergner was nominated for a best actress Oscar in 1935 and even may have helped cre-ate the titular character in the film “All About Eve.” Bergner was one of Germany’s most renowned theater and film actresses, known for her an-drogynous, pants-wearing roles (something pretty unheard of at the time).

After moving to London, she helped fellow actors es-cape Nazi Germany. During a screening of her movie “The Rise of Catherine the Great” in Berlin, Nazis staged a riot as part of their larger campaign to ban Jewish art. Bergner and her husband, director Paul Czinner, soon fled to the U.S., where she starred with Laurence Olivier in “As You Like It” (1936). She re-turned to Europe after the war, acting in the 1973 film “Der Fußgänger” (“The Pedestrian”), which was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe. A Berlin city park was named for Bergner.

Read more: “Elisabeth Bergn-er,” by Arthur Eloesser

2. Libby Holman (1904-1971)

As an openly bisexual Amer-ican actress who was charged with murdering her husband (inspiring three films), Libby Holman led a controversial life. Even though it was ruled a sui-cide, the death of Holman’s hus-band, Zachary Smith Reynolds,

tarnished her reputation and coverage of the incident was marred by anti-Semitism. She was also the youngest woman to graduate from the University of Cincinnati and went against social standards by playing shows with African-American musicians. Holman befriend-ed Martin Luther King Jr. and helped pay for his 1959 trip to India to study the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.

In addition to her involve-ment in the civil rights move-ment and taking part in the experimental film “Dreams That Money Can Buy” (1947), Holman is largely remembered as a stage actress. She has been credited as well for populariz-ing the strapless dress, which was her signature look.

Read more: “Dreams that Money Can Buy: The Tragic Life of Libby Holman,” by Jon Bradshaw

3. Ruby Myers (1907-1983)

Ruby Myers, who went by the

stage name Sulochana, was an Indian actress of Middle East-ern origin who defied the social norms of her era by starring in early Hindi silent films. During the late 1700s, Jews from Iraq, Syria, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire came to India, establishing the Baghdadi Jew-ish community. Some of the first women to act in Indian movies came from this Jewish Diaspora.

Myers, who was working as a telephone operator when she was discovered, was hesitant to pursue acting. But she went on to star in films including “Typ-ist Girl” (1926) and “Wildcat of Bombay” (1927), in which she played eight characters. When talkies took over, she learned Hindustani. In the 1930s, Myers opened her own production house, Rubi Pics, and in 1973 was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India’s highest award for cinema.

Read more: “Voices of the Talking Stars: Women of Indian Cinema and Beyond,” edited by

Madhuja Mukherjee

4. Sylvia Sidney (1910-1999)

Born to Russian-Jewish im-migrants, stage and film actress Sylvia Sidney rose to fame in the 1930s for playing the part-ner of gangsters. Sidney starred alongside the leading actors of her day, including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant and Spen-cer Tracy. She also was one of the first American actresses to work with Alfred Hitchcock, appearing in “Sabotage” (1936). The character actress also had a strong career in theater and television.

Later in life, Sidney was nom-inated for an Academy Award for “Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams” (1973). She went on to act in Tim Burton’s “Bee-tlejuice” and “Mars Attacks!,” which was her last movie. On the side, she raised pug dogs for competitive show and wrote two books on needlepoint.

Read more: “Sylvia Sidney — Paid by the Tear,” by Scott

O’Brien

5. Luise Rainer (1910-2014)

Luise Rainer, who was born in Germany, made history as the first actress to win multiple Academy Awards and to win multiple back to back. Despite a burgeoning career on film and stage in Vienna and Berlin, she moved to Hollywood in the 1930s because of Hitler’s rise to power. After only a few years in the U.S., she won her first Oscar for “The Great Ziegfeld” (1936). She played Anna Held, the com-mon-law wife of theater pro-ducer Florenz Ziegfeld, in the movie inspired by true events. After winning a second Acade-my Award for “The Good Earth” (1937), her career at MGM fal-tered and she later described her Oscars success as a curse. But her contributions have been recognized with stars on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Boulevard der Stars in Berlin.

Read more: “Seen from the Wings: Luise Rainer My Moth-er, The Journey,” by Francesca Knittel-Bowyer

6. Lillian Roth (1910-1980)

Lillian Roth began her ca-reer as a child star, making her Broadway debut in “The Inner Man” and going on to star in Paramount Pictures f i lms including the Marx Brothers’ “Animal Crackers” (1930). In her personal life, Roth dealt with alcoholism and lacked autonomy in many

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Elisabeth Bergner. (United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division via JTA) Libby Holman. (Confetta/Flickr via JTA)

Ruby Myers. (Bollywoodirect/Medium via JTA) Sylvia Sidney. (Vintage Everyday via JTA)

Luise Rainer. (Paramount/ Wikimedia Commons via JTA)Lillian Roth. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

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I’m a Middle East Peace Negotiator. Trump’s Plan is the Most Dangerous I’ve Ever Seen.

by AARON DAVID MILLERWASHINGTON (JTA) — Fifteen years

ago, I wrote a piece for The Washington Post titled “Israel’s Lawyer.” The con-ceit was pretty simple, though in some quarters it was seen as highly provoca-tive: For too long, too many senior U.S. officials working on the Arab-Israeli peace process, including myself, had effectively been serving as attorneys for one side instead of working to achieve a peace agreement that was in the best interests of the United States, Israel and the Palestinians.

A decade and a half later, I have come to realize that I was clueless as to how far an administration might actually go in furthering Israel’s narrative at the ex-pense of Palestinians — and how much they could undermine U.S. interests in the process. While negotiation teams I have served on may have acted as a partial broker, the bias of Trump’s peace team makes our missteps seem trivial in comparison.

“Israel’s lawyer” was a term I found in Henry Kissinger’s memoirs and res-urrected for Secretary of State James Baker during the nine months leading up to the Madrid Conference in October 1991. Baker loved the idea because he understood that to reach an agreement, he’d need to balance the requirements of both sides. Yes, the United States has a special relationship with Israel, but if that bond became exclusive, America

would lose the credibility, leverage and trust it needed from both sides to raise the odds of reaching an accord.

It’s no coincidence that the U.S. has succeeded in the peace process only three times — Kissinger’s three disen-gagement agreements with Israel, Syria and Egypt, 1973-75; Jimmy Carter’s Camp David Accords and the Egyp-tian-Israeli peace treaty 1978-79; and Baker’s Madrid Conference. In each case, the U.S. lawyered for both sides.

Watching the past three years of the Trump administration’s handling of the peace process, it has become clear

that the team that put the “Deal of the Century” together (many of whom were real lawyers) had an additional client far more important than Israel — Don-ald Trump.

I have worked on teams for U.S. pres-idents, too — between 1989 and 2000 for George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton. But we genuinely believed in working toward an outcome tethered to the U.S. national interests, not merely anchored in the political advantage and personal ego of the occupant of the White House.

During the Clinton administration, we had a policy of clearing drafts and

positions with the Israelis, and general-ly gave Israel a much wider margin to influence key issues in the negotiations — especially when it came to securi-ty-related matters — than we ever gave to the Palestinians.

This was no secret. At the Camp David summit in July 2000, I vividly remember PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat asking me on the fourth day of the summit what the holdup was in turn-ing over a draft paper that the United States had prepared for the Palestin-ians review. Erekat added that I should please tell the Israelis to hurry up and review the document so that we could accommodate their changes and get the document (ostensibly representing the U.S. position) back to the PLO.

But whatever mistakes our team made — our pro-Israel bent certainly among them — we tried to honestly wrestle with the tough issues in a way that would allow both Israel and the Pales-tinians to engage on them.

The Camp David summit was ill ad-vised and ill conceived, and neither we, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak nor certainly Yasser Arafat were pre-pared. The negotiating parameters that President Clinton put on the table in December 2000 were offered up too late and in the worst possible circum-stances. But the substance of the ideas on territory, Palestinian statehood and

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Where was Bernie when Americans Fought for Soviet Jewry?

(JNS) — Sanders is criticized for his attitude towards Cuba, but it matters that while other Jews were protesting So-viet anti-Semitism, the Socialist had other pri-orities.

Now that he’s the f ront runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Ber-nie Sanders is finally being asked some tough questions about what it means to be a Socialist in 2020. But a key part of that query is not just a matter of economics. It also involves understanding his views about the world. Which is what led him to engage in some heavy-duty rational-izing for the Communist dictatorship in Cuba when asked about the subject in an interview this past week on “60 Minutes.”

His unwillingness to unequivocally condemn the Castro regime is hardly surprising. Sanders has been a fan of the Communist government of that tor-tured island since he was a young man. His support for left-wing, revolutionary anti-American regimes around the globe was a hallmark of his activist past.

The Cold War may have ended more

than 30 years ago, but no matter how you slice it, the senator’s comments about Cuba, Sandinista-ruled Nicaragua or even the Soviet Union don’t age well. It’s never a good look for a would-be commander-in-chief to have been a fan of America’s enemies.

But, as his supporters say, why does this ancient history matter? We are living in a different world than the one that existed before the fall of the Berlin Wall. So while Cuban exiles are under-standably up in arms about Sanders’s reflexive defense of Castro’s supposed improvements of Cuban life — and his claim that improved literacy rates were

praiseworthy when all anyone there was allowed to read was Communist propaganda — there are more important issues at hand.

Yet understanding the man who could be the next president also requires plac-ing him in the context of 20th-century Jewish thought. Despite his recent de-cision to talk about being proud of his Jewishness after largely ignoring that element of his identity during his de-cades in public life, Sanders’s love affair with Socialism marks him as reflecting a leftist mindset that was embraced by many Jews in this period. Utopian and universalist philosophies were seen as offering an answer to the Jewish dilem-ma of perpetual victimhood. Jewish So-cialists thought that problem would be solved not by allowing Jews to gain the power to defend themselves in their own land, as Zionists believed. Rather, they thought the answer was transforming the entire world into a place where no one would suffer through the wonders wrought by collective economics and the dictatorship of the people.

Those who treat this subject as a grand romance to be only viewed through the prism of idealism and high hopes often forget the cost of those utopian dreams. As the authoritative history of the subject, The Black Book of Communism notes, Socialist regimes and movements were responsible for

the deaths of approximately 94 million people in the 20th century. But in a country where history is devalued as a subject of study and little understood even when it is taught, it’s not surprising that now that a generation has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its main satellites (Cuba being one of the last totalitarian holdouts), support for Socialism is making something of a comeback under Sanders’s banner.

Seen from the point of view of the Sanders campaign, the history of Social-ism needs to be — to steal a phrase from George Orwell, one of that movement’s most perceptive critics — tossed “down the memory hole.” And with Sanders insisting that his version of “Democratic Socialism” has nothing to do with the record of the oppressive regimes that he once supported, most observers think they have a point.

Yet there is one element of this air-brushing of the past that those who dismiss concerns about Sanders ought to consider.

Sanders asks us to trust him with American foreign policy, and in par-ticular, the Middle East peace process because, he claims, he is an advocate for both Israelis and Palestinians. He is now using his identity as a Jew to dismiss charges that he doesn’t care about the survival of the one Jewish state on the

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for an announce-ment of Trump’s Middle East peace plan at the White House, Jan. 28. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

(Most Dangerous — Page 20)

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during a C-Span interview when he was mayor of Burlington, Vt., in 1988. (Screenshot)

(Where was Bernie? — Page 20)


of her romantic relationships: She married many times. She detailed her tribulations in the 1954 memoir “I’ll Cry To-morrow,” which was an in-ternational bestseller. While she eventually converted to Catholicism, she said that she could never forget her Jewish heritage and her life was rich-er because of it. In 1955, “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” was made into a movie of the same name and was nominated for four Acad-emy Awards.

Read more: “I’ll Cry Tomor-row,” by Lillian Roth

7. Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000)

Hedy Lamarr is maybe the only person to both have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and be inducted into the Na-tional Inventors Hall of Fame. Lamarr began her career in European cinema, most notably performing nude in the contro-versial Czech film “Ecstasy” (1933). After leaving Europe, she became a Hollywood star, with her first role in “Algiers” (1938), followed by a slew of MGM fi lms. During World War II, the self-taught inventor

worked with George Antheil, an avant-garde composer, to create a radio guidance system that would thwart Axis attempts to jam Allied torpedoes. This fre-quency-hopping transmission method would prove founda-tional in the development of Bluetooth and other technology. She was also one of the inspira-tions for Disney’s Snow White and the original Catwoman.

Read more: “Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough In-ventions of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World,” by Richard Rhodes b

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Hedy Llamarr. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images via JTA)

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Jerusalem were seen as serious and credible.

Not surpr isingly Arafat, thinking he’d get a better deal from the incoming Bush ad-ministration and riding the tiger of Palestinian violence, all but rejected them. But even had Arafat accepted them, it‘s highly arguable whether he or any Israeli leader would have been able to sell them in the environment of the terror-rid-den environment of the second intifada.

Still, I look back now and feel that if we had really been acting as Israel’s lawyers, then we clearly failed. If you really want to see lawyers in action, take a look at the peace plan that the firm of Trump, Jared

Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and David Friedman have put on the table. It’s neither a basis for immediate negotiations nor a framework that might serve as a future basis for talks. It is the ultimate product of pro-Is-rael lawyering at its best – an effort to use words like “state” and “capital in Jerusalem” to mask a unilateral effort to bring America’s conception of the final status of the West Bank in line with that of Ben-jamin Netanyahu’s Israel. It is an effort to fundamentally and unalterably drive the final stake through the heart of a two-state solution.

The irony, of course, is that this really hasn’t done the State of Israel any great favors. It’s

one thing to tilt toward Israel in a negotiation. It’s quite an-other to try to so totally move the goalposts and make any kind of agreement with the Palestinians nearly impossible to achieve.

Trump and his lawyers, by trying to paint the GOP as the go-to party on Israel and attack the Democrats as Satan’s finger on earth, have undermined the one strength essential to maintaining the vitality of the US-Israeli relationship: bipar-tisanship. Sadly they’ve had more than a little help from progressive Democrats playing into their hands with words that have morphed far beyond legitimate criticism of Israel into age-old anti-Semitic pro-

paganda. Sen. Bernie Sand-ers, having repeatedly used the word racist to describe the Israeli government and prime minister, will afford the Re-publicans an easy target and enormous opportunity in this regard if he becomes the Dem-ocratic nominee for president.

When he has sought my ad-vice during the past couple of years, I have advised Jared Kushner not to become Israel’s lawyer. The last time I met with Kushner, he asked me what, in my view, would con-stitute success on his part. I made it clear that there was zero chance of reaching a con-flict-ending accord, as neither Palestinian Authority Presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas nor Net-

anyahu were willing or able to make the decisions required to achieve one.

But I also told him that if he wasn’t careful, he could make the situation a great deal worse. The key was to put something out that was credible and would put America in position to be seen as a party that could be trusted by all sides to work on the issue in the future. What-ever Israel and the Palestin-ians need to succeed in making peace, what they don’t need is precisely what the Kushner law firm delivered: a frame-work that may well have hung a closed-for-the-season sign both on a viable peace process and America’s credibility as a fair and effective broker. b

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planet or the accusations that his embrace of anti-Semites like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and activists like campaign sur-rogate Linda Sarsour, ought to be disqualifying.

But there is one element to his past record that speaks to whether he deserves that trust.

Cold War controversies seem irrelevant today. But it’s worth asking why, when most Amer-ican Jews were demanding freedom for Soviet Jewry and denouncing the anti-Semitic na-ture of the Communist regime, Bernie Sanders was not there. While Jews who cared about the fate of their brethren were demonstrating in the streets about Soviet tyranny and ad-

vocating for Prisoners of Zion, Sanders was denouncing Amer-ican foreign policy aimed at pressuring his Russian friends. When some heroic Jews went to Russian to aid oppressed Jews and other dissidents, Sanders was traveling the world pro-claiming his sympathy with Soviet allies and then honey-mooning in the Socialist Moth-erland itself.

He may now depict himself as a champion of the under-dog. But by the time Sanders became a public figure in the 1980s, the ideological romance of Socialism was long over, and all that was left was a struggle against tyranny in which his sympathies lay with the tyrants whom he imagined deserved

support in their fight against American imperialism. There is no available evidence that he ever lifted a finger to fight for Soviet Jews.

We may not care today about the politics of the 1960s in which Sanders’s identity was forged; however, the struggle for Soviet Jewry was the great Jewish moral test of the sub-sequent decades, and it is one he failed. If he asks us to trust him now to ensure that the 7 million Jews of Israel are not endangered by his policies, it’s worth asking why he once thought defending Socialism was more important than the fate of millions of Soviet Jews. That is a question of morality, not ancient history. b

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Outdoor Kitchens Are What’s In: Top Tips For Creating A Better Outdoor Kitchen

It’s quickly becoming the most popular gathering space in the home.

And why not? It can come complete with pizza ovens, keg tappers, wine chillers and

more. It can be the epicen-ter for home entertaining. It can be used to store, prep and serve your favorite dishes.

Of course, “it” is the outdoor kitchen.

According to a survey of res-idential landscape architects by the American Society of Landscape Architects, 92 per-cent said outdoor living spaces would be a popular design ele-ment in the coming year.

Not only do they add to the quality of life at home, outdoor kitchens can have a return on investment similar to an indoor kitchen remodel.

Outdoor kitchens can range from a grill, some cabinetry and countertop all the way up to something that resembles a backyard sports bar and grill complete with TV, sound sys-tem, keg tapper, pizza oven and refrigerators.

With so many options avail-able to homeowners, Russ Faulk, a nationally recognized expert on outdoor kitchen de-sign and vice president of de-sign for Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet, has several tips to keep in mind when thinking about creating an outdoor kitchen, no matter the budget.

A Better FireThere’s one rule that should

never be broken when deciding on appliances for the outdoor kitchen, said Faulk. That rule is “never scrimp on the grill,” he said.“A grill drives overall satisfac-

tion with the outdoor kitchen. When choosing a grill, think about the kind of cooking you aspire to, not the kind you do now,” Faulk said. “There are no uniform depths, widths or

heights, so if you have a grill built into a countertop and you no longer like it, it may be a se-rious headache to have the grill replaced and the surrounding counter recut to fit it.”

While Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet is known for its Hy-brid Fire Grill — which allows for cooking with gas, charcoal and wood all in one grill — there are many viable options at various price points. Finding one that will enable your cook-ing capabilities to grow is key.

Avoid Common MistakesInsufficient lighting and

counter space are the two most common mistakes Faulk sees in outdoor kitchens. He said these mistakes greatly limit how well the kitchen works.

“Without enough lighting around the grill, it’s hard to cook at night, especially in the spring or fall when night comes earlier,” he said. Faulk recommends placing lighting around or over the grill to see food being cooked, but make sure the lights’ beams are not blocked by the grill hood, caus-ing a shadow to be cast over the cooking surfaces.“You need space to work,

stack and serve,” Faulk said of three major tasks that take place on a countertop. Having enough room in the right plac-es is key to creating an outdoor kitchen that will be function-al and enjoyable for years to come. Faulk said there should be several “landing areas” — or uninterrupted space — on the countertop where certain tasks can be accomplished.“A grill should have 24 inches

of counter space on one side

and 12 inches on the other, so the cook can take food from one platter and put it on the grill,” Faulk said. “After the food is done, the cook can take it off the grill and place it on a platter on the other side of the grill.” He said sinks should have 18 inches on either side to give enough room to wash food or stack dirty dishes.

Staying Cold and DryNot all cabinetry or refriger-

ation is made the same. Before deciding on a piece of refrig-eration, Faulk suggests asking two questions: “Is it rated as food safe?” and “Can it be kept outside all year?”“Lots of people are surprised

to learn about what’s avail-able for outdoor refrigeration

— drawers, freezers, beverage chillers and even keg tappers,” said Faulk. “By asking if the refrigeration is rated food safe, you learn that the unit can hold a set interior temperature even when the thermometer rises above 95 degrees outdoors. Food safe refrigeration means that poultry and other grocer-ies won’t go bad and drinks will stay chilled to the tempera-ture that best suits you.”

Faulk also suggests asking if outdoor refrigeration can be left outdoors all year, even during the winter.“Several manufacturers sug-

gest bringing the appliances indoors during the winter,” he said. “They’re difficult to re-move in the fall and even hard-er to replace and make level in the spring. It’s just easier on homeowners if they have a unit that can be kept outside

With the right appliances, you can do some great grilling and other kinds of cooking in the great outdoors.

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Hot Bathroom Trends for 2020

Adding or remodeling a bathroom is a popular home improvement project in 2020. Whether it’s a simple powder room, a useful three-quarter or a grand master bath, it’s worthwhile to research the top trends so you can create a space that is functional while also increasing your home’s overall value.

S e n s a t io n al s h o w e r s — When it comes to bathing options, showers are the focus. For instance, four in five homeowners upgrade the shower during a master bath-room renovation (83%) and over half increase the shower

size (54%), found the most recent U.S. Houzz Bathrooms Trends Study. Some home-owners are eliminating the tub altogether, adding multiple showerheads and steam fea-tures for maximum relaxation.

Unique locations — A home-owner’s bathroom location desires are no longer limit-ed to the property’s existing plumbing and drainage sys-tems. Saniflo technologies use above-floor plumbing with features such as a macerat-ing toilet and drain pumps that can be hidden in closets or behind walls. This means previously impossible spac-

es — such as in garages, pool houses and attics — can now be transformed into stunning bathrooms. The Saniaccess3 is a smart choice for full baths, and the Saniaccess2 is ideal for powder rooms.

Freestanding tubs — For those homeowners who still enjoy a good soak, say good-bye to jetted tubs with apron surrounds. Freestanding tubs are the ultimate in luxurious bathing, providing a focal point that draws the eye in any bathroom while also creating an airy feeling in the space. If a homeowner wants to install a freestanding tub where no

drainage currently exists, a Saniflo system is an affordable way to complete the project in less time. Learn more at www.saniflo.com.

Color and styles — After avoiding white color palettes for some time, white on white is back in 2020, offering a clean look with sleek appeal. Mixed materials are often used to add visual interest, such as a tasteful blend of wood and metallics in the vanity or hardware choices. Contem-porary styles with clean lines and open spaces are key char-acteristics of the modern bath-room. When a splash of color is called for, blues dominate the cool tones and salmons often infuse warm hues.

Vanities and tops — Vanities vary in size and shape depend-ing on space. Designs tend to be modern or transitional, with elements of interest such as sliding doors that mimic the barn-door trend. Floating vanities are favored, adding an upscale feel that opens the space. Vanity tops are made from a host of materials: as granite loses steam, quartz, marble and concrete are in-creasing in popularity. Finally, when space allows in a master bath, double sinks are a must.

Flooring — Ceramic and por-celain tile is often the choice for the modern homeowner who can customize tile with

any design they want. Large tiles are less desired, with smaller mosaic options a com-mon choice for personalization. For those who feel tile is too hard or cold, engineered vinyl is a leading choice. It can be made to mimic the look of wood surprisingly well, but can handle the moist environ-ment that typically comes from a bathroom.

Smart technologies — Tech-nological enhancements have entered virtually all aspects of life, and the bathroom is no exception. This is more than just streaming music to water-resistant speakers. In 2020, more homeowners de-sire digital shower controls allowing temperature adjust-ment and flow of the water through voice commands. For those with the funds, smart toilets open and close by sen-sor and are self-cleaning. An-other growing tech trend is chromatherapy — the use of color to enhance and inspire mood — with technologies used to illuminate tubs and shower spaces.

Every year brings with it trends in home design. For 2020, the bathroom is a stand-out space with customizable features that simplify and beautify life. If a bathroom addition or remodel is in your future, keep these ideas top of mind. H –BPT

Spring (Duct) Cleaning

Two out of three American homes get a thorough cleaning at least once a year, reports the American Cleaning Institute, often in the springtime.

A Problem — That can be a healthy thing to do, but there’s one place even the most fastid-ious families can forget: the air ducts. This can be a problem in homes with pets, plants, or people with allergies. Dirty fil-ters let dust, dander, allergens and mold spores in. So do leaks around duct joints. In a typical six-room home, up to 40 pounds of dirt — including dangerous chemicals and other pollutants

— is created annually through everyday living. The contam-inants cause the heating and cooling system to work harder, use more energy and wear out faster. That can cost you money

— the U.S. Department of Energy

says 25 to 40 percent of the en-ergy used for heating or cooling a home is wasted.

An Answer — Fortunately, you can fix this. Have the ducts cleaned regularly by a mem-ber of the National Air Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA). NADCA members possess gener-al liability insurance, are trained and tested regularly, sign on to a code of ethics, and must clean and restore your heating and cooling system in accordance with NADCA standards, so they provide a high level of security.

Learn MoreFor further facts on having

healthy air in a healthy home, go to www.BreathingClean.com. To find a NADCA mem-ber nearby, go to http://nadca.com/en/prosearch/all and enter your zip code. H –NAPS

all year long.”While some think a cabinet is

a cabinet, Faulk said not all are created equal. “Look for cabin-etry that has a way of keeping the elements out, full-extension shelves and all its parts made of stainless steel,” he said.

To protect from rain and the elements, weather-tight cabine-try is another good investment. There are different ways to keep the inside of a cabinet dry, including magnetic gas-kets that create a seal, or rain gutters — which are built into Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet’s cabinetry — that surround the door and drawer openings to channel water away.

Whether you’re adding a

grill and counter space to your backyard or building a ful-ly-equipped outdoor kitchen, incorporating design funda-mentals is key. It will ensure that your family and friends will have a truly memorable experience — every time, for years to come.

Insider TipsThe smallest details make a

big difference in how an out-door kitchen works. Here are some of Faulk’s favorite insid-er tips that make an outdoor kitchen even better.

On the Edge — A drip edge is a narrow, shallow groove cut into the underside of the countertop. Its purpose is to prevent water

from curling under the counter and into cabinets. By cutting a 1/8 inch-deep groove that’s just 1/4 of an inch from the counter edge, a barrier is created that interrupts water from making its journey under the counter and into your cabinets.

Pump It — If it’s going to cost too much to run a water line to the outdoor kitchen, but you still want a sink and running water to wash veggies and other items, use an RV pump.

“I know it seems unorthodox, but I have seen where this has been a really economical and efficient solution to having running water without the ex-pense of running a water line,” said Faulk. H –NAPS

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Easy Home Remedies for Just About Everythingby MS. SAGE

I love to simplify my life in any way that I possibly can. When I find a cool new use for an everyday product, it’s like having two products in one. Many of these are based on my own personal experience, although quite a few of them have been suggested to me over the years.

DISCLAIMER: Do not use ANY of these methods with-out consulting with a doctor, contractor, veterinarian, home maintenance expert, gardener, beautician, or other professional before trying them. Use them at your own risk! Your results may vary; what works for me or other people may not work for you. Be careful and stay safe!

That said, I hope you will enjoy reading some of these interesting tips!

AROUND THE HOUSE:Dryer lint makes awesome

fire starters! To make your own fire starters, fill empty paper towel rolls, toilet paper rolls, or sections of a cardboard egg carton. Pour a tiny bit of melted wax over them and let the wax harden. These work great!

If your hands smell from chopping onions or garlic, or you’ve been using bleach and want to neutralize the smell, squeeze some fresh lemon juice over your hands, rub vigorously for a minute or two, then wash your hands as usual.

When a light bulb breaks in-side the socket, try removing it with an apple or potato. Make sure you’ve turned off the light switch or disconnected the plug. Stick the potato or apple into the broken glass, and unscrew. It’s safe and works well.

Two “green” ways to clear a sink or tub drain. Use half a cup of baking soda, followed by half a cup of vinegar. Let the drain sit for 20 to 30 minutes,

and rinse thoroughly with very hot water. For a more exten-sive drain-opener, try a cup of baking soda followed by a cup of salt, and 3 quarts of boiling water. You may need to do this more than once, but it’s an easy, earth-friendly way to get that clogged drain moving again!

Dryer sheets will keep your vehicles or small rooms and closets smelling fresh. Just place a dryer sheet inside the room overnight. By the next day, it’ll smell clean and lovely.

Fabric softener can be used as a wallpaper remover. Brush it onto your wallpaper, and peel it off your walls.

When clothing zippers are stuck, “write” on the zipper and its teeth on both sides, several times, with a pencil. The graph-ite will lubricate the zipper and make it work again!

Squeaky door hinges and cabinets are no problem when

you have cooking spray. Simply spray it on the hinges, wait 10 or 15 minutes to allow the oil to penetrate the hinges, then wipe them down or wash them. You can also try this trick with shaving cream or old-fashioned Pledge spray.

If your wooden doors get stuck and are tough to open and close, use a bar of soap. Rub the soap along the edges of the door to make it stick less.

Bothered by paint fumes? Re-duce some of the stink-factor by adding a teaspoon of flavored extract to a gallon of paint. Va-nilla works well, but lemon is nice too.

To remove paint from skin after a painting project, use Avon’s Skin-So-Soft.

If the screws in your eyeglass-es or sun glasses are always coming loose, use clear nail pol-ish to keep them in place — just add a small drop to the screws before you tighten them. It will

keep them in place much longer.Use a back scratcher to re-

move dryer lint from your lint trap when it has become stuck.

Store candles in your freezer to keep them burning longer! Use a dab of rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball to clean them when they get dusty or dirty (MAKE SURE they are complete-ly cool, and don’t light them until they are 100% dry!).

To keep candles from burning up the candleholder, spray them with a bit of cooking spray.

My grandma’s secret... If you have dentures or a removable bridge, soak them in a glass of warm water with just a cou-ple of drops of bleach every now and then. Leave overnight, and be sure to rinse and brush them very well before wearing. It makes your “teeth” pretty and white, but it also sanitizes them to neutralize bacteria, which can cause bad breath and oral infections. H – Yahoo!

Make Room for Your Passions: How to Maximize Your Garage Space

Did you know over half of Americans (59%) feel that en-gaging in hobbies helps relieve stress? This was one finding in a survey of over 3,000 Americans conducted in 2017 by Kelton Global on behalf of Gladiator, the nation’s leader in custom-izable garage and household organization solutions.

While work and family obli-gations may prevent many from pursuing their favorite activities, the survey revealed that anoth-er factor acting as a roadblock was having enough space to store equipment or supplies needed for hobbies. Whether you love biking, crafts or other activities, chances are you need easily accessible space to store your gear.

Here’s where your garage comes in. The same survey found that 3 out of 4 Americans prioritize storage as the leading use for their garage — but that 28% of Americans can’t even fit a car in their garage because of the clutter.

What’s the solution? Get mo-tivated to optimize your storage space so you can easily access all the things you love to do. Once you’ve rid yourself of the clutter, you can start clearing out even more floor space for your vehicle, woodworking

bench, arts and crafts or drum kit for your garage band.

Here are some smart ways to make the most of your garage.

Figure Out Your NeedsFirst, determine how much

room your vehicles take up, then map out how much floor

space you’ll need for any other items, such as a work bench or space to maneuver items you use frequently. Group the items you want to store in your garage according to category, then get ready to create more storage possibilities for all your gear.

Optimize Your WallsTake a good look at all the

wall space that’s currently being unused in your garage. Fortu-nately, there are solutions for your walls that don’t involve building bulky shelving that further encroaches on your floor space. For example, the Sports Caddy GearTrack Pack by Glad-iator can hold much more than just basketballs and baseball bats. It installs easily on the wall and includes a ball caddy, which holds up to 25 pounds, that you can use for anything from helmets to sleeping bags, bags of potting soil or other bulky items you want kept off the floor. It also has two scoop hooks for heavier sports gear, backpacks, purses, garden tools and more.

Foldaway Storage SolutionsAnother versatile option is

to use a storage product that can transform from a wall -installed storage cabinet to a

sturdy work surface. Gladiator’s Ready- to -Assemble Foldaway Work Station provides both a space- saving storage cabinet and a functional work surface that can be mounted to their GearTrack or GearWall for easy wall storage. The versatile work station can be used as a garden-ing center, paint station or as a cabinet for power tools.

Look UpThere’s another area of your

garage that is most likely un-derutilized — the overhead space.

To safely use overhead stor-age space in your garage, you’ll need a very secure, heavy-duty solution like the steel Over-head Storage Rack made by Gladiator, which has a weight capacity of 750 pounds spread across 96 cubic feet of storage space. The unit is flexible, and its height can be adjusted so you can lower the rack for eas-ier access.

With smart solutions that use every area of your garage both safely and efficiently, you can make the most of your garage this year. Optimizing your ga-rage storage space allows you to make more room in your life

— for all the things you really love to do. H –BPT


Bringing the Indoors Out: 2020 Outdoor Living Trends

2020 outdoor living trends are all about enjoying your back-yard alfresco — but with the comfort and ease you expect from your indoor spaces. To-day’s outdoor spaces are trans-forming into an extension of the home. The current outdoor design also takes into account the look and feel of your entire home, including the interior and exterior, building materials and surroundings.

Connecting With Nature: Biophilic Design

Biophilic design is achieved when natural elements are incorporated into the space, helping people feel connected to the natural environment. It creates a calm, tranquil space and reduces stress. Biophilia makes sense for indoor urban environments needing to bring the outdoors in, but how does it work when you’re already outside?

Biophilic design for outdoor spaces means integrating nat-ural elements with constructed elements to create a harmo-nious space. A plant wall or raised garden bed can integrate greenery and pops of color with the built elements of your out-door space. It also means using natural materials, like wood and stone, to complement the surrounding environment.

Create greener, more sus-tainable spaces to celebrate the environment, which can help encourage pollinators, grow healthy food and forge a co-hesive outdoor space. You can also use materials such as Bel-gard’s permeable pavers, which

allow water to drain through the surface, replenishing the soil and aquifers beneath your path, walkway or driveway.

More Than Just a GrillToday’s homeowners want

much more than a grill in the backyard. With aspirations to cook and entertain guests out-doors with everything the best outdoor kitchen can offer, the possibilities are endless — from grills to cooktops and ovens or even a wine cooler and an outdoor bar.

Homeowners also have many options when it comes to the design and price point of their outdoor kitchen. Some may lean toward a grill island, adding prep and storage space to their grilling station, while others might create a full-on outdoor kitchen with a grill, smoker, refrigerator, sink, seating area and more.

Either way, homeowners can get a feel for exactly what their space will look like before breaking ground through Bel-gard’s design resources. The Belgard Design Studio takes a simple sketch, some dimen-sions and a couple of photos and turns it, using design soft-ware, into 3D animations and virtual reality experiences to give homeowners a sense of the finished product in their backyard.

Sleek, Modern DesignWhile it may seem contrary

to the more organic approach of biophilic design, the con-temporary trend toward sleek, modular furniture can enhance

your outdoor space.Modular, sectional pieces

with clean lines and streamlined design can be arranged and re-arranged to accommodate any natural elements you want to incorporate in your space, or to handle different numbers of guests when entertaining.

The minimalist approach to furnishings also allows the natu-ral elements around you to take center stage.

Multifunctional SpacesWhether your home is in an

urban area with limited green space, or you want to optimize your outdoor living, get cre-ative:• Add vertical planters• Hang hammocks for lounging• Create built-in seating• Build raised garden beds

Here’s where some of that modular seating can come in handy, too. Some urban homes

make good use of their front porches and yards, instead, which invites more neighbor-hood engagement and a feeling of community.

Entertaining Both Night and Day

Regardless of the time of day — or year — you and your fami-ly can relax comfortably in your outdoor sanctuary, thanks to modern technology and the lat-est outdoor installations:• LED lighting is installed in

a variety of ways. You can install strips of light and/or spotlights, even using multi-

ple colors, to add flair at night.• In the harsh sunlight, large

umbrellas and movable shade walls or screens can keep your space cool and more comfortable.

• For cooler climates, an out-door fireplace provides heat and light for cozy evenings in the yard.Whether you have a straight-

forward vision for a patio or dream of elaborate outdoor liv-ing spaces, these ideas can help you create your oasis. For more information on how you can up-grade your outdoor space, visit Belgard.com. H –BPT

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Season’s Cleanings — Tips to Keep Your Home Clean and Clutter Free

After a long winter, spring is finally in sight. Before the season is in full bloom and out-door chores pile up, take ad-vantage of spring showers to tackle the indoors first with easy home cleaning and organizing projects. To get your home in tip-top shape, start by break-ing down your to-do list room by room, so you can create an easily achievable goal that will leave your house looking fabu-lous and you feeling refreshed.

Restore Beauty in the BathThe bathroom may be one of

the smallest rooms in the house, but it can also be the one with the biggest mess. Vanities often become a magnet for clutter. Everything, from towels to toi-letries, curling irons to cotton balls, can take over this space and make cleaning a nuisance. Start by reducing your items. Marry any of your multiple con-tainers of the same product into one container. Then, recycle the empty containers to create more space.

Once your cleaning is com-plete, add drawer organizers, baskets and other accessories to neatly store all necessities. Then add towel bars — such as the new Moen Ashville 18-inch towel bar available in a brushed nickel finish at The Home Depot

— robe hooks and shelves as they are easy, inexpensive and decorative additions to help pre-

vent items from ending up on the floor or countertop.

Clean and Clever KitchensNext, move to the kitchen, a

favorite gathering place ... and one of the dirtiest rooms in the house. Begin by sorting through cupboards to weed out any un-used products, such as special-ized appliances, expired pantry foods and containers with miss-ing lids. If it’s broken or hasn’t been used in a year, it’s time to get rid of it. You’ll instantly achieve valuable cabinet storage

— as well as eliminate objects that collect dust and bacteria.

Now, start from the top and give your kitchen a thorough cleaning — including tops of cabinets and appliances — and finish with a good scrubbing of the floors. Finally, focus on updating the germiest area of the kitchen — the sink. There are typically more than 500,000 bacteria per square inch in the sink drain alone, accord-ing to Health Magazine. And that doesn’t include regularly touched items, such as your sponge and faucet.

Help inhibit the growth of stain- and odor-causing bacte-ria, mold and mildew with the new Moen Walden single-han-dle kitchen faucet featuring Mi-croban antimicrobial protection. Microban technology is built into the faucet finish, so it works continuously, even between

cleanings, and won’t wash off or wear away — which can help keep the faucet cleaner, longer.“By featuring Microban an-

timicrobial technology on our faucet finish, we hope to help homeowners spend more time enjoying their home ... and less time cleaning and worrying

about stains and odors,” says Andrea Conroy, director of retail marketing for Moen.

Refreshed Laundry RoomThe laundry room, since it is

often located near the frequently used garage entry, can become a catch-all for everything from

cleaners to coats, and shoes to shop vacs. Free yourself of this clutter by organizing and giv-ing everything its proper place. Items often get stashed on the horizontal surfaces — such as the floor or on top of the wash-er and dryer — so look to the vertical surfaces of the room to create new, more appropriate places.

Adding wall cabinets is an ideal place to add storage (and keep things neatly hidden). Wall hooks dedicated to each family member can neatly hold coats, scarves and bags. Install-ing shelves in the coat closet can provide additional room on top and below the garment bar. Over-the-door storage racks can house frequently used items, such as brooms or shoes.

With a few upgrades and or-ganization to key rooms, your home will look its best and the new-found organization will en-ergize your spirit just in time to enjoy the spring season. H –BPT

Help inhibit the growth of stain- and odor-causing bacteria, mold and mil-dew with the new Moen Walden™ single-handle kitchen faucet featuring Microban antimicrobial protection.

Good Looks or Good Sense? Home Designs That Don’t Make You Choose.Ever purchased a great-look-

ing faucet only to find you can’t easily turn it on with one hand? Or discovered that you can’t stand to sit for more than a few minutes on that new sofa that looked so great in the showroom? If so, you have experienced comfort and practicality sacrificed on the altar of aesthetics.

Increasingly savvy consum-ers aren’t satisfied with the idea they must choose between practicality and good looks, and their rejection of the no-tion is fueling one of the hot-test new design trends. Smart manufacturers are responding, creating innovations that are driven by how people truly use products, and not just by how those products look.

The marriage of ergonom-ics and beautiful design has a place in every room of the house. If you are looking to incorporate this sensible trend into your home, here are some ideas to get you started:

Beautiful BathroomsMany people consider their

bathroom a place of relaxation and look for products with timeless styling, superior per-

formance and inclusive design. Water conservation is an in-creasingly key concern, but it’s important to know that high-ef-ficiency products don’t have to lack aesthetic and functional grace.

TOTO’s Neorest 700H toi-let perfectly melds efficient practicality with good looks, underscoring the manufactur-er’s commitment to improving people’s lives, which it calls People-First Innovation. A dual-flush system uses just a single gallon of water for a full flush and eight-tenths of a gallon for lighter flushes — making the toilet super-efficient and planet-friendly. The 700H does not skimp on beauty ei-ther, with an elegant, clean, simple and timeless appearance inspired by long-view trends in architecture and global design.

Ease of use is vital in a bath-room faucet, leading many peo-ple to prefer lever handles over knobs. While levers can often have an industrial look, new options such as TOTO’s Con-nelly Lavatory Faucet blend the simplicity of a lever with sophis-ticated design. WaterSense la-beled, it consumes a responsible 1.5 gallons per minute without

sacrificing performance and is available in polished chrome, polished nickel and brushed nickel. Visit www.totousa.com to learn more.

High-Functioning KitchensThe heart of any home, the

kitchen is another room that cries out for a perfect blend of attractive style and sensible practicality.

While today’s appliances use sleek style to complement a variety of decorating themes, the emphasis on functionality is apparent in improved ener-gy-efficiency and must-have features like dual cooling sys-tems, full-width pantry draw-ers, and multiple freezer draw-ers. Dual cooling systems keep the air in the freezer separate from the air circulating in the refrigerator portion of the unit. Full-width pantry drawers pro-vide ample room for storage of entire deli trays, boxed pizza or oversize platters.

As one of the largest design surfaces in a kitchen, counter-tops must do double-duty as a design feature and functional workspace. Beautiful coun-tertop options, like granite or

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For Kitchens and Baths, Stone Really Rocks

Homeowners thinking about creating or remodeling their indoor or outdoor spaces may want to consider these ideas from noted interior designer Courtney Babineaux.

Don’t be afraid to take some risks. While your space needs to be a combination of both form and function, it also needs to speak to who you are. Babineaux recommends filling it with things you love, that represent your travels and interests, and make it a place that you can’t wait to get home to.

She also recommends using natural stone wherever pos-sible. Whether interior or ex-terior, anytime you can use a natural material within a space, you’re giving a feeling of authenticity and unique-ness, very much like a fine piece of art. The color vari-

ations and imperfections are not flaws, but rather unique touches that make your space an original.

When designing an interior space, all the elements within that room — natural stone, furnishings, paint, fabrics — should have a harmonious feel in both style and color. Whenever possible, select a hue from the color variation of the stone and use that as an accent shade. For example, if there’s a copper vein in the granite on your kitchen coun-tertops, add accents such as a copper vent hood.

The stone should also work with the surrounding elements. For example, an exotic gran-ite countertop typically has a lot of color variation, so you may want something more subtle on the floor. By the same token, the colors should

be harmonious. For example, you may want to pair a dark gray or dark green-colored soapstone countertop with a lighter-hued travertine.

Today’s color trends of grays and “greige” are still going strong, and light-colored stone countertops coordinate well with those shades. Light-er stones also pair well with darker cabinets for a high-con-trast look and serve as a nice backdrop for the strategic use of color in fabrics and acces-sories.

For areas like media rooms, wet bars and powder rooms, where there’s an opportunity to make a statement, you can take more of a style risk, such as backlit natural onyx.

In home design today, Babin-eaux says, the exterior is often an extension of the interior. Out-door living spaces are decorated

to coordinate with the interior color palette, and the same ma-terials used in the kitchen and family room areas are carried outdoors. When choosing natu-ral stone for your exterior, you will want to consider materials that hold up to the exposure

of natural elements like water, sunlight and freeze-thaw cy-cling. Consult with knowledge-able staff at your local stone yard about where and how the stone will be used to assist in making appropriate material choices. H –NAPSA

Silver Pearl Leathered Granite Perimeter and Mont Blanc Honed Quartzite Island. (Stoneshop)

solid surface countertops made from a blend of acrylic and polyester, provide durability and enduring beauty.

Livable Living RoomsTwo ambiance-boosting pop-

ular living room features — fireplaces and entertainment systems — have also trended toward efficiency, usability and beauty. For creating an inviting atmosphere, it is hard to beat the appeal of a fire-place. Wood-burning fireplac-

es are notoriously inefficient and messy, while early gas models were only marginally more efficient and lacked the glow of a natural wood fire. Modern fuel-efficient fireplaces provide the best of both worlds, using a variety of innovations. For example, shallow fireboxes reflect more heat into a room, and EPA-rated fireplaces draw outside air into the fireplace to fuel combustion.

Home entertainment systems that feature big-screen TVs

and surround-sound speakers can use a significant amount of energy too. Fortunately, it is possible to put together a more energy-efficient, beautiful system if you choose options like power-sipping LED TVs, en-ergy-efficient speakers or even a system that monitors power usage.

A trend that looks like it’s here to stay, home designs that emphasize usability as much as beauty promise to have timeless appeal. H –BPT

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Light Solutions: What to Do When Your House Feels Like a Cave

A house with ample windows can win your heart with si-lent promises of sun-drenched rooms and warm breezes waft-ing through open windows. The truth, however, is that even a home with windows galore can have rooms that feel dark and cave like.

Some of the most-loved as-pects of modern design — open, expansive floor plans, wood flooring in darker tones, walls of windows — may leave portions of a room dazzled with sun and other parts dim and poorly lit. For example, a room with a wall full of picture windows will often lack windows on other walls. Near the windows, you’ll get plenty of sunlight and some glare, but the natural light might not make it to the far corners of the room — especially if it’s

a large space like a great room.What’s more, interior spac-

es like powder rooms, laundry rooms, mudrooms and closets often have no windows at all, making them feel small and dark. No one wants rooms that look like caves — not even if your house has an actual “man cave” or “woman cave” in it!

Fortunately, a few smart dec-orating tricks and some bud-get-friendly, high-impact en-hancements can help brighten rooms and relieve that cavelike feeling.

Sunlight SolutionsOf course, the sure-fire way to

get more light into a room is to add more windows, but that’s not always a practical or cost-ef-fective solution. Instead, look for alternative ways to bring

more sunlight into a room.Daylighting systems can bring

sunlight from a rooftop down into a room, allowing natural light to illuminate dark spac-es where light from windows can’t reach. For example, the Solatube Daylighting System captures daylight with a rooftop dome. A highly reflective tube funnels light inside the home, where a decorative fixture on the ceiling spills the natural light into dim areas. The tube fits between rafters, so there’s no need to cut through critical structures, do frame work or make repairs to sheetrock.

An options light kit provides electric illumination on cloudy days or at night. The included integrated solar-powered night-light provides gentle, low-level illumination at night, and qual-ifies the entire system, plus in-stallation, for a 30 percent feder-al tax credit. With the tax credit, Solatubes start at less than $500 installed, making them a cost-ef-fective option for any room in the house, and especially in master baths, powder rooms, mudrooms, hallways and laun-dry rooms. To learn more, visit Solatubedaylighting.com.

Another option is to amplify the sunlight coming into the room. Strategically positioning mirrors can help reflect natural light to dark corners. What’s more, a large mirror mimics the feeling of a window, making rooms feel bigger and brighter.

Window DressingMaximizing the amount of

light that comes in through the windows you do have is easy. Keep curtains light and airy, and use blinds or shades to con-trol the amount of light coming from the window. Install curtain rods 2 feet wider than windows so that when curtains or drapes are open, they don’t block any of the window or the light com-ing through it.

You can also “dress” walls to mimic the look of windows. For example, if you have a windowless powder room, add-ing a transom above the door can help the room feel bigger while borrowing light from adjacent rooms. The tactic of borrowing light can also work if you’re able to put a pass through between a closed off room and an adjacent one that has windows.

Decorating TricksFinally, don’t overlook the

power of decor in making a room feel bright and welcom-ing. Light-hued walls of white, cream or pale yellow or blue not only make a room feel bigger, they evoke the visual qualities of natural light.

Large windowless rooms, like a basement playroom, can ben-efit from large framed art. Se-lect scenes that mimic the view you might get from a picture window, such as a seascape, mountain scene or city skyline.

Filtered overhead light can also create the effect of a nat-ural light source. For example, drape light-colored, opaque fabric above a bed, so that the cloth conceals the overhead light fixture. As the artificial light shines through the fabric, it will imitate the diffused look of natural light. H –BPT

The Relationship Between Paint and Mood

Painting is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to transform the look of a space. The colors homeowners choose for their walls can give rooms their own unique feel and even affect the moods of the people within them.

Finding the right shade for a bedroom or kitchen involves more than just selecting the first color that catches your eye. De-sign experts and psychologists alike say it may be worthwhile to choose a color that helps you feel good rather than just fol-lowing design trends. The paint color you pick may add energy to a space or create a tranquil retreat where you can unwind at the end of the day.

Blue — To create a spa-like environment and a more serene space, look to shades of blue in soft variations. Cool blues are soothing colors that can help lower stress levels and pro-mote sleep. That’s why blue is a frequent fixture in bedrooms and bathrooms. Just be advised that too much blue can make a room appear cold and stark, so balance out blue with some warmer accents.

Orange — Many people do not immediately consider bright or-ange for their homes, but when used as an accent shade, or-ange can really brighten up a home. Orange is considered a shade that expands creativity and imparts a youthful appeal

to a space. Consider an orange accent wall or a burst of color with orange throw pillows. If pumpkin orange is a little too bold for you, tone it down by choosing a more pastel, peachy hue, which is equally warm and energizing.

Red — Red stimulates energy and appetite, which is why the shade is so popular in restau-rants and home dining spaces. Red is a good choice for social gathering rooms but may not be the wisest choice for a bedroom, as the color may prove over stimulating.

Green — Green can evoke composure and tranquility and works in any room of the

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house. Since green is the pri-mary color of nature, it also works well for those people who want to bring some of the outdoors inside and work with the fresh starts and new growth that green can inspire. To make green feel less sub-dued and sleepy, work with its complementary opposite, red, by using a few bold red accents here and there to balance out the tranquility of green.

Purple — People have long related purple to royalty, and this dramatic color can add a formal, regal aspect to a home depending on the hue. Purple

also may help stimulate the cre-ative side of the brain. In paler shades of lavender, purple can seem almost ethereal and spir-itual. Some designers suggest avoiding purple in a bedroom because that is a place you want your brain to rest rather than be stimulated.

Yellow — Few colors are more vibrant than yellow, which can help stimulate con-versation and make thoughts more focused. A luminous shade of yellow is an ideal way to make any space more welcoming and bright. Just use it sparingly, as too much yel-

low may not be a good thing. Yellow accents mixed with touches of purple can offer the balance needed to prevent yel-low rooms from overwhelming residents and guests.

Home decorators should keep in mind that colors can be blended to create the desired environment. A color scheme based on complementary col-ors, or those opposite on the color wheel, may fit. Otherwise, analogous color schemes, or those colors that are next to one another on the color wheel, can create a variation that suits your design needs. H –Metro

Latest Deck Trend: ‘Monster’ Size, Mega-Luxury

Move over mini — the new trend in decking is anything but small.

When it comes to the size of their decks, the majority of Americans feel bigger is better — as multiple surveys indicate decks are getting larger and more luxurious, RealtorMag re-ports.

Today’s decks dwarf the out-door spaces of decades ago, and blur the lines between indoor and outdoor spaces with features like full kitchens, dining and entertainment areas, says Kim

Katwijk, owner of Deck Builders Inc. in Olympia, Washington. Katwijk is a 20-year veteran of the deck-building business, and co-producer of the upcoming web series Outdoors Outdone.

Sizable ChangesKatwijk says the intersection

of two major home trends is driving the growth of “monster” decks: homes are getting larger and outdoor living has reached mainstream status.

Last year, more than half of all new homes were 2,400

square feet or larger, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s

“Characteristics of New Housing” report. In 1973, the average home size was 1,660 square feet. As homes grew, deck sizes have, too. RealtorMag reports one survey found that since 2014, the average deck size grew by 53 percent in the Northeast, to 406 square feet.

The Making of a ‘Monster’ Deck

So what makes a deck project “monster”? Size, design, materi-

als and amenities all combine in this nationwide trend.

Size — “Monster” decks are big — really big. Mark Kalady, a decking sales manager for TAMKO Building Products, Inc., says he’s recently seen residen-tial decks grow to 3,000 square feet. Depending on the ame-nities included, a deck 1,600-1,800 square feet could also be considered “monster.”

Kitchens/dining — Cooking and dining areas are among the most requested luxury fea-tures, deck builders say. Luxury grills, built-in pizza ovens and full-cook stoves and sinks are becoming more common.

Water/fire — Fire and water features such as hot tubs, lap pools, fireplaces and fire pits are part of the trend of bringing the indoors out. These focal points serve as relaxation, ex-ercise and entertaining stations.

Seating — Katwijk says “con-versational pits” designed spe-cifically for extended entertain-ing allow deck-users to enjoy

time together away from the cooking and dining areas.

Multi-s tor y — “Monster” decks often include multiple levels, with each level serving a different theme or intended use, such as dining, conversation, swimming, etc.

Technology — Many of today’s larger decks include living room areas equipped with big-screen TVs, wireless speakers and gam-ing systems. But the technology used on monster decks can ex-tend to retractable glass walls and skylights, and even the deck boards themselves. Katwi-jk says the technology behind man-made decking products like Envision composite lumber offers the luxury appearance of exotic woods, but with minimal annual maintenance.“People want an environment

where they can be outdoors, yet have all the creature comforts of their home — essentially creat-ing a space where they can do all the things that they love,” Katwijk says. H –BPTSize, amenities and even the materials used can make a deck a “monster.” This deck features multiple sitting areas,

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DIY Pressure Washing: How to Get Great Results

Clean siding and trim can do as much for a home’s curb appeal as fresh flowers, neatly trimmed hedges and a repaint-ed front door. You could scrub for hours trying to remove dirt, mold and mildew, or you could do the job more quickly and easily with a pressure washer.

However, if you decide to pressure wash your home’s sid-ing, trim, fence or other surfaces on your own, it’s important to choose the right equipment for the project, and to know the ba-sics of good pressure washing.

Pressure Washer BasicsPressure washers use power-

ful pumps to boost water pres-sure and force water through a special nozzle. The intense spray powers away dirt, grime and debris, and depending on the type and size pressure washer you choose, they can be great for both major and minor home cleaning projects. While professionals often use gas-fu-eled versions for home renova-tion projects, electric versions like those from Karcher are af-fordable, convenient, and easy to use and maintain for most around-the-home applications such as siding, driveways, fenc-es, patio furniture and vehicles.

Pressure washers use less water and complete cleaning jobs more quickly than simply scrubbing by hand. General-ly, the higher the PSI (pounds of pressure per square inch) the greater a pressure washer’s cleaning power. However, PSI is

not the only consideration when choosing a pressure washer.

You should also look for ease of setup and use, and availability of accessories like extensions and wands for the different proj-ects you might want to complete with your pressure washer. In addition to affordability, look for compact storage, an integrated detergent tank and ergonomic features such as an on/off pedal switch and tall folding handles. These features make it more comfortable to use a pressure washer and more convenient to store it when you’re done.

It’s also important to under-stand the type of detergent the washer will use in addition to water. Some cleaners might be too harsh for certain applica-tions. Look for biodegradable options that protect the environ-ment and the pressure washer itself. Never use bleach with a pressure washer, as this can permanently damage the pump.

How to Use a Pressure Washer

Pressure washers are pow-erful pieces of equipment, and you should always follow basic

safety practices, such as using eye and face protection, and the manufacturer’s instructions for use. Be aware that using too high a pressure setting or holding the nozzle too close to surfaces could cause damage. Further, there are some things you should never do with a pressure washer, including:• Never point the jet at people,

animals, windows or the pres-sure washer itself.

• Never stand on a ladder when using a pressure washer. The kick from the wand could cause you to lose your balance.

Instead, use an extension wand or second-story nozzle to clean overhead areas.

To clean siding on your home:• First, place drop cloths over

nearby shrubs and green-ery to protect them from the spray and detergent.

• With the washer set at low pressure, apply detergent, moving from top to bottom. Don’t allow the detergent to dry on the siding. Use a brush to loosen any stubborn dirt.

• Use clean water and a higher pressure setting to rinse off detergent, again moving from top to bottom.

• Use a sweeping motion to clean, and keep the nozzle at least 6 inches from the siding.

To clean cement, brick or stone:• Whether it’s a cement retain-

ing wall, a brick path or a patio of stone pavers, first rinse the surface to be cleaned using fresh water.

• If you’re using detergent, apply it at a low pressure and work in smaller sections of about 25 square feet.

• Using a rotating turbo nozzle and a sweeping motion, clean by holding the nozzle 3 to 6 inches from the surface.Before tackling any project

with a pressure washer it’s a good idea to test the unit in a small, out-of-the-way spot to ensure you won’t damage the surface you want to clean. To learn more about pressure washers and how to clean items around your home, visit www.kaercher.com. H –BPT

Smart Ways to Redesign the Interior of Your Homeby HAMPRY GOMES

Most homeowners want to achieve something unique with their homes, but of course there are many constraints with re-gards to budget and ideas. If you have been thinking of re-designing your homes interior, there are some very essential aspects that you need to consid-er. Instead of being the cautious homeowner, you need to be the smart one who knows the best ways to realize your design objectives, without going over your budget. Here are some ideas that will help you reno-vate interiors like a pro.

Make a PlanNo matter what kind of in-

teriors you are aiming for, it is essential to have a plan. Most contractors and designers who work with high-end residential architecture and interiors will suggest the same. Having a plan helps in minimizing waste of time and resources, and makes it possible to actually keep tab of the project and budget. With the plan, you will be able to keep better control of the entire job. Keep in mind that changes are inevitable as you start work-ing, so devise the plan in such a way that allows changes.

Hire a DesignerIt may seem that hiring a de-

signer is an extra expenditure in the first place, but the ben-

efits are endless. Make sure you hire a designer that has actually and personally built. The best designers work with homeowners to create the re-fined and sophisticated looks, which would be customized to their needs of functionality. At the same time, there are other considerations such as budget, lead time, material and labor procurement that can be han-dled by the designer’s team of project managers. Most people think that contractors and de-signers will end up spending more money on basic mate-rials and purchases, which isn’t true. A designer can get better deals and quality for the money for most things in the

first place, thanks to trade dis-counts and years of experience in the field.

Avoid ClutterMost designers nowadays sug-

gest the minimalist look where the focus is to bring tranquility with style, instead of heaping things upon things. Depending on the objectives of the interior plan, the designer may suggest getting rid of some of the items you already own, which isn’t a bad idea at all. Thinking of the losses? Don’t worry as good resale shops can help you get the best value for most things. In some cities, there are agents that will buy up your entire household for resale.

Focus on Smaller ElementsPracticing designers know that

the budget of the customer can have a huge impact on the project. This is the precise reason why they may suggest a level between complete gutting and superficial internal alterations. For example, the designer may suggest saving money on floor replacement by sanding and painting the old oak floor. The money saved can be used to buy new pieces of furni-ture. Make sure that you spell out your needs to the designer. Start by making a list of things to do and go over it with the designer.

With these ideas, you should be ready to roll! Create a new look for your home today! H –Artipot/Po Ku Design Build


Caring for a Freshly Sodded LawnSod, sometimes called turf,

can quickly turn a barren land-scape into a rich, thick carpet of green. Homeowners hoping to revive their lawns common-ly turn to sod as the quickest means to do just that. Howev-er, once the sod has been laid down, few homeowners may know how to keep it looking its best.

Sod is real grass that is grown on special farms. It is general-ly grown locally to avoid long transport times that could dry out the product. Sod is typi-cally sold in squares or rolls of grass that come with the roots and soil already attached. There may be some sort of thin back-ing material on the sod to keep the grass blades together.

Many homeowners turn to sod when growing lawn from seed becomes problematic or too time-consuming. Seeds can be blown around in the wind or be eaten by birds and other ani-mals before they have a chance to germinate.

Sodding a lawn is a major in-vestment, costing as much as $1 per two-foot square. Depending on the size of your lawn, this can be a costly job even before adding the cost of additional supplies, such as soil, fertilizer and tilling equipment. Many

homeowners who install sod want to ensure their investment lasts. Here are the main ways to care for and protect sod until it is fully established.• Once the sod has been laid

down, the lawn should be thoroughly soaked with water. Most experts recommend soaking it to a depth of 6 inch-es.

• It is important to establish a watering schedule to keep the sod moist. Water the sod to a depth of one inch every other day for the first three weeks to enable the roots to securely

establish themselves in the soil.

• Water the sod every other day unless the weather has been very warm. After four weeks you can generally go up to five days without watering as long as you transition slowly. The sod will change colors if it is not getting enough water. Never let the lawn turn yellow, otherwise you may have to cut out dead spots and re-sod.

• Wait two to four weeks before mowing the sod. Keep the lawn height to around two

Hot Trends in Kitchen Remodeling

Year after year, the most pop-ular home improvement project for American families remains the same: remodeling the kitch-en. Today, kitchen makeovers are more ambitious than ever, with homeowners willing to spend larger budgets to upgrade both the aesthetics and the func-tionality of what is, after all, the most used room in the house.“Many architects, designers

and homeowners are specifying hardwood as an essential part of any kitchen refresh,” notes Linda Jovanovich, of the Amer-ican Hardwood Information Center. “That’s because wood not only offers a wide variety of looks and design possibilities, it also exemplifies the kind of material today’s environmen-tally conscious consumer wants: One that’s renewable, sustain-

able, plentiful, durable and easy to work with — all of which makes it an excellent return on investment.”

Replacing tired old kitchen cabinets with stylish new ones is a favorite starting point, but there are several strategies to help maximize their impact. “I like to specify one type of wood for an entire kitchen — cabi-netry, furniture, millwork and flooring — but use different stains and finishes on each el-ement,” says New York design-er Laura Bohn. “That creates visual interest without losing a sense of overall unity.” In one all-walnut kitchen project, for instance, Bohn painted the Shaker-style cabinets a putty tone for a serene background. But she stained the wide-plank floor a darker shade than the granite-top island so that the latter stands out like a beautiful piece of furniture.

In a similar vein, a recent-ly completed 1920’s Bunga-low house renovation had quarter-sawn white oak used throughout for floors, interi-

or doors and kitchen cabinets. While the floorboards were light-ly white-washed and given a protective coating to create the look of bare wood, the base cab-inets, supplied by Plain & Fancy Custom Cabinetry, received a slightly darker cerused finish just different enough to distin-guish them from the rest of the woodwork. The oak wall cabi-nets were painted white to match the kitchen’s shiplap ceiling. “It’s peaceful rather than exciting,” said the homeowner. “And that’s exactly what we wanted.”

If you’re after a livelier ef-fect, you might consider anoth-er emerging trend: mixing up wood species and cabinet-door styles. Wellborn Cabinets demonstrated this strategy at a recent kitchen and bath show

where their Rustic Global Spice Kitchen incorporated not only two types of hardwood — oak and maple — but also three door styles each with its own stain. “To make this look suc-ceed, you or your designer will need to find common stylistic threads running through the various elements — underlying kinships of shape, color, texture and proportion that will pull the disparate parts together into a unified whole,” advises San Antonio-based designer Melissa Morgan. “It’s takes a certain amount of confidence, but the results can be spectacular.”

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inches to ensure that it won’t scald in the sun.

• After two months of estab-lished sod growth, aerate the sod to keep the soil from being too compact and to en-able oxygen and nutrients to get into the soil.

• Keep children and pets off of the sod while it is establishing itself.

• Fertilize the lawn every 50 to

60 days, beginning in March and ending in October.

• Inspect the sod for pests, which may include insects or problems like fungi or weeds. Treat accordingly with prod-ucts designed to remove pests.Using sod to establish a lush

lawn is a fast, albeit more ex-pensive option to sowing seeds. After a few weeks the lawn will be thick and secure. H –Metro

Spruce Up Your Home for Spring

Spring is a time of rebirth. A time when everyone shakes off the last chills of a long win-ter and sets goals to improve themselves. Maybe you plan to set a goal to lose weight, now that you can exercise outside, learn a new skill or get promot-ed. All of these are great ideas. But while you are striving to attain your personal goal, have you ever thought of setting a goal to refresh your home in a way that will have your friends talking?

Setting a home improvement goal is more common than you may think and you can make a dramatic improvement to your home with a complete remodel. You can take on several smaller projects - any time of the year - that will leave you loving your home all year long. Here are a few ideas to get you going.

A fresh coat of paint. Nothing reinvents a room like a fresh coat of paint. Yet many people put off painting a room because

they can’t afford professional painters and they don’t have time to do the job themselves. But you can achieve that pro-fessional quality finish at a frac-tion of the time and cost by vis-iting RentalHQ.com and renting your own paint sprayer. Use your sprayer to add a neutral color, which provides visual appeal and works with most furniture patterns, leaving you plenty of decorating options.

Change hardware. Faucets and cabinet hardware can quickly date a room. Replacing hard-ware can add beauty to your kitchen without adding a lot of extra cost. Be sure to find knobs and pulls that are the same size as the existing ones so you don’t have to re-drill the cabinets. Do this for any furniture and in any room for an instant decor face-lift.

Replace old tile. Outdated tile can make a bathroom look old and dull. Replacing it with new tile that is in style will give the space a rich, modern look. Tiling is a DIY project that anyone can tackle with the right tools. Rent the necessary items like a tile

stripper, a tile saw and a mortar mixer to keep your costs down.

Update curtains and blinds. Textiles play a major role in the overall decorating scheme of a room. New window treatments offer an inexpensive way to in-troduce bold color and patterns for an instant refresh. Pair your new curtains with decorative throw pillows for a striking im-pact to the living room.

Recreate your flooring. If your carpet doesn’t need to be re-placed but it could use a little re-freshing, cleaning your carpets will do the trick. If you can’t afford to hire professional carpet cleaners or you feel like taking on the project yourself, renting a carpet cleaner can give your carpets the professional look you’ve been dreaming of. And if you have hardwood floors that need to be refurbished, renting a floor sander is an excellent first step for this project.

Home improvement projects do not have to include a com-plete overhaul to provide a new look. These smaller projects will dramatically improve your home all year long. H –BPT

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