Page 4 - The Jewish Voice - December '20

Page 4, The Jewish Voice

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Daughter of Hamas University in Maryland, a certificate from the University of
Lustman has an undergraduate degree from Towson
Speaks at Chabad PBG California, Los Angeles, and participated in business skills
training at New York University. She was lead presenter at the
Chabad of Palm Future of Education Technology Conference earlier this year,
Be ach Ga rdens’ chosen from more than 10,000 applicants to present on “Using
Wi ndows t o t he Social Media to Create Excitement About Your School.”
World event went to
a dangerous place Shabbat Sababa
last month when they
welcomed Maya, the The Jewish Community Synagogue brought the
Jewish daughter of a feeling of Israel down to the Palm Beaches for one night.
senior high-ranking and soon married her to an Arab. Her new husband beat her Guests enjoyed an Israeli-
Hamas official. constantly. When she was six months pregnant, at the age of style service followed by a
The large crowd 17, she dared venture next door at night without permission. traditional Israeli Shabbat
on Zoom listened When her husband found out, he beat her in public, leaving dinner. Guest speaker Laizer
for nearly two hours her broken and bleeding on the floor. By the time he took her Raksin spoke about his life in
as Maya recounted to the hospital, her baby was dead and she needed to stay for Israel and involvement in the
her story filled with weeks in the hospital. All the while, her own family blamed IDF based in Hebron, Israel.
courage, pain, and destiny. She told of how her Jewish mother her for her irresponsible behavior.
was seduced by a young Arab who posed as a Jew. By the She told the story of how she made the decision to escape
time she realized who he really was, it was too late. She was and the daring manner in which she did it. She described
locked into a life with no rights or protections in an Arab the rejection she experienced from her own Jewish mother,
village, where all decisions were made by the men. When who wanted nothing to do with her, and how she eventually
Maya was young, her father decided to place her in a foster managed to lead a normal life in Israel.
home. When she was 15, her father welcomed her back home Maya found her way to Yad L’achim, a Jewish
organization that helps Jewish women and girls trapped
in Arab villages. Drawing on her personal experience, she
From the Rabbis from page 3 ventures into Arab villages seeking out other Jewish girls
who have no way to escape and helping them find their way
enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have to freedom. In fact, it was on one such daring expedition
taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, ‘Let that she met her Jewish husband, who is now the father of
us set a king over us like all the nations around us,’ be sure their three beautiful children.
to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses”
(Deut. 17:14–15). JFS Hires Director
By the end of Saul’s reign, the king of the Israelites of Marketing And
was a paranoid failure. He certainly did not create the
spiritual or physical safety for which the Israelites hoped. Communications
King David and Solomon were much better, but they also
had their problems, both personal and national. I think Danielle Lustman has
the lesson might be to always be wary of concentrated joined Ferd & Gladys
power; but also, that governing is always difficult both Alpert Jewish Family
for the leader and for the people. Service (Alpert JFS) as
As I think of the elections we recently experienced Director of Marketing and
and the upcoming transfer of power in our country, I am Communications. Most
reminded of the quote by Winston Churchill in November recently, she held the same
of 1947: “Many forms of Government have been tried, position at the Leon &
and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one Leona Brauser Maimonides
pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, Academy in Fort Lauderdale.
it has been said that democracy is the worst form of “I am thrilled to welcome
Government except for all those other forms that have Danielle Lustman to the
been tried from time to time.…” agency,” said Alpert JFS CEO Marc Hopin. “Her creative
Rabbi Paul Arberman is spiritual leader at Temple skills and social media expertise will bring added value to
Beth David in Palm Beach Gardens. our marketing and communications endeavors.” Local Happenings on page 5

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