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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is backing up a Jewish congressmans incendiary claim that he heard protesters scream Jew! at him during a September event in New Jersey.

Garden State Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer caused a stir during a Dec. 13 speech at Rutgers University in which he said he was set upon by anti-Semitic protesters on Sept. 20 as he and Raimondo made a series of stops in Bergen County promoting President Joe Bidens infrastructure bill.

The pair were greeted by around 100 hecklers in Glen Rock most of whom, Gottheimer claimed, came from the local chapter of the Working Families Party. The situation was intense enough that Raimondos security detail insisted the pair travel in the commerce secretarys vehicle.

They were going from store to store protesting and as we were going into the bakery someone from the crowd derisively screamed Jew!' Gottheimer said, adding that Raimondo heard the remark too and reacted with disgust. She couldnt believe it. I remember looking at her.

Raimondo told The Post this week she too heard the hateful jeers.

Anti-Semitism is wrong, reprehensible and unacceptable. I join Congressman Gottheimer in condemning these hateful attacks that have absolutely no place in our politics, Raimondo said.

Though a Democrat, Gottheimer is among his partys most moderate voices and his attacks on The Squad and progressives has long drawn activist ire. WFP endorsed his unsuccessful 2020 primary opponent Arati Kreibich who was at the protest herself.

The WFP refuted Gottheimers claim.

There is no place for antisemitism at WFP, and to be clear, if that ever happened at a WFP event, the person would have been rebuked instantly and asked to leave, said Sue Altman, the partys New Jersey state director. We have reviewed video footage from our protests and interviewed many, many participants in them, including Jewish WFP members. All the footage has been made available to the press. We found no sign of such an outburst. No one we spoke to witnessed any anti-Semitic speech, and most volunteered that theyd have shut down such behavior immediately.

The congressman had come to campus to voice his displeasure over a decision by the the part-time faculty union at Rutgers to support Hamas during their most recent round of hostilities against Israel.

Not long ago, I held an event in my district to talk about the benefits of the bipartisan federal infrastructure bill, only to have members of the Working Families Party disrupt the event by screaming Jew at me. What has our country come to? Gottheimer told students.

InsiderNJ, which covered the protest at the time, noted that things had been a bit impolite and that verbal insults were hurled at the congressman.

The Rutgers speech, nevertheless, circulated in Jewish circles and won praise from Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.

Congressman Gottheimer spoke movingly about the threat of anti-Semitism facing students on campus, and we applaud him for highlighting it.If the Congressman says he was the victim of an anti-Semitic remark we take him at his word, an ADL spokesman Jake Hyman said.

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Thanks to Paul Thomas Anderson, we can now glimpse the Haim familys Shabbat dinners.

Early on in Licorice Pizza, Andersons picaresque age-gap romance, which opened in theaters last week, Alana (Alana Haim), her two sisters Danielle (Danielle Haim) and Este (Este Haim) and her actual parents (Moti and Donna Haim) take their seats for some challah and wine. Until this point in the film there was little indication as to Alanas religious affiliation. By the end of the meal, we know shes Jewish. Kosher? Secular? Shul-going? These distinctions collapse after her boyfriend Lance (Skyler Gisondo) declines to say hamotzi.

I respectfully refuse, Lance, who is Jewish, tells Moti. My personal path has led me to atheism.

This remark is funny because its one heard from young people at Shabbat tables the world over. Its also a largely irrelevant point for much of Jewish practice. But explaining all the nuances of an ethnoreligion where faith is no prerequisite for identity could take an entire film. Anderson does it rather crassly in a few seconds.

Alana follows Lance outside and, there on the street, demands to know: What does your penis look like?

Lance is taken aback, if perhaps a bit curious as to where this line of questioning might lead. When he flounders a bit at a response, Alana is more direct: Is it circumcised?

It is.

Then youre a fing Jew! Alana screams.

Its reductive, certainly. But it holds a kernel of truth. One does not simply opt out of this congenital affiliation. Of course, if youre a Jew who converts to another faith, thats another matter, and Jews by choice were with us at Sinai. But in the case of Lance this flexible yet rigid formulation a Jew, obliged to do Jewish things regardless of belief applies. He is, no matter what his objections may be, a Jew. And so is Alana.

Licorice Pizza, which co-stars Cooper Hoffman as Alanas 15-year-old love interest (shes 25 in the film) nails the Valley vibe of the 1970s, returning Anderson to Boogie Nights territory. It is also, to date, Andersons most Jewish film, fascinated by the ways Haims real-life background might inform her character. Anderson, who directed Haims eponymous sister act band in the past and was anart student of their mother, Donna, is not just doing a drive-by ethnography. He understands how Jewishness has been commodified by Hollywood and remains a major source of insecurity, particularly among young women.

After the Shabbat scene, Hoffmans Gary Valentine (based on the teenage Gary Goetzman, who grew up to be Tom Hanks producing partner) takes Alana to meet an agent to see about her prospects as an actor. The agent immediately remarks on Alanas Jewish nose, which is becoming very fashionable. When asked to list special skills, Alana says her Israeli father taught her Krav Maga, or, as the agent calls it, Quickdraw McGraw. The agent could not be less interested to learn that Alana knows Hebrew.

Alanas fashionable nose can perhaps be traced to Barbra Steisand, whose onetime beau, a psychotic Jon Peters, appears as a character in the film, played by Bradley Cooper. Cooper remade the remake of the Peters-produced A Star is Born, which starred Streisand; both films are quite self-conscious when it comes to nose shape. Even if they are in vogue, Alana and Streisands noses are identified as Jewish, and therefore, limiting. The agents remark seems to plant a seed of doubt for Alana or just affirm something she already knows.

In a later scene Alana wonders whether she can play a guitar-playing hippie named Rainbow from Intercourse, PA. Im Jewish, she reasons to her potential costar.

Its a strange moment Im still thinking about. Alana, who has reduced Jewishness to a physical trait, and has had hers reduced in turn, wonders at the limits of what Jews can do and who they are. Of course she knows they can be atheists. She doesnt scoff at taking on the role of a Jew in a bikini selling waterbeds. But playing a hippie from rural Pennsylvania? She cant imagine it. Or maybe, knowing her own history, she just doesnt care to.

One of the only things that seems to spell out Alanas motivation is a resistance to falling into what is prescribed for and expected of her. But when shes offered a non-Jewish role, it gives her pause. And when an agent typecasts her as Jewish, she doesnt question it. Its who she is.

Its no wonder then that shed take Lance to task, despite her own rebellions and reinventions. Her personal path is just as meandering as his is, but Jewishness was always a part of it. Its not a destination, but a map to guide the way even down dead ends.

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Progressive Jews face a conundrum with respect to university diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. They earnestly support campus initiatives to attract students and faculty from a variety of backgrounds, learn different perspectives, elevate outcomes for the disadvantaged and reduce hate and bias. But it is also becoming painfully clear that many DEI staffers charged with pursuing these laudable goals arebetraying their mission, at least when it comes to Jews.

What are progressive Jews supposed to do when their political allies in promoting policies that mostly benefit non-Jews are also their enemies when it comes to protecting the interests of Jews?

The fact that DEI staff are organizing against Jewish interests is painfully clear to Jewish students who have directly experienced it on campus. It is becoming commonplace to hear claims, like thoseexpressedby a DEI committee at Stanford University, that because Jews, unlike other minority groups, possess privilege and power, Jews and victims of Jew-hatred do not merit or necessitate the attention of the DEI committee.

DEI staff are not just failing to protect Jews, thereby inviting antisemitic attacks; some are actively organizing and encouraging political campaigns against Jewish interests, especially with respect to Israel. Expressing criticisms of Israel, as many Jews in Israel and America do, does not constitute antisemitism. But according to the widely acceptedIHRA definitionof antisemitism, such criticism crosses the line when it applies a double-standard to Israel that other countries are not expected to meet, suggests that a Jewish homeland is a racist endeavor or compares Israeli actions to Nazi crimes.

We conducted asystematic analysisof the Twitter accounts of 741 DEI staff members at 65 universities to document whether there was evidence of antisemitism to support anecdotal claims about anti-Israel activity by DEI staff. We searched those accounts for all tweets, retweets or likes that referenced Israel or, for comparison purposes, China.We found that DEI staff are obsessed with Israel, communicating about the Jewish homeland almost three times as often as about the country that is actively interning their Muslim citizens. Tweets about Israel were also uniformly negative: 96% were expressing criticism. In contrast, 62% of the tweets referencing China were favorable.

One DEI staff person liked this tweet: Yall love to add the word liberal in front of the most evil things and its unhingedddd. Wtf is a liberal Zionist? Whats next? Liberal Nazi? Liberal colonizer? Liberal murderer? Liberal imperialist? Liberal fascist?

Another DEI staff person retweeted a classic antisemitic trope of ritual child murder: israel has a particular loathing for children. they target them with violence specifically and intentionally every single day. Yet another invoked the Nazi crime of genocide: what you need to understand is that these are entire BLOODLINES being wiped out. generations upon generations completely GONE. their indigenous history with them.

We are not sure whether the grossly disproportionate rate at which DEI staff attack Israel or the language with which they do so is more troubling. Regardless, the picture that clearly emerges from reviewing the Twitter accounts of DEI staff is an animus toward Jews that extends well beyond legitimate criticism of Israel or concern for human rights.

Progressive Jews on campus that weve spoken to are at a loss as to how to respond. They dont want to abandon the promotion of diversity and inclusion, but they dont want to be persecuted as part of that effort. Some attempt to escape this dilemma by prioritizing DEI ideology over their Jewish identity and minimizing their own Jewish attachments. But Jews shouldnt have to abandon who they are to advance worthy goals.

Diversity and inclusion can never be achieved by a DEI system that fails to recognize Jewish contributions to diversity or that fails to extend inclusion to Jews or any other minority group. Progressive Jewish students have to recognize that substituting one set of hatreds and biases for another that attacks Jews is not progress. Real progress can only be achieved when the same principles are applied equally to all groups.

Jewish students, alums and donors should demand that their support of university DEI initiatives is conditioned on Jewish interests not being subordinated or abandoned by those efforts. Jews dont deserve worse treatment and should reject any movement that claims to be seeking progress by doing so.

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In his best seller The Hare With Amber Eyes, the writer and ceramicist Edmund de Waal traces the journey of his Jewish family and their art collection from the late 19th century to the 21st. The book combines history and memoir with a kind of object-oriented ontology, drawing parallels between the diaspora of Jews after World War II and the Ephrussi familys dispersed possessions (many of them looted by the Nazis). It begins when the author inherits a collection of Japanese netsuke, palm-size carved sculptures dating from the Edo period that had been with his Ephrussi relatives for generations.

I want to know what the relationship has been between this wooden object that I am rolling in my fingers hard and tricky and Japanese and where it has been, he writes of the feeling of handling one of the netsuke. I want to be able to reach to the handle of the door and turn it and feel it open. I want to walk into each room where this object has lived, to feel the volume of the space, to know what pictures were on the walls, how the light fell from the windows. And I want to know whose hands it has been in, and what they felt about it and thought about it if they thought about it. I want to know what it has witnessed.

Admirers of the book can now get almost that close to the netsuke and other pieces of the Ephrussis collection in a compelling and immersive exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, also titled The Hare With Amber Eyes. Based on an earlier show at the Jewish Museum in Vienna (The Ephrussis: Travel in Time), it uses art, design, photography, sound and ephemera to re-create the familys cultured, sophisticated and at times extravagant life, and the efforts of various family members to salvage pieces of that life in exile.

The cleverly designed installation by Diller Scofidio + Renfro takes full advantage of the fact that the Jewish Museum was once a bankers private residence, playing up the architectural features that have been in place since the museum was the Felix M. Warburg House so as to evoke the Ephrussi homes. (De Waal worked with DS+Rs Elizabeth Diller, as well as the Jewish Museum senior curator Stephen Brown and associate curator Shira Backer.)

The installation is also closely modeled on de Waals storytelling, with a sound component that matches displays to readings of excerpts. There are large sections on fin-de-sicle Paris and early-20th-century Vienna, where the Ephrussi family maintained palatial homes and was socially and financially on par with the Rothschilds. (They were also bankers, although the family business originated with grain distribution in Odessa.)

And like the book, the show keeps circling back to the netsuke unveiling them in groups, with four different glass cases placed at intervals to underscore the endurance of these objects across a century of violence, discrimination and dispossession.

Also placed throughout the galleries are images taken this year by the Dutch photographer Iwan Baan, showing the interiors of the former family residences in Paris, which now houses law and medical insurance offices, and Vienna, recently the headquarters of Casinos Austria and now partially unoccupied with a Starbucks on the ground floor. In an image from Paris, ornate cornices are barely visible above rows of filing cabinets and stacks of paper; in Vienna, gilded, chandelier-lit rooms have empty bookshelves and bare curtain rods. With their attention to the banality of the present, these photographs keep the show from becoming the kind of story de Waal is anxious to avoid, some elegiac Mitteleuropa narrative of loss, as he writes.

In the installation, as in the book, the story of the familys collection unfolds from the late 19th century, and its most passionate art enthusiast: Charles Ephrussi, the Parisian art historian, critic, journal editor, Salon regular and friend to Degas and Manet. This distant relative of de Waal was so thoroughly enmeshed in artistic and literary circles that he appears in the background of Renoirs famous painting Luncheon of the Boating Party, overdressed for the occasion in a dark jacket and top hat, and was said to be an inspiration for Prousts character Charles Swann from In Search of Lost Time. These credentials did not stop the increasingly emboldened antisemites of his day from sniping at him, including Renoir, who described a Gustave Moreau painting in Charless collection as Jew Art, with an emphasis on its golden palette.

The Moreau is part of a salon-style installation here, which somewhat awkwardly combines actual paintings with sepia-tone reproductions. Mary Cassatts At the Theater, once in Charless collection and now at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, is here only as an image, as is Manets bundle of asparagus, commissioned by Charles (and part of a humorous exchange in which Manet, feeling that he had been overcompensated for the painting, sent Charles another painting of a single asparagus stalk). Berthe Morisots vigorously brushy Young Girl in a Ball Gown is on loan from the Muse dOrsay, accompanied by a snippet of Charless writing on the artist: She loves painting that is joyous and lively, grinds flower petals onto her palette in order to scatter them on her canvas with light and witty touches.

The Viennese branch of the family, established by Charless uncle Ignace von Ephrussi, is the focus of another gallery of art and ephemera much of it centered on the Palais Ephrussi, the absurdly big (in de Waals words) and equally opulent five-story home on the Ringstrasse designed by Theophil von Hansen, the architect of the Austrian Parliament. Hansens preparatory drawings for the buildings elaborate ceilings are on view, along with designs for the ceiling paintings Ignace commissioned from Christian Griepenkerl (the decorator of Viennas opera auditorium); among the scenes that adorned the ballroom are stories from the Book of Esther, in a nod to the familys religious and cultural heritage.

Ignace did not seem to have the same kind of eye for the art of his time as his nephew Charles did, preferring old masters and later works in that style by Netherlandish, German and Austrian artists; among the examples on view are the German artist Balthasar Denners portrait of an old woman and a muted street scene from 1870 by the Dutch landscape painter Cornelis Springer. Ignaces son and de Waals great-grandfather Viktor, who inherited the family business and the Palais Ephrussi, was more of a bibliophile. Viktors wife, Emmy, meanwhile, had a flair for fashion, as photographs of her in various formal outfits and costumes attest. (In one she is dressed as the Renaissance noblewoman Isabella dEste; in another she poses as a schoolmistress from a Chardin painting.)

Emmy was, however, the keeper of the netsuke, which she and Viktor had received as a wedding present from Charles and which she displayed in a vitrine in her dressing room. And according to family stories, it was Emmys maid, identified in de Waals book only as Anna although the catalog of the Vienna exhibition suggests, intriguingly, that no such person existed who protected the netsuke when the Gestapo marched into the Palais Ephrussi, stashing them in her apron pocket and later hiding them under her mattress. This show does not solve the mystery of Anna, or how the netsuke remained with the Ephrussis, but it presents document reproductions including a meticulous Gestapo inventory of the family home that make the extent and thoroughness of the looting painfully clear.

The wars dispersal of the family, with Edmunds grandmother Elisabeth (one of Emmy and Viktors children) landing eventually in England and her siblings taking up residence in America, Mexico and Japan, is represented in a cleverly designed gallery of family photographs surrounding a weathered attach case. Many of them relate to Edmunds great-uncle Iggie, a clothing designer turned banker who gave the netsuke a new home in Tokyo (incorporating them into fashionably Pan-Asian postwar interiors with low-slung sofas and Korean and Chinese artworks).

In general, the exhibition could have taken a more critical look at Japonisme, the Wests obsessive fascination with Japanese art and design objects, as de Waal does in his book. The show, in comparison, doesnt tell us much about the netsuke or what they may have witnessed before Charles acquired them, as a 264-piece collection, from a Parisian dealer. By the time we get to the eponymous hare with amber eyes, in the final gallery, we can only marvel at the preciousness of its raised paw, tucked ears and ever-alert expression.

But as a family portrait, or a look at how collections evolve over generations, the museum version of The Hare With Amber Eyes is deeply moving. At a time of so much loss, isolation and separation, its heartening to see the Ephrussis reunited, with one another and with their art.

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This is one of seven profiles of American Jews who fascinated us in 2021. Click here to see all seven and read an explanation of our Forward Shortlist.

You can cook a big, sloppy cheeseburger on TikTok and grab thousands of fans its the wide open frontier of food porn. But Jake Cohens 1.4 million TikTok followers and 597,000 on Instagram do not explain what makes him so special.

Theres a clue in the cookbook he published in March, Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes for the Modern Mensch, which spent a week on The New York Times bestseller list.

Growing up, I didnt really have a strong connection with my Jewish identity, wrote Cohen, who turned 27 this year. I felt as I think most young Jews in America do: indifferent.

That indifference melted away when Cohen discovered OneTable, a nonprofit that helps 20- and 30-somethings experience Shabbat dinner. (He has since joined the groups board.)

Cohen, who studied at the Culinary Institute of America, made traditional foods with his own twists. He added lemon zest, dill and wild mushrooms to kasha varnishkes; slapped pastrami between biscuits and gravy; and added pepper and salt to sufganiyot stuffed with Manischewitz-flavored jam.

When he met the man he would eventually marry, he bonded with his future mother-in-law over the familys Iraqi and Persian recipes, celebrating tahdig, crispy rice, and modernizing the breakfast staple sabich by stuffing it into everything bagel dough.

Traditional? Sometimes. Kosher? Not always. Authentic? The preparations might not be, but the stories behind them are.

I dont get hung up on rules, Cohen told me last spring during an Instagram Live where he walked through his husbands family recipe for hadji bada, chewy Iraqi almond cookies.

The recipes are pretty wonderful, but what sets Cohen apart is his joy. His is a kind of Full Acceptance Judaism that puts welcoming first.

We are the first generation of American Jews that get to look at Jewish identity and how we want to own it, celebrate it and modernize it, he said on Dan Pashmans podcast, Sporkful. Through the lens of Jewish joy and not Jewish trauma.

We asked the seven fascinating people on our Forward Shortlist to answer a few questions unrelated to the work they do.

What do you eat for breakfast?Cold brew with protein powder.

What app on your Smartphone can you not live without?Instagram.

Whats your earliest Jewish memory?Frying latkes with my mother.

Whats your favorite holiday?Definitely Passover! Its a truly meaningful opportunity to gather loved ones and discuss systems of oppression and the value of freedom.

Who is your hero?Rachael Ray, Ive looked up to her my whole career. Shes even part of the reason I pursued culinary school. To have her support me and my book this year has just been the cherry on top.

Tell us about a book you read, movie you watched, TV show you streamed or podcast you listened to in 2021 or one of each!Im currently reading Katie Courics memoir Going There, which is a fascinating look at her rise as a media personality.

For podcasts, Raviv Ullmans The Study is my favorite, holding fascinating conversations about the weeks Torah portion.

For television, it has to be Veneno, a miniseries on HBO Max about La Veneno, an iconic trans sex worker-turned-television-personality in Spain.

Whats one thing you always do (or try to) on Friday night or Saturday? Bake fresh challah.

Whats your New Years Resolution?Create structure on what tikkun olam means for my husband and myself and how we can take action.

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On Oct. 17, a couple got married in Davis. A typical wedding would not be cover-worthy news at J., but the couple who wed are members of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, a community based in Dimona, Israel, with adherents around the world. J.s editors saw the union of Micael Ben Shaleahk and Aminah Ha Rofah as a unique opportunity to provide a glimpse inside a Jewish adjacent community that many may not be familiar with.

Yet some readers found our coverage of the wedding to be strange, even offensive. They protested that Hebrew Israelites are antisemitic, that they are non-Jewish cultural appropriators who are trying to erase halachic Jews by claiming descent from the ancient Israelites and that, therefore, we should not write about them. One person commented on Facebook, I dont understand why you would glorify a cult with an antisemtic reputation for a Jewish mag, a polygamous male-dominated cult no less.

For over a decade, Ive been researching and publishing articles about Hebrew Israelites in Jewish publications. I know this is a sensitive topic for Jewish readers, one that raises hard questions about identity, authenticity, race and communal boundaries. It is also a topic that requires readers to keep an open mind. There are extremists in the Hebrew Israelite movement, just as there are in every religious and spiritual movement, and unfortunately those extremists have largely shaped the public narrative about who Hebrew Israelites are and how they feel about Jews.

For the record: The African Hebrew Israelites those who, like Micael and Aminah, follow the teachings of spiritual leader Ben Ammi Ben Israel are not antisemitic, cultural-appropriating cultists who are trying to erase Jews. Most live in Israel, where their youth serve in the Israel Defense Forces. They attend Israeli schools and intermarry with Jews. They may have beliefs and customs such as the practice of polygamy that some Jews find uncomfortable or even repellent, but they are not trying to erase Jews or do us harm.

Meanwhile, Jews of color feel that coverage of Hebrew Israelites often comes at their expense. They grumble when the media shine a spotlight on Hebrew Israelites and ignore their stories and concerns. As UC Davis sociologist Bruce Haynes put it to me, Normative Black Jews like [Forward editor] Robin Washington are not as sexy as Hebrew Israelites who curse at the Capitol Mall.

Moreover, Jews of color already struggle to be accepted in Jewish spaces, and some argue that coverage of Hebrew Israelites in the Jewish press makes that process even more challenging because the groups can become conflated in peoples minds.

So why, given these fault lines, did we report on Micael and Aminahs wedding? Because at J., we are tasked with exploring our Northern California Jewish community in all its complexity. Its why we regularly write about Jews from every denomination, and no denomination. Its why we have reported extensively on Karaite Jews, who have a community center in Daly City. And its why we cover non-Jewish religious communities that are connected to us in some way. For example, we recently wrote about a Messianic Jewish synagogue in Carmichael that was plastered with antisemitic flyers. We did so not because we accept Messianic Jews as being inside of our proverbial tent, but rather because as two small religious minorities in proximity to each other, we sometimes face similar challenges, from antisemites in particular.

The Bay Area is full of communities of people who follow different lifestyles and traditions. J. is a Jewish community newspaper, but Jews are not an island. In order to understand our place in the larger society to which we belong, we at J. believe it is important to understand the place of communities like ours, communities like the African Hebrew Israelites.

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JTA The remains of an ancient synagogue dating back as far as the 7th century have been discovered in a resort town on Turkeys Mediterranean coast.

The synagogue was found recently in the town of Side, not far from the tourist hotspot of Antalya, in southern Turkey.

Among the remains was a plaque with a menorah motif and an inscription in Hebrew and Greek stating that it was donated by a father in honor of a son who passed away at a young age. The plaque ends with the Hebrew word Shalom.

The town was home to Jews for centuries, but until this discovery, there was little evidence of Jewish life there beyond a few records from the late Byzantine period.

Since 2014, Turkish authorities and the towns own citizens have worked together to try to preserve some of its history.

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That year was a turning point for Side in terms of research and conservation, said Feritah Alanyali, an archeologist from Anadolu University who is leading the excavations, according to the Turkish Jewish news outlet Avlaremoz. Many works have been done that could not be done until now.

Though today Side is a popular destination for Russian and European tourists, in ancient times it was an important Mediterranean port city, adopting Greek culture after its conquest by Alexander the Great in 333 BCE. It maintained a Greek identity, until it was abandoned in the 12th century, after the conquest of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks.

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The city was ultimately repopulated at the end of the 19th century by Turkish Muslim immigrants from Crete and saw a building boom during the 20th century, thanks to the rise of tourism in the Antalya region.

It was that uncontrolled building that covered up much of the ruins of ancient Side, including the synagogue, which was found beneath an old house.

Alanyali hopes that when more structures in Side are removed, over the next four to five years, its ancient ruins, including the synagogue, will be intertwined with the towns infrastructure, like they are in other ancient cities, such as Rome.

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Daily ScriptureJohn 1:6-14

6 A man named John was sent from God. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning the light, so that through him everyone would believe in the light. 8 He himself wasnt the light, but his mission was to testify concerning the light.

9 The true light that shines on all peoplewas coming into the world.10 The light was in the world,and the world came into being through the light,but the world didnt recognize the light.11 The light came to his own people,and his own people didnt welcome him.12 But those who did welcome him,those who believed in his name,he authorized to become Gods children,13 born not from bloodnor from human desire or passion,but born from God.14 The Word became fleshand made his home among us.We have seen his glory,glory like that of a fathers only son,full of grace and truth.

From the phrase In the beginningto the language of light and darkness, Genesis is ever present in John. John wants us to perceive that the stuff of earth is the stuff of God.* Johns gospel gave added emphasis to the understanding that since the beginning, the world had grown dark by turning away from Gods light. Into this darkened world, Jesus brought inextinguishable life and light for all who trusted in him.

Dear Jesus, you gave me (and all of us) yourself as the most precious, life-giving gift of Christmas. I live in continued gratitude for all that supreme gift offers to me. Amen.

* Jamie Clark-Soles, introductory note Genesis Creation to John 1 in The CEB Womens Bible. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2016, p. 1337.

** NIV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, eBook (Kindle Locations 239435-239437). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. The book of Baruch, probably written about 100-200 years before Jesus' birth, was not included in the Hebrew Scriptures, but reflected Hebrew beliefs at that time. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles include it; Protestant Bibles list it as an apocryphal book.

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This is an English translation of the Company's immediate report in Hebrew that was published on December 28, 2021 [Reference no.: 2021-01-185853 (the "Hebrew Version"). This English version is only for convenience purposes. This is not an official translation and has no binding effect. Whilst reasonable care and skill have been exercised in the preparation hereof, no translation can ever perfectly reflect the Hebrew Version. In the event of any discrepancy between the Hebrew Version and this translation, the Hebrew Version shall prevail.

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SAVOREAT LTD.

(the "Company")

28 December 2021

To

To

The Israeli Securities Authority

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd.

http://www.isa.gov.il

http://www.tase.co.il

Dear Madam and Sir,

Re: First Product Reveal of the Company's Plant-BasedBurger and Robot-ChefSystem

The Company is pleased to report that on December 28, 2021, it began a public and extensive marketing

activity of first reveal of its unique technology to the market. For the first time, the public will be able

to be impressed firsthand with the Company's technology, which includes a "Robot-Chef" system for

advanced digital production (including 3D printing) of plant-based meat substitutes developed by the Company (the "Technology", the "Product" and the "System", respectively).1

In the first phase, the Robot-Chef System will be situated and operate in BBB chain branches in Israel,

and the public will be able to order the plant-based burger, which is the first of a variety of products

that the Company develops based on its Technology. The first reveal will allow consumers to

experiment and order, during a specified period, the plant-based burger, produced digitally according

to the diner's preferences, at the restaurant, without intervention of human-chef in the making.

The Company believes that the uniqueness of the Technology, apart from the eating experience, lies in

the possibility of personalized nutrition - allowing the diner to choose and adjust the Product as per his

requirements, at the dining-site itself, among other things in terms of size, ingredients (protein and fat)

and degree of roasting.

The Technology is designed to enable on-site production of plant-based meat substitutes, while enabling

high food safety. The Products produced by the System are digitally produced in a closed system

1 The aforesaid is in continuation of previous updates of the Company as stated in the Company's immediate reports dated September 30, 2021 [Reference No. 2021-01-149844] and from November 8, 2021 [Reference No. 2021-01-164013], which are hereby incorporated by reference.

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(without human-chef intervention in the making) and are designed not to include allergens, GMOs, or gluten, while preserving high nutritional values and without compromising the familiar eating experience (both in taste and texture) when eating meat - such were the results of tastings held by the Company, and as part has received score higher than the standard used in the industry. 2

The marketing and reveal activities are expected to be carried out, starting today, on a number of dates throughout the year 2022, as part of the Company's work plan. The first public reveal as aforementioned is a major and important business and technological milestone in the Company's activities, after completing all the goals it has set for itself for 2021. 3

The Company plans to continue marketing efforts and promote the Technology revealing on various platforms, while exposing the System and Product to a wide audience at other catering sites in Israel and the US and later in other markets, as part of collaborations with international players, such as the Sodexo and the Yarzin-Sela Group, with which it had already collaborated. 4

About SavorEat

SavorEat Ltd. Is developing a platform for the production of various types of plant-based meat alternatives, which purpose is to give the consumer an eating experience that is as similar (in taste and texture) as possible to eating meat of animal origin, prepared on site, according to consumers' preferences and nutritional choices.

Forward-lookingStatements Cautionary Clause- The Company's information and assessments as aforesaid, in connection with the execution and successful completion of the Technology's and Product's first public reveal, to the satisfaction of the parties and the public, continued engagement between the parties and the entering into further commercial stages and/or further development of the Technology under Company's existing collaborations, continued marketing efforts in other markets and various platforms for the Company's Technology, and the entering into additional collaborations with international players, including dates, estimates, targets, forecasts, assessments, expectations and / or plans of the Company in connection with such information and assessments, include "forward-looking information", as defined in the Israeli Securities Law, depending on external circumstances and/or third parties over which the Company has no control and therefore may not materialize and/or may not materialize in full and/or may not materialize in a manner that

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is materially different from what was assessed in the first place. Factors that may cause the Company's information and assessments regarding such information to not materialize in the desired manner may include, inter alia, dissatisfaction of business partners with the results of marketing activities and/or product development, avoidance entering into additional agreements, failure to obtain regulatory approvals of entities and/or third parties necessary for commercial production of the Product and commercialization of the Technology, failure to obtain the funding required to continue promoting the development and marketing of the Technology on time and to the extent required, the effect of increasing competition in the global markets on the viability of further technology development and production of additional products, and realization of any risk factors as specified in section 1.32 of the Annual Report.

Respectfully,

SavorEat Ltd.

Approved for reporting on behalf of the Company by:

Ms. Racheli Vizman, CEO and Director

Ms. Michal Katzir, Product and Marketing Director

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The book of Psalms is one that carries such a range of genre and emotion. Within its pages we have prophecy, such as Psalm 22 all the way to repentance in Psalm 51. However, the book starts off with a foundational proclamation. In Psalm 1:1 we read, Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, norsits inthe seat ofscoffers (ESV-CE). For purposes of this study the Hebrew noun esher which is the first word of this Psalm, will be examined.

The Hebrew word from which the English word for Blessed is derived from is .

This Hebrew word, when transliterated, is ashar which is most translated as Blessed. There are a few other meanings depending on the context in which it is used.

The word used at the beginning of Psalms is the masculine noun esher. It is used as Blessed 27 times in the Old Testament and is used as Happy 18 times[1]. One of the instanced where an inspired writer uses it the same way is this Psalm is in 2 Chronicles 9:7. It is once again used at the beginning of the passage and denotes one being full of happiness[2].

Both passages are projecting strong emotion. In Psalm 1:1 the psalmist exclaims Oh, the happiness of one whom does not do these things. The same goes for the passage from 2 Chronicles as the inspired writer exclaims happiness about those who want to hear the wisdom of God. In Isaiah 30:18b the word is used at the end of the passage. That passage of scripture states, for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Though it is towards the end of the passage, the meaning is similar but with a subtle difference. The passage on Psalm one described man walking with the Lord on this earth. He is blessed because he runs from sin and strives to live a good life. The passage in Isaiah varies as it is a precursor to a messianic promise. The people are blessed when they put their faith in the Lord and is accompanied by repentance[3].

Though the word means blessed and happy there are a few variations. Some of these variations are to go, to bless, walk the way of understanding, and blesses[4]. Blessed and happy are the main translations and used that way about 45 times.

Context is crucial when interpreting any word in scripture. Psalm 1 is the only place where a negative approach is used to get the point across. Blessed is the man who isolates himself from sinners, does not follow their ways, and concentrates on the ways of the Lord. He is looking to God and strives to live a morally upright life[5].

The word occurs mostly in Psalms and Proverbs. Its occurrence in wisdom literature is not at all surprising as they deal a great amount with morality. Through the usage in various books in the Old Testament it equated blessed with following the ways of the Lord. If one has faith in the lord he is also blessed, or happy though it may not be in this life.

In conclusion the placement at the beginning of the Psalms is important. It lays the foundation for what the Psalms will further discuss. Following the ways of the Lord, having unwavering faith, and repentance for sin. These are the characteristics of the blessed man that the Psalm describes.

[1] Wilhelm Gesenius and Samuel Prideaux Tregelles. Gesenius Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures, Gesenius Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures (Bellingham,WA: Logos Bible Software, 2003), 127.

[2] Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Bellingham,WA: Logos Research Systems,, 1997), 346.

[3] James E. Smith, The Major Prophets, Old Testament Survey Series (Joplin, MO: College Press, 1992), 97.

[4] R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke, eds., Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 80.

[5] H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., Psalms, vol. 1, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 1.

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