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on ferrier avenue. for the sterns, who own real estate giant

olymbec, this was quite a departure from their traditional line of

business and quite a positive one at that. the kandy Gallery

could just become the new “it” venue for parties. see our featured

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We Extend Best Wishes to the State of Israel on its 68th Anniversary

May the year ahead bring peace and security to all in the Middle East.

MICHAEL HAYMANPUBLISHER AND

EDITOR

JULIUS HAYMANPUBLISHERAND EDITOR1937-2000

ANITA SURMANEditor

General News Section

The Jewish Standard, July 2016 3

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Only the naive could possi-bly believe that we can be knightson a white charger riding in toSaudi Arabia bringing universalbrotherhood. Perhaps theseactivists should ask themselveswho might replace the House ofSaad if it fell. We sought regimechange in the Arab world before andthe results are now playing out everynight on our television screens.

If David Ben Gurion, in theaftermath of the Holocaust,could negotiate an arms dealwith West Germany, surely astrategic alliance with an obvi-ous ally of the West, and despitelingering mutual suspicions, ofIsrael, merits our support,Indeed, unconfirmed reportssuggest Saudi Arabia may bebuying drones from Israel, evenif, for obvious reasons, thetransaction is taking place underthe radar and through SouthAfrica. There is also credible evi-dence that Israel and SaudiArabia have discussed Israel’suse of Saudi airspace in theevent it decides to launch anattack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The Harper government andnow the Trudeau Liberals wereright to allow the sale of lightarmoured LAVs to Saudi Arabia.If the Saudis weren’t able to buymilitary equipment from Canadathey would buy it from a more will-ing and reliable partner. Webelieve that the need for Canada toplay in full measure its role instopping the spread of Islamic ter-ror should far outweigh our dis-dain for the devious machinationsof the House of Saad. Those whosee a world of only sweetness andlight are almost childlike in theirfaith in human nature. MostCanadians, we hope, understandthat there is no security insurrender.

LAVs to Saudi ArabiaThe House of Saad shows no

repentance for beating its own citi-zens into submission. And genuinerepentance is, after all, the forerun-ner of forgiveness. The Saudiregime, linked since 1744 to theteachings of Mahammed ibn al-Wahhab, clamps down on thoseaccused of diluting the true mean-ing of Islam. It denies rights towomen. It tolerates no dissent.What’s perhaps even more disturbingis that the Saudis aggressively exporttheir brand of Islam, fundingmosques in countries which shouldbe beyond their reach. Nor can weforget that while there may have beenno direct evidence that the govern-ment as an institution or its seniorofficials played a role in 9/11 there islittle doubt that Riyadh turned ablind eye to Saudi donors and unreg-ulated charities who financed al-Qaeda’s operations. For years SaudiArabia has hidden behind aMachiavellian cloak of probity andgood faith.

But the Saudis have nowbecome dependable, and indispens-able, allies in the fight against ISIL,Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthi.And Saudi Arabia, together withIsrael, understands that only powerand might will curb Iran’s nuclearambitions. While most countrieswith the legal instruments to targetterrorist financing have stood idlyby, Saudi Arabia has obtained con-victions in 900 cases. The Saudigovernment has frozen over 31 mil-lion Euros owed by 2187 entities orindividuals, far exceeding the dismalresponse among other nationsmerely paying lip service to theirown laws. Expressing sympathy forISIL lands a person in jail. And toaddress the extremism being preachedin the country’s mosques the Ministryof Islamic Affairs has launched a“war of ideas” aimed at imams whoincite their worshippers.

THE WORLD IN REVIEWNEWS OF THE RECENT PAST IS REVIEWED

By NOAH FREEDMAN

4 he Jewish Standard, July, 2016

No Room

At the Inn

Alexandra Katzmanand Jonathan Webberwanted to hold a non-reli-gious wedding ceremonyand paid a deposit toBernadine’s Stillman Innin Galena, Illinois. Theirwedding was to take placeon May 14, 2016.

But when the inter-faith couple visited the Innlate last year to finalizedetails for the wedding Innowner Dave Andersonadvised them that hewould only permit aChristian wedding at thehotel. When Mr. Webberand Ms. Katzman toldAnderson that she wasJewish and the familywould be uncomfortablewith such a service,Anderson told them thatthe wedding was “not agood fit” for the Inn.

The couple hadstayed at Bernadine’sStillman Inn the weekendthey became engaged anddecided that it would bethe perfect location fortheir ceremony. Theyfilled out the proper formand made it quite clearthat they wanted a “non-religious” wedding. TheInn’s website providedinstructions for securingthe services of a localjudge which would be noproblem since the motherof one of Ms. Katzman’sfriends was a judge. TheInn seemed satisfied asthe deposit cheque wascashed.

But the protest wasto no avail. It was either aChristian wedding withGod or religion or nothing.The deposit was returned

New London Mayor

Condemns Anti-Semitism

Blatant anti-Semitism has permeatedthe British Labour Party.Khadim Hussein, aBradford Labour council-lor, complains that theschool education system“only tells you about AnneFrank and the six millionZionists that were killedby Hitler”, while neglect-ing to mention the deathsof millions of Africans.Vicki Kirby, the vice chairof Labour’s Workingbranch, tweets that Jewshave “big noses” and“slaughter the oppressed”.Then there’s suspendedLabour MP Nas Shah whoapparently would like tosee all Jews deported fromIsrael to America. Andwho can forget the viewsof ex London mayor KenLivingstone whose readingof history tells him thatHitler was originally aZionist.

And so it’s arefreshing change whennewly elected Londonmayor Sadiq Khan endors-es a pledge co-signed by150 mayors from 30European countries andover 300 mayors from theUnited States to fight anti-Semitism. “I am proud,”said Khan, “to sign theMayors Against Anti-Semitism pledge and I willencourage other majorsacross the country andEurope to do thesame...Sadly, for manyLondoners, antisemitismis a very present problem.As a British Muslim, I amno stranger to discrimina-tion and prejudice”.

Khan has been out-spoken in his condemna-tion of members of his own

aV i G D o r l i e B e r M a N , i s r a e l ’ s N e w

Defence Minister, is shown with his new

al ly , P r ime Min is te r Ben jamin

Netanyahu. the expanded co-al i t ion is

some observers say, israel ’s most r ight-

wing government in i ts history. outgoing

Min is te r Moshe yaa lon war ned o f

“extremist e lements” in the government

and former pr ime minister ehud Barak

spoke of the “fascist e lements” now dic-

tat ing gover nment pol icy. whether the

reconc i l ia t ion between Netanyahu and

lieberman wil l last is anyone’s guess.

the unpredictable lieberman st i l l has his

eye on the pr ime minister ’s off ice and his

“past di fferences” with Netanyahu could

easi ly resurface and br ing the honey-

moon to an abrupt end. Photo iGPo (Please turn to page 8)

party and says he wears a“badge of shame” becauseof the virulent anti-Semitism expressed byLabour politicians.Jonathan Arkush, thepresident of t h e J e w i s h

Board of Deputies, isencouraged that the newmayor of London has “seta very positive tone thatwe hope will be replicatedthroughout Khan’s may-oralty.”

The Jewish Standard, June 30, 2016 5

MRS. TRUMP

BLAMES

THE JEWSWIFE OF PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE SAYS

CRITICAL ARTICLE “PROVOKED” ANTI-SEMITISM

By RAFAEL MEDOFF

Dr. rafael Medoff is founding director of the

David s. wyman institute for holocaust studies

and author of 16 books about Jewish history. -

the editor

Melania Trump, thewife of presumptiveRepublican presidentialnominee Donald Trump,says that a Jewish journal-ist "provoked" anti-Semiticharassment by writing anunflattering article abouther. In doing so, Mrs.Trump has joined a smallbut notorious group of pub-lic figures who, instead ofconfronting anti-Semitism,have preferred to blame thevictim.

Julia Ioffe's recentarticle about Melania, in GQ

Magazine, disclosed thatMrs. Trump has a half-brother whose existencetheir father has neveracknowledged. As a result,Ioffe received numerousthreats to her life from self-described Donald Trumpsupporters. Some of theharassing telephone callsincluded recordings ofspeeches by Adolf Hitler.Ioffe has filed a complaintwith the police.

In an interview withDu Jour Magazine, thewould-be First Lady wasasked about the anti-Semitic harassment of Ms.Ioffe. Melania replied: "Idon't control my fans, but Idon't agree with whatthey're doing…but there arepeople out there who maybewent too far. She provokedthem."

Donald Trump iswell known for his reluc-

tance to distance himselffrom his more extreme sup-porters, and for his tenden-cy to blame others for "pro-voking" unruly behavior byhis admirers. Some criticsmight say that Melania isfollowing in her husband'sfootsteps by depicting hermore vicious "fans" as theones who were unfairly"provoked" by Ms. Ioffe.

Mrs. Trump, howev-er, is not the first public fig-ure to blame Jewish behav-ior for the actions of anti-Semites.

One infamous out-burst along these linescame from British ForeignMinister Ernest Bevin in1945. Annoyed by the grow-ing pressure to admitHolocaust survivors toMandatory Palestine, Bevinwarned that if "the Jews"tried "to get too much to thehead of the queue, you havethe danger of another anti-Semitic reaction through itall." Zionist leader ChaimWeizmann memorablyresponded that just a fewmonths earlier, "the Jewshad the highest priority inthe queues which led to thecrematoria of Auschwitzand Treblinka."

The following sum-mer, another prominentEuropean public figureinvoked the blame-the-Jews theme. Afterpogromists murdered 46

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O LY M B E C O W N E R

E X PA N D S R E A C HOLYMBEC OPENS THE KANDY GALLERY

By MIKE COHEN

also happens to have a keeninterest in photography.Last fall, he and his wifeKirsty, along with notedCanadian photographerNeil Dankoff, opened theKandy Gallery at 5629Ferrier Avenue. This was anempty shell of a storefrontowned by Olymbec. It hadbeen left vacant for sometime. Over a period of sever-al months, the 5,500square foot property wastransformed into a state-of the art gallery withsufficient room to display

the majority of Dankoff'slarge panoramic prints aswell as a number of pho-tographs taken by Derekand Kirsty.

Dankoff, who wasborn and raised in CôteSaint-Luc and now residesin Toronto, is close friendswith the Sterns. He takesmagnificent panoramiclandscape photographssome of which span over 10feet wide. His current workon display represents sixyears of photography trips


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The key toOlymbec’s rapid growth isits successful formula ofacquiring and repositioningvacant properties and mar-keting to a new client base.The late Edward Sternfounded the company in1975. Today, his sonsRichard and Derek run theoperation. In the case ofDerek, not only does hefly his own helicopter - he

Olymbec owns andmanages a diverse portfolioof industrial, office, retail,and residential propertieslocated throughout Canadaand the United States.Headquartered in Montréal,Olymbec is now one of thelargest private industrialreal estate holders inEastern Canada withbranch offices located inkey markets across Québecand the United Statesincluding; Trois-Rivières,Sherbrooke, Québec City,Dallas, Atlantic, Columbus,


EYE ON

MONTREAL

S C H O L A R S H I P

RECIPIENTS: An orienta-tion and dinner was held atthe Gelber ConferenceCentre recently, hosted byRiva and Thomas O. Hecht,for five teachers who willtravel to Israel in July totake part in theSummer Seminar forInternational Educators atthe Yad Vashem HolocaustMemorial.

Via the Riva andThomas O. HechtScholarship, Teaching ofThe Holocaust for Educators,this year’s recipients areMarymount AcademyInternational BaccalaureateProgram Coordinator RaminKhodaie from the EnglishMontreal School Board

and Clearpoint ElementarySchool in Pointe Claireteacher Suzanne Ujvarifrom the Lester B. PearsonSchool Board. They will bejoined by Anne-MarieJacob from College Jesus-Marie de Sillery in QuebecCity, Marie HélèneLaverdière from ÉcoleSecondaire Jean-de-Brébeuf in Quebec City andSandy Plamondon fromÉcole Primaire St.Lawrence in Candiac.


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By MIKE COHEN

We Join in Extending Best Wishes to theSTATE OF ISRAEL

On its 68th Anniversary.May the coming year bring peace and security to

all in the Middle EastWe Extend Best

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Nous rendons hommage à

la communauté juive et aux constructeurs,

promoteurs, architectes et ingénieurs juifs

qui ont contribué à la

croissance de la région de Montréal.

Nous sommes toujours heureux de vous servir.

WORLD IN REVIEW(Continued from page 4)

and the couple wereforced to find anothervenue.

Now the newlymarried Wisconsin couplehave filed a discrimina-tion charge against theIllinois hotel. “This typeof discrimination is exact-ly what the I l l inois law

was designed to prevent, “said Rebecca Glenberg, asenior staff attorney at theACLU of Illinois. “As apublic business, open toall, the Inn cannot imposereligious requirements onmy clients or others, espe-cially not at their ownwedding”.

Holocaust Survivor

Fulfills a Dream

Hermina Hirsch is89 and a HolocaustSurvivor. She was born inCzechoslovakia andendured a series of Naziconcentration campsbeginning in 1944, at theage of 17. She was liber-ated in January 1945.She and her husbandmoved to Detroit in 1953and she immediatelybecame a loyal DetroitTigers fan, attendingmany games over theyears.

Hirsch has beensinging the nationalanthem for years at meet-ings of Holocaust sur-vivors in the Detroit area.But she had one ambitionthat remained unfulfiled.She wanted to sing thenational anthem at aMajor League baseballgame.

In an interviewwith Detroit’s WWJ televi-sion station the octoge-narian called on theDetroit Tigers to allow her

to sing the anthem, assur-ing them that she wouldnot be intimidated being infront of thousands of fans.After an outpouring ofsupport from the commu-nity the Tigers invited herto sing the anthem beforea game last monthbetween the Tigers andTamp Bay Rays.

When asked if shewould be nervous, Hirschreplied: “If I lived throughthe concentration camp, itcouldn’t be that bad. Idon’t want to die before Ising at a baseball game”.

I’m Not Anti-Semitic

Says Toms River Mayor

More than half ofLakewood, New Jersey’s95,000 residents areOrthodox Jews. It is hometo one of American’slargest yeshivas, BethMedrash Govoha. It hasthe highest birthrate inNew Jersey at 44 birthsper 1000 residents.

But with Lakewoodrunning out of real estate


We Extend Best Wishes to Montreal’s Jewish Builders,

Developers, Architects and Engineers.

We congratulate you on your contribution to the growth

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We are always pleased to serve you.


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Nous rendons hommage à la communauté juive et aux constructeurs,

promoteurs, architectes et ingénieurs juifs qui ont contribué à la



The teachers willtake part in a professionaldevelopment programunder the direction of theFaculty of the Yad VashemSeminars for Educatorsfrom Abroad, InternationalSchool for HolocaustStudies. The goal of theprogram is to provide pro-fessional development activ-ities to teachers for teachingabout the Holocaust andanti-Semitism. Each schol-arship recipient will beasked to create at least oneteaching unit or moduledeveloped within the con-text learned, appropriate forthe régime pedagogique.The scholarship covers allexpenses.

The Hechts spon-sored the trip for Mr.Khodaie and Ms. Ujvari. Billand Dana Bell did so for Ms.Laverdière while the otherscholars were sponsored byVictor David, Irwin and SaraTauben, Janis Levine andthe Morris Goodman family.On hand at the receptionand orientation to serve asresource guides wereCanadian Society for YadVashem Executive DirectorEster Driham, MontrealHolocaust Memorial CentreExecutive Director AliceHerscovitch and past schol-arship winners Lev Bernerf r o m V i n c e n t M a s s e y

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properties to buyOrthodox Jews havebegun seeking homes innearby towns, amongthem the North Doverneighbourhood of TomsRivers. Mayor ThomasKelaher has expressedsome “concern” aboutOrthodox Jews trying tobuy homes in his townand warning non Jewsthat if they don’t sell theywill be the only non-Orthodox left.

“It’s like an inva-sion”, Kelaher toldBloomberg. “It’s the oldthrowback to the 1960s,when blockbusting hap-pened in Philadelphia andChicago with the African-American community. ‘Iwant to buy your house.You’ll be sorry if youdon’t’. It scares the hellout of people.”

Kelaher denies anysuggestion of anti-Semitism.




On its 68th Anniversary.We congratulate its people on their

many achievements.May the year ahead bring peace and security to all in the Middle East

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On its 68th Anniversary.May the coming year bring peace and security to all in the Middle East

to destinations includingItaly, Israel, Namibia, SouthAfrica, Bora Bora, Tahaa,New York, Banff, Maui,Kauai and Kona.

Three years agoDankoff wanted some com-pany for his trip to Africa.He in i t ia l l y thought o f

Richard Stern, Derek’sbrother. While Richard wasnot available, Derek jumpedat the opportunity. That iswhen Kirsty piped in. “If youplan to go to Africa withNeil, you are not doing sowithout me!” she stated.They went for 14 days, had

a great time and returnedwith superb material. A yearlater the threesome did arepeat trip, this time to BoraBora. When Hawaii becamethe choice for 2015,Dankoff’s wife CarolynOffman decided to join inthe fun as well. This sum-mer, Iceland and the GrandCanyon are on the agenda.

Dankoff lauds Derekand Kirsty for making theKandy Gallery a reality. Infour months they took ashell of a storefront andturned it into a thing ofbeauty. Business is good,not only for the purchase ofthe photographs, but pri-vate bookings. This is quick-ly becoming the “it” place forweddings, bar mitzvahs andcharity events. Jewish com-munity and other non-profitorganizations have begun totake notice. The walls in themiddle move, creating evenmore space. Andrea Baronis the Gallery coordinatorand on location at leastthree days a week.Appointments and eventscan be booked directly withher at 514-439-1286, 514-793-0084 or [email protected].

The name Kandy, bythe way, came from “Kirsty,Neil and Derek.” There isalso a lot of delicious look-ing real candy on display inthe large showcase whenyou walk in. I really enjoyedtouring the facility and wasimpressed by Dankoff’s

portraits, particularlythose from Jerusalem, theDead Sea, the Western Wall,Masada, Times Square andCentral Park. They areframed in plexi-glass andprinted on high end photopaper. Orders are fullypackaged and delivereddoor to door.

Dankoff, who wasincluded in "The Ten BestCanadian PhotographersYou Should know" list,comes to Montreal aboutonce a month. He studiedFilm & Communications atMcGill University beforeheading west to Toronto in1998. He founded ReactionStudio, a photography/video business in 2002 andhas since enjoyed express-ing his creativity withinboth mediums. He and hiswife have three children;the Sterns have four.

Using a medium for-mat digital camera,Dankoff’s unique approachand technique result in adistinct look that is easilyrecognizable. Each finalpiece consists of multipleimages captured with vary-ing exposures all seamless-ly put together in an effortto transport the viewer to aspecific time and place.

You can see a videoof the Gallery on the JewishStandard website atwww.the jewishstandardmag.com.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIf4cha547U

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Jews in the Polish town ofKielce in 1946, the highestchurch official in Poland,Cardinal August Hlond,declared that the attackerswere simply responding tothe (alleged) presence ofmany Jewish officials inthe country's newCommunist regime. TheseJews were "attempting toimpose forms of govern-ment completely rejectedby the great majority ofpeople," the cardinal insist-ed; therefore, the responsi-bility for the violence inKielce "is borne to a greatextent by Jews."

It is even more trou-bling that such sentimentshave been privately voicedby several presidents.

Consider, for exam-ple, the February 21, 1973telephone conversationbetween then-PresidentRichard Nixon and evange-list Billy Graham. (Thetranscript was released bythe Nixon PresidentialLibrary in 2009.) Nixon toldGraham that Jewish oppo-sition to Christian evange-lism would "stir up" anti-Semitism. "It happened inSpain, it happened inGermany, it’s happening--and now it’s going to hap-pen in America if thesepeople don’t start behav-ing," the president assert-ed. "It may be they have adeath wish," Nixon added."You know that’s been theproblem with our Jewishfriends for centuries." Even"a lot of reasonable peo-ple…are getting awfullysick of Jewish behavior”,he said.

Unfortunately, suchattitudes sometimes can befound on both sides of thepolitical aisle. In 1968, theU.S. government publisheda transcript of PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt'sJanuary 17, 1943 meetingwith local officials inCasablanca. Discussingthe status of Jews in Allied-liberated North Africa, FDR

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the MoNUMeNt iN the PasteUr-aMia

s u b w a y s t a t i o n i n Buenos aires,

argentina with the names of the 85 victims of the

1994 terrorist rampage. whereas the assault on

the israeli embassy two years earlier was regard-

ed more as an attack on a foreign country, the

storming of the aMia building was seen as an

attack on loyal citizens of argentina.

teachers, college professors,etc, in Germany, wereJews." (Those statisticswere wild exaggerations, ofcourse.)

While doingresearch at the CentralZionist Archives inJerusalem several yearsago, I came across anotherRoosevelt statement in thisvein. The document con-tained the notes of RabbiStephen S. Wise, the mostprominent American Jewishleader of that era, from ameeting he had withPresident Roosevelt onJanuary 22, 1938. WhenWise referred to the mis-treatment of Jews inPoland, FDR respondedwith an anecdote allegingthat "the Jewish grain deal-er and the Jewish shoedealer and the Jewish shop-keeper" were dominatingthe Polish economy, andthat was what provokedlocal Christians to startsaying "the Jew should go."

In the cases of Nixonand Roosevelt, their privatesentiments about Jewishbehavior did not becomepublic knowledge untilmany years after they hadpassed away. In the case ofMelania Trump, however,she has unabashedly madeher views known; perhapswe should be thankful fortha

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“To suggest that I amanti-Semitic is ridiculous.We have a lovely relation-ship with the Jewish com-munity in Toms River.Kelaher maintains he wasjust expressing how localresidents feel.

Meanwhile theToms River Town Councilenacted an ordinancecreating a five-year“cease-and-desist” zonebarring door to doorsolicitations. The townalready has a no knockregistry in effect but realestate agents are simplyignoring the order.

Appealing Blatant

Passover Punishment

Susan Abeles, anOrthodox Jew, worked forthe MetropolitanWashington AirportsAuthority for 26 years.Each year, prior to 2013,she requested and receivedtime off to observe thePassover holiday. In 2013she followed the same pro-cedure for Passover. Butwhen she returned to workher superiors accused herof failing to follow proper

protocol. They claimed shehad not given ample noticeof her impending absence.She was suspended with-out pay for five days. Sodistraught was Abeles thatshe retired “involuntarily”the same year.

In May of 2015Abeles filed a complaintagainst the AirportsAuthority claiming that ithad violated the ReligiousFreedom Restoration Actand the Civil Rights Act.The Authority counteredthat it is not strictly a gov-

ernment entity and that ittherefore falls outside theprovisions of the ReligiousFreedom Restoration Act.The federal district court ofVirginia, where the casewas heard, ruled againstAbeles.

Now Abeles has filedan appeal. Her suit asksthe court to order the air-ports authority to rescindthe “absence without leave”designation and remove anyreference to it from her per-sonnel file. It asks thatAbeles be reinstated to herposition if she so chooses.The suit further seeksfinancial compensation forlost income, lost pensionmoney due to early retire-ment and remuneration forpain and suffering.

The Becket Fund forReligious Liberty and theAmerican JewishCommittee each filed afriend of the court brief onher behalf. “It takes somechutzpah for the govern-ment to punish a Jewishwomen for celebratingPassover”, says EricRassbach, deputy generalcounsel at Becket. “Thatdidn’t work out so well forPharoah.”

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