HERITAGE
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MARCH 7, 2019 / ADAR 30, 5779
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Volume 239
000 Number 47
0 Published Weekly Since 1887
Synagogue Desecrator
Sentenced JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
SHEIDALI DZHALILOV, aka Ali
Ulfanov, was found guilty Feb. 28 on
charges of ethnic intimidation, intentional
desecration of a place of worship and insti-
tutional vandalism.

He was sentenced to two months in
prison, one month’s house arrest, 150 hours
of community service, three months of parole
following the end of his incarceration and
three years probation. He is also required to
attend counseling for cultural sensitivity and
to write a letter of apology to the members of
Congregation Beth Solomon.

That concluded an 18-month ordeal
that began on a hot August night in 2017,
when Dzhalilov bounded up the stairs of
Congregation Beth Solomon, made a lewd
gesture toward the camera and proceeded
to urinate across the main entrance as
Rabbi Akiva Pollock watched in shock on
the security cameras.

Dzhalilov was flanked by his family at
the sentencing hearing on the fifth floor at
the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Justice
in Center City.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the
courtroom, a bus load of Beth Solomon
The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Photos by Selah Maya Zighelboim
Getting Away on a Jewish
Farm in Connecticut
SELAH MAYA ZIGHELBOIM | JE STAFF
MY DRIVE TO the Isabella Freedman
Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village,
Conn., took me over creeks and moun-
tains dripping with frozen icicles.

I was heading to the retreat center for
Moishe House’s Passover Seder Retreat
when, about 20 minutes from my desti-
nation, near a town called Goshen, my
phone picked up the fact that I was going
away for the weekend and severed my con-
nection to the world.

I was no longer connected to the net-
work, and therefore had no GPS and no
ability to call or text a friend for help. So
for the last stretch of my drive, I had to
rely — for the first time in my millennial
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