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Last day of #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth & right in the heart of #America250! 🇺��✡️
Jews have always been part of America — not “arriving later,” but building it from the very beginning. Developing. Contributing. Innovating. We are us. Here’s just a taste of that shared story:

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@PalCatholic I did some research into the Palestinian Christian population and its decline. If anyone if interested I can post it

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America250 and Jewish American Heritage is incomplete without mentioning Emma Lazarus. Please like and share this if you agree with me that she should be remembered.

Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) stands out as one of the most influential Jewish American women in U.S. history—a poet, activist, and early advocate for Jewish causes who literally helped define America’s identity as a beacon for immigrants.

Born on July 22, 1849, in New York City, Emma came from a prominent, wealthy Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish family. Her father, Moses Lazarus, was a successful sugar refiner and merchant; her mother, Esther Nathan, traced her roots to early Jewish settlers in colonial America (including ancestors who fled the Inquisition in Brazil to New Amsterdam in the 1600s). The family was culturally Jewish but not strictly observant in synagogue life during her childhood.

Emma was the fourth of seven children and received a top-tier private education at home, mastering literature, German, French, and Italian. She began writing poetry as a young teen, publishing her first collection, Poems and Translations, at age 18 in 1867. https://t.co/SVgneO8Iev
Her early work drew praise from literary giants like Ralph Waldo Emerson (to whom she dedicated poems) and focused on classical and Romantic themes.

She translated Heine and Goethe, wrote plays and prose, and moved in elite New York and European literary circles.

But everything shifted in 1881 after the violent Russian pogroms that followed Tsar Alexander II’s assassination. Waves of desperate Ashkenazi Jewish refugees flooded New York, fleeing persecution and poverty.

Emma, deeply moved by their plight, threw herself into activism. She volunteered with immigrant aid groups, helped found the Hebrew Technical Institute to train refugees in trades, and established the Society for the Improvement and Colonization of East European Jews.

She wrote passionately in outlets like The American Hebrew, urging Jewish education, self-reliance, and even the creation of an independent Jewish nationality in Palestine—making her a true forerunner of modern Zionism. Her 1882 collection Songs of a Semite marked the first major volume of Jewish-themed poetry by an American Jew. https://t.co/SVgneO8Iev

Her most enduring contribution came in 1883 when she donated the sonnet “The New Colossus” to a fundraiser for the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal. Written specifically to welcome the very immigrants she was helping, the poem reimagined the statue not as a conquering figure but as the “Mother of Exiles.”

The famous lines—now engraved on a bronze plaque inside the pedestal (installed in 1903)—read:

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

It transformed the Statue of Liberty into a universal symbol of American refuge, especially resonant for Jewish immigrants.

Emma never married and continued writing and traveling until her untimely death on November 19, 1887, at just 38, likely from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She is buried in Beth Olam Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Today, Emma Lazarus is honored in the National Women’s Hall of Fame, with schools, parks, and Jewish women’s organizations named after her. Her story beautifully bridges Jewish identity, American patriotism, and immigrant advocacy—perfect for anyone exploring Jewish American history.

#America250 #Jewishamericsnheritage #JewishWomenOfHistory

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Remember Nahal Oz

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[friend of Israel 🇮🇱🇺🇸🧡 @FriendIsrael65]

🧵 History repeats itself in New York City.
In 1917, socialist Morris Hillquit ran for mayor of NYC. Immigrant Jews flooded to his side — not because they suddenly loved Marxism, but as a protest vote.

A Jewish reader wrote to the New York Tribune: “The East Side Jews will vote for Mr. Hillquit not because they have been converted to Socialism… but simply as a protest against the old parties, whom they hold responsible for our entry into the world war. The Jews are primarily a peace-loving people.”

Zionist leader Louis Lipsky titled his open letter: “For Peace, Not Socialism.”
The Socialist vote exploded in Jewish neighborhoods. But Jewish leaders (AJC’s Louis Marshall, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Orthodox papers, even some pro-war socialists) sounded the alarm: This will fuel antisemitism. It will make Jews look disloyal. Brandeis privately warned of “some form of a pogrom.” Ads called Election Day a “Judgment Day for Jews.” They begged: Don’t separate yourselves. Don’t give our enemies ammunition. https://t.co/kWfHtOezYa https://t.co/kWfHtOezYa

Fast forward to 2025.
Zohran Mamdani — DSA socialist, vocal Israel critic who has accused it of “genocide” and questioned its Jewish character — wins the mayoralty.

Jewish organizations (UJA-Federation, JCRC, ADL, AJC, Board of Rabbis) issue statements expressing deep concern: His “core beliefs [are] fundamentally at odds with our community’s deepest convictions.” Exit polls show Jewish voters heavily opposed him. The same fears echo: Will this normalize hostility toward Jewish New Yorkers? Will it deepen divisions?

https://t.co/LtRqlAVaVU https://t.co/pbt7hF7Ntd
The issues differ (WWI draft then; affordability + foreign policy now), but the dynamic is identical: A protest vote in immigrant-heavy districts, framed as “not really socialism,” met with establishment warnings about backlash.

History rhymes.

New York’s Jews aren’t “converted” any more than they were in 1917. But when ethnic/immigrant coalitions rally behind candidates seen as hostile on core issues, the community’s response is predictable — and the warnings from 1917 proved prescient.

Will 2025 be different? Or will the cycle continue?
(Quotes pulled straight from Gil Ribak’s “For Peace, Not Socialism” — the exact 1917 article. Read it and see the parallels for yourself.)
What do you think — protest vote or realignment? 🇮🇱🧡
#NYCMayor #HistoryRepeats #JewishNYC

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@LiquidFaerie Pretty accurate

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Avraham smashed his father's idols
before any religion existed.

That is the foundation of who we are. Not a people who believed in one more god.

A people who believed there was only One. ✡️

[friend of Israel 🇮🇱🇺🇸🧡 @FriendIsrael65]

This is priceless.

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This woman started the “We Do Not Care Club”, where menopause and post-menopause brain fog is running the show.

She's sharing some of their funniest brain-fog moments in their official incident report 😂

From trying to zoom in on a photo in a physical book like it’s a phone… calling the toaster a “Pop Tart machine”… using a car key fob on the house door… paying for gas and driving away without ever pumping it… heading to the bank instead of the post office… and the ultimate classic: putting on her glasses to look for her glasses.

It’s pure comedy gold and completely relatable.

If you’re in the club (or know someone who is), drop your best “what in the world did I just do?” story in the comments.

[friend of Israel 🇮🇱🇺🇸🧡 @FriendIsrael65]

No wonder it is said that Jewish mothers want their kids to be doctors. These doctors rocked. Read their stories!

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🧵 I’m going to be difficult here. I’m not respecting the end of Jewish American Heritage Month cause there are too many people we haven’t discussed. So call be a Rebel With a Csuse.

Jewish American Heritage: More Jewish “Healers” of the Revolution 🇺🇸🇮🇱
1/ We’ve covered Dr. Samuel Nunez (who saved early Savannah from epidemic) and Dr. Philip Moses Russell (Valley Forge surgeon). But there were other Jewish physicians who answered the call during the fight for independence.