Geoffrey Stern

CEO audio chip enabler and Voice Gifting pioneer. Pres of PEF Israel Endowment Funds and author of weekly torah blog

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#matek #ski shop is officially open https://t.co/eGCWD1LN9v #Sustainability #performance #style #selfconfidence #MADEinUSA and #fatherdaughter #pride all included.

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The Nativity of Moses - Parshat Shemot https://t.co/n0hWB148SX via @YouTube

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I just wrote my first note on Substack
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Splitting the Adam https://t.co/HMdFXkEO2d via @YouTube

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Splitting the Adam https://t.co/HMdFXkEgcF via @YouTube

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Build-A-Bear offers personalization features, such as Recording Your Voice, to make this gift the most meaningful ... https://t.co/50gb5KDGmQ

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College students and academics are protesting the Gaza war because US weapons are being used. Where were they during the 7 year war in Yemen? https://t.co/xhfG8sbXmk

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US college youth and academics are upset by Gaza because US armaments are being used. Where were they during the 7 year war in Yemen where more than 150,000 were killed and which also created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises? https://t.co/7FHh779fSi

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Jerome L. Stern Pre-Pesah Lecture & Communal Song https://t.co/5OzhB9Omgz Comer in-person or join online!

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The Importance Of Preserving Memories https://t.co/YsW9H7EUYY

[David Lange @Israellycool]

The Mayor of Orland Park, Illinois @KeithPekau's response to several residents demanding that the board pass a resolution for a ceasefire in #Gaza, is a thing of beauty! 🫳🎤 More here: https://t.co/ykbiCmvRYv

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Last night on #madlik the Reverend @DumisaniTemsgen provided needed analysis of the Black Church and israel as well as inspiration in the form of educational initiatives of @IbsiNow https://t.co/X1IUR3EYb3

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@RabbiBrander @PaterNikodemus @NatalieAmiri Boosha! Thank you Abbot for you forgiveness and thank you Rabbi Brander for providing a glimmer of light in this dark episode

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@RabbiBrander @OhrTorahStone Baruch Dayan haemet

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@RabbiBrander @OhrTorahStone Baruch Dayan ha’emet. So sad

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

Personal Thoughts:
(not for everyone, feel free to skip)

For the longest time, I struggled with my identity.

A Palestinian kid born inside Israel. Like…wtf.

Many of my friends refuse to this day to say the word “Israel” and call themselves “Palestinian” only.

But since I was 12, that did not make sense to me.

So I decided to mix the two and become a “Palestinian-Israeli”

I thought this term reflected who I was.
Palestinian first. Israeli second.

But after recent events, I started to think.
And think.
And think.
And then my thoughts turned to anger.

I realized that if Israel were to be “invaded” like that again, we would not be safe. To a terrorist invading Israel, all citizens are targets.

900 Israelis died so far. More than 40 of them are Arabs. Killed by other Arabs. And even 2 Thai people died too.

And I do not want to live under a Palestinian government.

Which means I only have one home, even if I’m not Jewish:

Israel.

That’s where all my family lives. That’s where I grew up. That’s the country I want to see continue to exist so I can exist.

Palestine should exist too as an independent state. And I hope to see the country thrive and become less extreme and more prosperous. I love Palestine and have invested in Palestine.

But it’s not my home.

So from today forward,
I view myself as an “Israeli-Palestinian”.

Israeli first.
Palestinian second.

Sometimes it takes a shock like this to see so clearly.

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The state of our brokenness https://t.co/VUdaURSH3G

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

This is a direct endorsement of settler violence, drawing a clear connection between the right's plan to remove checks on power and the determination for Palestinian ethnic cleansing.

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Diaspora Jews: Time to take a stand https://t.co/3r1MQhZ1SD via @timesofisrael