Rabbi Steven Burg

CEO of Aish. Addressing global challenges w/ Jewish wisdom, ethical clarity, & respect for history, faith & human dignity. Proud Husband & Dad of 6 Amazing Kids

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Prime Minister @netanyahu just arrived at the Kotel. Aish roof is closed until after the visit. May he find solace and inspiration there.

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MY MESSAGE TO OUR AISH ERBER FAMILY GESHER GRADUATES ENTITLED:

“THERE IS A GOD WHO LOVES YOU”

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Perhaps the most revealing detail was that Zohran Mamdani proudly promoted his participation in the Pakistani Day Parade. Yet while willing to associate himself publicly with Pakistan, he has remained silent about the well-documented reality of bonded labor and modern-day slavery that traps countless Christians and other minorities there. This is also the country where Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks that killed thousands of New Yorkers, was able to hide for years before being found by U.S. forces.

The contrast is striking. Mamdani has repeatedly refused to participate in Israel Day celebrations and rarely misses an opportunity to criticize Israel. When it comes to Pakistan’s human rights abuses, there is silence. When it comes to the Jewish state, there is condemnation. New Yorkers are increasingly noticing this double standard. Moral outrage that is selective is not moral leadership. The hypocrisy is becoming impossible to ignore.

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The irony here is difficult to miss.

Mayor Mamdani quotes Tehillim, celebrating the words, values, and traditions of the Jewish people, yet seems unwilling to acknowledge the historical reality from which those very words emerged.

Tehillim was written nearly 3,000 years ago in Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish kingdom under King David. Long before the modern State of Israel existed, there was a Jewish nation, a Jewish capital, Jewish sovereignty, and Jewish literature rooted in that land. The very Psalm he cites is part of the enduring record of that history.

One cannot celebrate the spiritual legacy of King David while denying or minimizing the national story of the people he led. The Jewish connection to Israel is not a modern political invention. It is the backdrop against which Tehillim itself was written.

New Yorkers also cannot help but notice another contradiction. This is a mayor who has participated in the Pakistan Day Parade, representing a nation that harbored Osama bin Laden for years after the murder of thousands of New Yorkers on September 11th, yet has declined to participate in the Israel Day Parade, celebrating America’s closest ally in the Middle East and the homeland of the Jewish people.

Quoting Tehillim is easy. Acknowledging the historical truths embedded within it requires greater intellectual honesty.

King David’s words still inspire millions today. So does the enduring connection between the Jewish people, Jerusalem, and the land of Israel. Neither can be separated from the other.

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@RationalSettler Mazel tov!!

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Zohran Mamdani’s message to Jews isn’t new. It’s a 234-year-old bargain:

“To the Jews as individuals, everything. To the Jews as a nation, nothing.”

That was the promise of emancipation in Revolutionary France: you can succeed, belong, even thrive… as long as your Jewish identity disappears.

Mamdani’s worldview follows the same pattern. Celebrate the Jew who assimilates into your ideology. Reject the Jew who stands proudly as part of a people, a history, and a nation.

It’s the same contradiction as loving American culture while despising America itself.

Jews have seen this before. Acceptance conditioned on surrender is not tolerance. It’s erasure.

That’s why showing up at the @Israel Day Parade matters. It’s a declaration that we are not merely individual Jews seeking acceptance. We are one people, bound by a shared history, destiny, and homeland. In a time when many would prefer Jews divided and isolated, we demonstrate something more powerful:

We are stronger together.

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I took a Cybercab quite a few times in LA with @Waymo and it completely changed my perspective. Driverless cabs are absolutely the future.

I’d go even further in the not-so-distant future, most people probably won’t be driving themselves at all.

The tech, business, and policy worlds need to get behind this now, because the countries and companies that resist it are going to get left behind.

The technology is already incredible. The real question is how quickly governments realize this future is inevitable and start aligning regulations to support it.

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@Abdilahi2019 @Abdirahmanirro @RepOfSomaliland @Sakariahmed @Somaalilanders @netanyahu @POTUS @nivcalderon @dannydanon @gidonsaar @HananyaNaftali I have a Somaliland flag in my office in the Old City of Jerusalem. I am happy to raise it for you!

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This is disappointing. The Governor thinks he can split hairs by accusing Israel of war crimes while stopping short of calling it genocide. The pro-terror protest factions will still come after him anyway. Accusing Israel of war crimes with zero proof and zero understanding of what Israel is facing is immature, reckless, and deeply unfair.

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@ShaykhSulaiman Ummm, because Israel is a Democracy and Iran is a dictatorship that supports terror worldwide and persecutes its own citizens.