Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦

Rabbi at Young Israel of West Hartford (@youngisraelweha)

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

Eloquent words from our Sr. Senator and an important example on how to be a mentch (dignified human being).
Our society would be so much better off if we could value even the people we disagreed with!!

[Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal]

I am shocked & deeply saddened by Lindsey Graham’s passing. I will forever remember our last lengthy conversation this weekend, when he exulted at reaching an agreement on our Russian sanctions bill & said, ‘this is a big effing deal—we all did good.’ 1/

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

This week, we consider what the broken vav in Parshat Pinchas - the crack inside the Torah’s word for peace and wholeness - teaches us about this sacred American moment.

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[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

On America’s 250th birthday, we are called to do more than just celebrate.

We are called to ask what it means to be grateful without being naïve, proud without disappearing, and committed to a country whose greatness lies not in perfection, but its pursuit.

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

👀 Finally says Eruv Committees across the country

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

One dollar: Huckabee gives Foreign Minister Sa’ar a symbolic payment after the signing of the land allocation agreement for the permanent U.S. Embassy building in Jerusalem.

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

Proud to share this important piece. Hate and intimidation have no place here, and silence in the face of it cannot be our response. We are better than this!!
Please read and share!
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(Full text also here: https://t.co/kMaoSFv6IS)

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

I’ve been on hold for 8 hours and counting — @JetBlue HELP!!

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

@JetBlue trying to sort out my flight. Site keeps glitching and been on hold for 3 hours on both phone and online chat! HELP!

[AJ Edelman @realajedelman]

Olympics time... But first...

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

If, as @mijalbitton wrote in those early dark days, “that pain you’re feeling — that’s peoplehood,” then today — the joy and the tears of relief we feel — that, too, is peoplehood.

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@dansenor

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

The picture we all dreamed of....

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Together again

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Together again

[נדב איל Nadav Eyal @Nadav_Eyal]

Seeing the tens of thousands of Palestinians return to their homes in northern Gaza, one can only remember the endless accusations against Israel: that the war was about displacement, ethnic cleansing, settlements- that these are supposedly the 'real' aims. Now the war has ended, Israel sees itself as victorious, and none of these goals has been achieved. How is it possible?

Here's the truth: Israel was trying to prevent Hamas from controlling Gaza and, primarily, trying to get its hostages back.

I’ve spent so many words in international media explaining that this war could end in minutes if Hamas agrees to return the hostages. But that ship had long sailed; the war was not portrayed by most of the international journalists or politicians as a war at all.

Israeli military casualties were almost never reported. It was presented as an onslaught, a massacre - no security aim, no reason, just death, reigned by Israelis with no purpose. Now, the hostages are returning, and the war has suddenly stopped. Will they remember that forgotten connection?

Hostages were always at the heart of the legitimacy of the war- for Israel, the U.S., and the international community. True, far-right and some Likud elements in the Israeli government had other (dangerous) dreams. The Prime Minister allowed those to be discussed and addressed. Yet these were never the consensus or a real option.

Recap: Hamas first refused to give up control of the Strip. Then, it refused to release hostages before full IDF withdrawal. It then refused disarmament. Now it agrees to all of these conditions. Echo chambers that cheered Hamas’s radical demands were obsessed with indicting Israel rather than ending the war and saving lives.

With all my criticism of Netanyahu and the missed opportunities to end the conflict, this was never about endless war. I write this no to defend him, but to explain the Israeli society. one only needs to know Israelis and witness the scenes of joy now, with this ceasefire, to understand that this is a people that wanted their lives back. Mainly, they wanted the hostages home and to know Hamas isn't a threat anymore.

President Trump, in a true demonstration of state-of-the-art statecraft, made it happen. He will forever be regarded as a hero in Israel.

Those who amplified Hamas’s demands are now silent- or even condemning the agreement. For them, it’s never been about Palestinians. It’s about hating Israel and Zionism to the point of being willing to sacrifice the last Palestinian so that their argument demonizing Israel will prevail.

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

@JimmyTsunami Remind me, which of us have a photo of a murderer as our @X cover pic? Right - not me.

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

Embargoing the only democracy in the ME in favor of the Hamas terror group defies logic, rewards those who wish to kill Americans! Raising my voice as part of hundreds across the country to say NO!

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

full page ad in the Charlotte Observer signed by more than 100 rabbis calls on Jews “not to support or collaborate with North Carolina's Democratic Party leadership until they renounce” their executive committee’s arms embargo on Israel resolution.

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

full page ad in the Charlotte Observer signed by more than 100 rabbis calls on Jews “not to support or collaborate with North Carolina's Democratic Party leadership until they renounce” their executive committee’s arms embargo on Israel resolution.

[AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @AIPAC]

This you, @UNRWA?

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

This was certainly not on my 2025 Bingo card - @RealCandaceO slanders and defamed R’ Riskin with a completely bogus claim that he offered Bitcoin to pastors to speak against her.
#beyondcrazy

[Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander @RabbiBrander]

Candace Owens’ claim that Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is offering pastors Bitcoin to speak against her and Tucker Carlson is completely false and defamatory. We expect a retraction and a formal apology.

Our full response is below:

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

Agree or disagree, this sort of analysis should not be considered brave — it should be the default.

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

I served on the National Security Council under President Clinton. I was Joe Biden’s Deputy Staff Director of the Senate foreign Relations Committee. I voted for Kamala Harris and have been a vocal critic of many dangerous and undemocratic actions taken by President Trump.

But I’m not a blind tribalist and am perfectly comfortable praising President Trump for bold and courageous actions in support of America’s core national interests, as he took last night.

Iran has been at war with the United States for 46 years. Its regime has murdered thousands of American citizens. Its slogan “death to America“ was not window dressing but core ideology. It was racing toward a nuclear weapon with every intention of using it to threaten America, our allies, and the Middle East region as a whole.

No actions like this come without risks, and I imagine the story will get more complicated over time, but that’s why these types of decisions are complicated.

Although I believe electing Kamala Harris would have been better for our democracy, society, and economy, as well as for helping the most vulnerable people in the United States and around the world, I also believe VP Harris would not have had the courage or fortitude to take such an essential step as the president took last night.

[Rabbi Tuvia Brander 🟦 @TMBrander]

Senator @ChrisMurphyCT — Do you want to take this one?

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

An Israeli hospital was directly hit by an Iranian missile this morning.

When Israel was forced to battle Hamas, who make hospitals in Gaza their headquarters, the world was outraged for weeks.

For Israeli hospitals used for nothing more than treating the sick, will there even be a whisper?

[US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum]

Exploiting the Museum and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to sanitize “globalize the intifada” is outrageous and especially offensive to survivors. Since 1987 Jews have been attacked and murdered under its banner. All leaders must condemn its use and the abuse of history.