In an age of heightened tension, it's reassuring to find faith leaders like @arilavi who respect each other's faiths and support the Jewish people. Amen 🙏👏
Faith lives in the heart, not the head. That is where the Quran and the Jewish tradition meet.
This week in Surah al-Baqarah, verses 6 and 7 describe people whom no warning can reach, because God has set a seal upon their hearts. The commentators explain that a heart becomes sealed only after a person closes it, again and again.
Read that as a Jew and it sounds familiar. The Zohar says something close: the heart is the inner altar where faith either lives or is shut out. You cannot argue a closed heart into belief.
New episode of People of the Book this week.
@HilzFuld Yes to Aliyah! I moved from Riverdale (like yourself) and highly recommend it to Jewish New Yorkers before the violence, facilitated by Mayor Momdani, worsens.
Boy George’s "We Will Dance Again" was released in solidarity with Israel and the victims of October 7. Instead of reporting the song, @Euronews and @guardian turned his refusal to adopt entertainment’s anti‑Israel line into a scandal—presenting disputed claims as fact and downplaying Hamas’ atrocities.
https://t.co/i18c2DS7rH
@columbiafsi@Columbia That's quite an achievement worth amplifying across student worker groups across the nation. Bravo Columbia Jewish students for your bravery and perseverance. May you be blessed and protected.
As a new olah in Israel, I found this @IDIisrael article helpful for understanding how the parliamentary coalition and opposition parties confront 4 major electoral issues: 10/7 accountability; the nature of the state; the role of the haredi, and the role of Arab Israelis.
ISGAP’s Founding Director and President, Dr. Charles Asher Small, will be speaking at a brunch event hosted by Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on Sunday, March 29, addressing the topic “Antisemitism, Academia, and Qatar.”
During the presentation, Dr. Small will examine Qatar’s influence on education in the United States and the role foreign funding has played in shaping narratives and promoting anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-democratic ideologies within academic institutions.
👉🏽Visit the link in comments to register! We look forwards to see you! ❤️
Ready for a mind-blowing and oh so timely (i.e. urgent) lecture?
Chai Mitzvah Scholars Circle presents The Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism (ICSA):
“Antizionism: The History of an Ideology,” a free six-part lecture series!
Next up:
Prof. Jeffrey Herf
“Secular and Religious Forms of Antagonism to Israel: Nazis, Soviets, Islamists”
Tuesday, March 10
7-8 PM Eastern time
Register here: https://t.co/HzQwLhld97.
And please spread the word!
Those who pre-register will have access to a recording afterward if they cannot make it live.
ICSA produces and promotes critical scholarship on the history, evolution, and contemporary manifestations of antizionism, as an ideology, a worldview, and a movement. For more information, visit the website https://t.co/mVUMEjIt1i, follow on X @InstituteCSA, and subscribe to the free substack, https://t.co/2GX9lZnKVx.
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As one of many Jewish and Israeli faculty, staff, students and alumni at @Columbia, who have been demanding that the administratration condemn and investigate "CUAD,” it's about time! Investigate CUAD's espousal of anti-Western and pro-Hamas propaganda and the faculty and students who overtly or covertly empower CUAD. https://t.co/HBbOXiaeBm
#1 terrorist state, Iran, was severely weakened today by the joint US - Israeli elimination of Iranian leaders. The world will be safer, soon, for the Iranian people and all targets of radical islamist (not Islam) hatred, ie, Jews and our global allies.
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Reclaim Zionism.
It’s the most effective antidote to Orwellian inversion of fact & law, the result of decades of systematic demonization, delegitimization, double standards - that collapse the post WWII international rules-based order & foundations of democracies.
It’s the most effective strategy to reclaiming & preserving identity, memory & hope - that totalitarian terror & tyranny, sowing fear, despair, & distrust - intend to quash.
It’s the most effective protection from rising threat to “freedom, humanity, and that dignity of difference” that in the words of the late @rabbisacks, antisemitism is the most reliable sign.
Words from 2022, that attempted to sound sirens to the existential moment were in, with rising urgency for clarity & courage. https://t.co/EaoTHdc9wI