Y. Boruch Sufrin

Jewish Speaker’s Bureau; Educational Leader; Rabbi, Lecturer; Author; Consultant; Author; Speaker; Covenant Leadership Award Recipient

[Y. Boruch Sufrin @rabbisufrin]

@YakiAdamker כל הכבוד בתור אחד שנחשב חרדי גם כן שהכרזת בפטריוטים שחייבים לחגוג היום גם כן וזה לא סותר להיות גם גאה במקור שלך מחסידי גור. חג שמח!

[Y. Boruch Sufrin @rabbisufrin]

@Yahrtzeits If not for his founding TomcheinTmimim the entire Underground Yeshiva system in soviet union would not come about and indeed the future of chabad on world stage all eminates from his vision. A trues visionary

[Y. Boruch Sufrin @rabbisufrin]

I just published the 10th episode of “Super Charge Bitachon” on @podbean https://t.co/j99q5RUHQh

[Y. Boruch Sufrin @rabbisufrin]

@AID_Coalition No way!

[Y. Boruch Sufrin @rabbisufrin]

@Yahrtzeits He was my sandak!

[Today's Yahrtzeits @Yahrtzeits]

3 Kislev: R'Meshulam Yissaschar Ashkenazi of Stamford Hill, London (1994). Known as the Stanislaver Rebbe.

[Y. Boruch Sufrin @rabbisufrin]

Excited to be travelling next week to Santiago Chile to visit the Maimonides School. Travelling to consult under the auspices of Unit-Ed. Privileged to be able to support their next steps in their strategic planning amd growth. #education #consulting #strategic

[Y. Boruch Sufrin @rabbisufrin]

@drpatrick @latimes I renewed my subscription to the LATimes because of this decision. I cancelled it four or five years ago due to its liberal bias. I like a newspaper that serves the whole LA community both left and right amd middle. This decision is commendable

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מפגין פרו ישראלי בלונדון מפתיע את הכתב עם אמת שהוא אף פעם לא שמע

הבחור הזה צריך לעשות הסברה!

(מערוץ היוטיוב j tv קישור לסרטון המלא באנגלית בתגובה הראשונה)

[Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby]

After the attack, Rabbi @ASufrin escorted me away from the melee in the streets, brought me to safety and gave me water. I never saw his face, until I reviewed the footage. He didn’t know who I was, and I didn’t know who he was, but he helped me any way.

I do not possess the ability to thank this man and the others who came to my side enough. You’ll see an EMT who came to help me run off through the melee to help another person who had been hit. These people are heros.

[Y. Boruch Sufrin @rabbisufrin]

Tefillas Ha'Sheloh - תפלה מהשל"ה הקדוש - https://t.co/8EEPtWtSdk https://t.co/nZTGA1TQrp

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel

It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime.

Denis is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and was a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Here's his letter to the students.

TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association.

May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote.

I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel .

That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby.

Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking of a hatred that
permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is
this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel , precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for.

It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of.

Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is.

That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population).

In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why
aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa .

Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.

On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.

In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid.

Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home.

It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief.

Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the
Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?

University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak.

I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.

Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , and Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that
protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on?

The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side.

Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and
that is to protect them from one-sided argument.

They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it?

Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence.

It's up to you to find out more.

Yours sincerely,

Denis MacEoin

[Y. Boruch Sufrin @rabbisufrin]

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[Elise Stefanik @EliseStefanik]

The ICC is an illegitimate court that equivocates a peaceful nation protecting its right to exist with radical terror groups that commit genocide.

Congress must pass my bill with @chiproytx , the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, that will punish those in the ICC that made this baseless undemocratic decision.

@nypost: "Rep. Elise Stefanik demands sanctions on ‘illegitimate’ ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant bid"
https://t.co/mErFRc4OkM

[יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog @Isaac_Herzog]

The announcement of the prosecutor at the ICC is beyond outrageous, and shows the extent to which the international judicial system is in danger of collapsing.

Taken in bad faith, this one-sided move represents a unilateral political step that emboldens terrorists around the world, and violates all the basic rules of the court according to the principle of complementarity and other legal norms.

Hamas’ leaders are oppressive dictators guilty of launching mass murder, mass rape, and mass kidnappings of men, women, children and babies.

Any attempt to draw parallels between these atrocious terrorists and a democratically elected government of Israel - working to fulfill its duty to defend and protect its citizens entirely in adherence to the principles of international law – is outrageous and cannot be excepted by anyone.

We will not forget who started this war, and who raped, butchered, burned, brutalized, and kidnapped innocent citizens and families.

We will not forget our hostages whose safe return should be the main concern of the international community.

We expect all leaders in the free world to condemn outright this step and firmly reject it.

[Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט @naftalibennett]

ICC, shame on you. Defund the ICC.
בושה לבית הדין בהאג. לעצור את המימון עכשיו.

[The Jewish Voice @TJVNEWS]

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[Yosef Silver @ysilver]

To any of those kids that didn't get their pick - Know that it hurts right now. Know that it will be ok. I was one of those kids, it was rough at the time but it was all part of G-d plan, and I am so thankful for the path it set me on. Hindsight is a gift.

To the parents, don't be afraid to fight for your kid. My mother did it for me. I've done it for my kid. And ultimately, you are going to know what is best for them.

Shabbat Shalom.

[David/Dovid Bashevkin @DBashIdeas]

Tonight for many many teens in NJ was a tough night.

Acceptances were sent out for all of the Jewish high schools.

Some kids got into their school of choice. Others got into a school but not their first choice. A few may not have gotten into any high school at all.

Firstly, for any teen and their families tonight who received difficult news, I am so sorry. Being rejected always stings and can feel embarrassing and painful. Such experiences are never welcome, but don’t let it paralyze you.

No acceptance, high school, friend group, will ever be the sole determinant of your yiddishkeit. Don’t ever forget that as painful as a high school rejection can feel—it was a high school that sent the letter. Not the Jewish people, not Judaism and certainly not God.

לְבִלְתִּי יִדַּח מִמֶּנּוּ נִדָּח

Your place in the eternal of story of the Jewish people is a lifelong process that always remains in your hands. Don’t let any letter, school, institution, or organization tell you otherwise.

I’ve been rejected from many places I thought held the key to my future. Little did I know it was in my hands the entire time.

No matter the setback or disappointment, keep growing and believing in yourself and your place within the Jewish people.

Sending love and prayers for continued resilience.

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