Sheila Berlinger

Supervisor Elem Mathematics-Montgomery County Public Schools; LOVES: Caps, Nats, Terps, the beach, shopping, reading and Maj...

[Deputy Mayor Kaz Daughtry @kazdaughtry]

Pencils, books, laptops, those are the tools of students and what you expect to find on a college campus. But here’s what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves inside the building. Gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on TERRORISM. These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious. Thankfully, your NYPD was able to prevent whatever they were planning and stop them before they could do it. Continue to peacefully and lawfully protest; but know that if you engage in illegal conduct, the NYPD will hold you responsible and hold you accountable—someone has to.

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[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

@NHL Thank you for recognizing Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Did you know May is ALSO Jewish American Heritage Month? Please consider broadening your support.

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

@FOX19 @Local12 @WillieGeist @WCPO @wlwt
The event pictured below has been approved by the U of Cincy. Jewish student fear is growing and the university is sanctioning hate-based activities. Please elevate what’s happening to Jewish students around the UC campus.

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

@WillieGeist @Local12 @wcpo @WLWT

Jewish students at UC are becoming increasingly victims of harassment and threat. Please take a look at this IG post by a campus – sponsored organization. This event and flyer had to be approved by the University.

https://t.co/ybF7l58GHb

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

The state of Israel was envisioned not so that “Never Again”, but so that “Never at all”. The genius of Zionism and Theodor Herzl is that he understood well before many others that Europe would not be able to live up to its noble ideals of equality and fraternity when it came to the Jews. He therefore made the powerful case, known as Zionism, that the Jews had to constitute themselves as a sovereign people in their own state, in their own land, if they are ever to be able to walk as equals among the nations.

Thanks to the vision of Herzl - both his ability to identify early the impending danger to the Jews in Europe and his genius in constructing a path forward for his people and setting up the infrastructure and institutions - and the Jews who rallied to his vision, the Jewish people had an embryonic state already in the 1930’s, with institutions and international legitimacy through the League of Nations Mandate.

Consider the following: the Jewish people already had the basis of a state that could have been home to millions of Jews who were desperate to get out of Europe, which as Herzl presciently saw, failed, in the most gruesome manner, to live up to its noble ideals when it came to Jews. There could have been a State of Israel which would have participated in the 1938 Evian Conference, where no nation was willing to accept the Jews, and say “we want them”.

But one thing Herzl failed to see, which transformed the state of Israel from one that should have been “Never at All” to “Never Again”: the brutal Arab violence against the establishment of a state for the Jews in any part of the land, that began already in the 1920’s. This brutal violence, no different from the massacres of Hamas, led the British, rather than to be more resolute in their carrying out the mandate they received from the League of Nation, to betray it, and close the doors of Jewish immigration to the embryonic state that was created for them and which was waiting for them to come.

As a result what could have been perhaps “only” the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the European continent, became a full scale genocide with the “Final Solution”. We can know that with relative certainty, because only two decades later, when the Arab world conducted its own thorough ethnic cleansing of its Jews (and these are communities that often predated Islam and the Arab conquests of North Africa and the Middle East), the majority of them escaped to Israel. This time, there was a sovereign Jewish state that could open its gates and ensure that at least for the Jews of the Arab world it was “Never at All”. And so, the Jews in the Arab world suffered massacres and “only” ethnic cleansing, rather than a full scale genocide.

And now, in the face of the brutality and viciousness and wanton glee at the massacre of our people in our land we are now saying “Never Again, Again”. We know now that we will never feel fully certain that we can keep this promise fully and completely, but what is clear is that we cannot afford to ever again underestimate the true face and consequences of the hatred we are facing.

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

Goooo UC! #Bearcats

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Spot on. Perfectly stated.

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

Read closely.

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

Many years ago, when I was still a Member of Knesset on behalf of the Labor Party I was sent on a mission to the European Parliament to meet with our “fellow” socialist members (that’s when I still naively thought that the socialist left was the ally of Israeli Labor…). After leaving one meeting with a senior member from Germany who spent the entire meeting lamenting Israeli evil, I turned to the Israeli EU Embassy staff member and said: “I get it, it’s clear, they still can’t handle what they did to the Jewish people, and so they need to find a way to cleanse their sins by retroactively projecting onto Israel all of their sins. So let’s just be done with it, we’ll tell them we forgive them in return of them just leaving us alone.” The wise staff person responded, “but you know what will happen: they’ll pocket our forgiveness and keep projecting their sins on us. They need this too much to let go”.

And this is the context for the the complete submission of so many on the left in media and politics to the Hamas lie that it was Israeli attacks (no, it was another Gaza terrorist group - Islamic Jihad) that destroyed a hospital (it didn’t, not even close, it was the parking lot) and led to hundreds of innocent dead (the figure is not grounded in anything).

For eleven days now, pillars of the global left from the “Squad” to Corbyn to many in the media had to deal with the collapse of their entire theology, which placed unique Israeli/Zionist/Evil at the core of their worldview. Without this one certainty of their political lives they do not know how to be in this world. It is the one idea that gives sense and order to who they are.

But the glee with which Hamas terrorists and “ordinary Palestinians” (remember Daniel Goldhagen’s “Ordinary Germans” also known as “Hitler’s Willing Executioners”?) proceeded to engage in the greatest possible atrocities against families and people of all ages from babies to grandparents, was to them first and foremost a massacre of their entire theology. They did not know who they were anymore without “Evil Israel”. They especially could not handle the terrifying possibility that evil lies on the Palestinian side - the people whom they have elevated to Jesus like sacrificial and saintly status.

And so the lie handed to them by Hamas that included all the elements they needed - Israeli evil, innocent Palestinian victims - allowed them to restore their theology. All was right with the world again. Israel/Zionism/Jews were thereby restored to their proper place in their theology as the epitomes of unique evil.

This is the reason why the intense energy released was not simple of tribal loyalty, or “anti-Israel bias”. Rather, it was the collective relief of people whose entire worldview was endangered for eleven long days, and which they - thanks to the failure of Islamic Jihad and the lies of Hamas - could finally restore.

[Andy Hausman @Ahaus101]

Read it and absorb.

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

@AugensteinWTOP NED is our BEST friend!!

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

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[Nationals Bullpen Cart @NatsBullpenCart]

Annual #MLBTradeDeadline reminder: any rumors about me being included in a package deal are untrue. I have an ironclad no-trade clause in my contract.

[Chris Suazo @chrissuazoX]

When I drink coffee, I feel better. Smiling and carrying on is the goal. #coffee #coffeetime

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

@scorebook_bob Hmm okay. I’m looking for the sun!! ☀️😂

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

@scorebook_bob Bellinger‘s AB was a single? Not E6? Thoughts?

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

@QOHSPrin_Thomas @MCJEA23

[Beth Thomas @Thomas4Leaders]

Celebrating Jewish American History Month (JAHM) is an annual recognition and celebration of American Jews' achievements and contributions to the United States of America during the month of May.

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

“Just go 1-0 today”

[Nats Chat Podcast @Nats_Chat]

In terms of following the rebuild; our recap of Sunday's win will be "Chicken Soup for the #Nats Fans Soul"

[Chris Suazo @chrissuazoX]

Even though I have many flaws, I press on, mug of coffee in hand. I refuse to give up. #coffee #coffeetime #sundayvibes

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

@AugensteinWTOP @FDAOncology Dr Google isn’t always our friend…

[Sheila Berlinger @SJFteach]

TIL….