Dan Elbaum
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President & CEO of @JewishAgency - North America - Proud alum of @ajcglobal & @adl . Working every day to connect the Jewish people to Israel & each other.
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Please take a moment to watch this video and see why I am so excited to be joining the
@JewishAgency
!
Meet our new Head of North America and President & CEO of Jewish Agency International Development (JAID)
@dan_elbaum
, and discover why he’s so thrilled to have joined The Jewish Agency:
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🧵- the hardest thing that I have ever written.
I never thought I would say what I am about to say.
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For anyone who thinks that some are overreacting to Joe Rogan's joke about Jews and money, consider that Ilan Halimi and Mireille Knoll were murdered in 2006 & 2019 because their killers thought that all Jews have money.
This isn't a joke - it is a clear & present danger.
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OTD in history, Jesse Owens won the 1st of 4 gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Coincidentally, I re-watched the 2016 film Race last night while running (ok jogging) on the treadmill.
Did the US IOC make the right decision in participating in the games in Nazi Germany? 👇
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As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, I have spoken a lot about the wrongness of comparing anything to it.
I still believe that - mostly
That being said, other than scale, I see 1 major difference between the Nazis and members of Hamas
The Nazis tried to hide their crimes
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Today, I visited the
@JewishAgency
Aliyah center in Warsaw, a hotel filled with Jews who fled the war. Most grabbed whatever they could before leaving. At the hotel, we provide them with food, clothing, shelter- whatever they need. Here, they hear a primer on life in Israel.
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I have reached a sad conclusion. As much as I would not like to give up on a single Jew, I have given up on them. For me, they are deserving of “cherem” (formal exclusion from the Jewish people)
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I hope that some day they see what they have become and offer some repentance. I am not that religious a person, but I do pray that God forgives them for their actions. I, for one, do not believe that I ever will.
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The founding of Israel is one of the most remarkable accomplishments in human history. But avoiding inconvenient facts does a disservice to that story.
@noamlweissman
& I wrote about why we’re telling the full story + tackling the tough questions
@ejPhil
:
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I am talking about American Jews who say that killing the act of 1,400 Jews was consistent with the “Palestinian right to resist” and blamed Israel for the loss of life,
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Yesterday I met Lilli and her family who fled their home & stayed at 14 different places as they drove through their war torn country until they crossed the border.
Now they are safe since they’re making Aliyah… as soon as they find a cage big enough for their 100 pound dog!🐾
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Unlike Hamas who would have joyously murdered them on October 7, I do not consider them Jews.
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I’m in awe of the people I meet here!
Tanya was born in St Petersburg, Russia. She didn’t know that she was Jewish till she was 18.
Today she volunteers with The
@JewishAgency
in Budapest to help Ukrainian Jews.
When I asked her why, she said “how could I do anything else?”
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Before you just dismiss Kanye’s performance today as just the rantings of a mentally disturbed person, it’s worth remembering that history has some pretty clear lessons about the dangers of doing that.
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Pretty special.
This is the first booth a refugee will see when crossing the Medyka border from Ukraine into Poland.
#israel
@JewishAgency
#SavingUkrainianJewsLives
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A🧵about why I am going to
#marchforisrael
.
I work at
@JewishAgency
for Israel. Almost all of my Israeli colleagues know someone who was murdered and most have loved ones serving in the military.
I want to share a conversation I had with one of them that really stayed with me.
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I am talking about American Jews who call Israelis Nazis and accuse them of acts of genocide - knowing full well and even relishing the hurtfulness of those terms.
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Taking off for our nation’s capital for tomorrow’s
#MarchForIsrael
!
I will march for Israel.
I will march to free hostages.
I will march against antisemitism.
It’s not too late. Please join me. You will want to tell your children and grandchildren that you were there.
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I am talking about American Jews who proudly use a heroic image of a paraglider – lionizing the Hamas murders who came into Israel and murdered and tortured their fellow Jews.
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There will be a time in the future to wonder about how such people could have emerged from our community. It should involve introspection as to Jewish and Israel education. But for now, there is nothing to be done with them.
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I am talking about American Jews who question whether the atrocities committed against Jews are accurate or propaganda and use phrases and terms that sound remarkably like Holocaust deniers.
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I am talking about American Jews who have taken down pictures of Israeli hostages.
I could go on...
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After a weekend of Jewish Covid conspiracy theories and lies about Israel being racist, I am so excited to go to DC this week to see President
@Isaac_Herzog
address a joint session of Congress.
Forget the background noise, this is a historic moment that we should savor.
🇮🇱🇺🇸
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Since October 7, when 1,400 Jews were slaughtered, I have been overwhelmed by the unity and support for Israel of the global Jewish community. I have spent every day fielding phone calls and meeting with American Jews who want to do all they can for their fellow Jews in Israel.
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I have also seen another group of American Jews. They are a minority, a fringe, but they are vocal and make their voices heard in a disproportionate manner. These include, but are not limited to, members of
@IfNotNowOrg
&
@jvplive
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Thursday's thought - If Israel had a Mount Rushmore, who are the four Israelis you would put on it?
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To be very clear, I am not talking about American Jews who have expressed sympathy for Palestinians or have criticized Israeli policies.
I am also sympathetic. I have also been critical.
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Indeed, it has been this response from American Jews, that along with the bravery and sacrifice of the Israeli people, that has given me the strength to function as a professional and a human being.
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I got a lot of nice feedback from my piece 'Three Things We Do Wrong When We Talk to Our Kids About Israel" I also got some suggestions of what I didn't mention.
With thanks to the critics, please see 3 more suggestions to connect your kids to Israel.
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I want to be clear that this post represents my views and not any organization with which I am affiliated or have been affiliated. I have spent, and will continue to spend, my professional life, seeking to advocate for Jewish unity and connecting all Jews to Israel and each other
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President Biden’s offhand comment about Israel making Jews safe didn’t get that much media attention. But it took me back 125 years. My latest in
@Jerusalem_Post
:
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With young American Jews feeling disconnected from Israel, Golda Meir’s legacy is more important than ever.
I wrote in
@JNS_org
about Golda’s incredible story - and why it should matter to all of us today - ahead of the new
#GoldaMovie
release this week:
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This has been a challenging year but Hanukkah is the time when we celebrate miracles and victories over adversity.
So I’m challenging myself to reflect on
#8lightsofHanukkah
this holiday and naming 8 things that give me hope. Please share yours too - I’d love to hear them!
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For the 4th night of Hanukkah, I am highlighting
@jewishagency
subsidiary Amigour which operates 57 housing projects in Israel with over 7500 seniors- many of them Holocaust survivors.
Allowing them to live their last years with dignity is the least we can do.
#8lightsofHanukkah
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Some of you are seeing anti-Israel sentiment in your news feeds today. I just visited a
@JewishAgency
Pre-Army Academy where Arab&Jewish Israelis work together & learn about each other’s culture.
Don't believe the hype. Israel's diversity is real and no report can undermine that
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I have sung Hatikvah 1000's of times. I've never been as moved as when I sang it at a synagogue in Gondor, Ethiopia.
This year, 3000 Ethiopian Jews fulfilled the 2000 yr old hope to be a free people in our land, the land of Zion & Jerusalem.
Am Yisrael Chai!
#8lightsofHanukkah
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On the final night of Hanukkah, I want to acknowledge our supporters who make it all possible.
Thank you
@jfederations
,
@khuia
,
@CUFI
and our donors around the world. You are truly indispensable in all that we do to protect and connect Jews everywhere.
#8lightsofHanukkah
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It’s easy to find reasons for pessimism in this past year. But when the history of 2022 is written, I suspect that its first few chapters will be about how the global Jewish community accomplished miracles together. I wrote about one in particular
@JNS_org
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Welcome to this new citizen of Israel as she joined 110 other Ethiopian Jews in first setting foot in the Jewish state.
Wishing her a life of happiness and peace.
Am Yisrael chai!
Welcome home! Today, as part of the continuing
#OperationZurIsrael
, a group of Ethiopian olim came home to Israel. Our Chairman
@almog_doron
was waiting on the tarmac to welcome them with open arms, along with our Chairman of the Board Mark Wilf 🇮🇱
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The saddest day in the Jewish calendar, Tish'a B'Av, marking the destruction of both temples, starts tonight.
The sages explain that the temples were destroyed because of infighting among the Jewish people.
Let us resolve to not allow history to repeat itself.
Am Yisrael chai.
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This picture is in my office. I look at it a lot.
It is my grandmother’s class in Seylish, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) She’s in the second row, 4th from right.
Nearly every one of those kids were murdered for being Jews.
Israel has to defend itself. No one else ever will.
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Keeping the Israeli people close to my heart as I watch the news.
It seems long ago that President
@Isaac_Herzog
spoke before Congress.
Yet his words about hope & faith seem even more relevant today. I have hope & faith in Israel, and always will.
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This man is
@JewishAgency
royalty.
Micha Feldman was one of the chief architects of the 1991 operation that brought nearly 15,000 Ethiopian Jews out of Addis Ababa in 1 weekend during a civil war.
Ethiopian Jews simply call him "Aba Micha."
What an honor to be here with him.
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As my friend
@AviMayer
points out, isn't it interesting that the same people who demanded 10 forms of proof that Hamas murdered babies (they did) are immediately willing to accept the same terrorist org's word about who destroyed the hospital?
Perhaps this isn't about the truth.
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"For G-d’s sake, he was the first man off the plane at Entebbe."
I had a great time talking with
@Mike_Wagenheim
of
@JNS_org
about how excited I am that Doron Almog will be the next chair of
@JewishAgency
.
Check out the story here.
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Let's see what you've got this week...Tuesday Torah Question!
Test your Torah knowledge and try to answer this past question from the annual Bible quiz started by
@jewishagency
& the president of Israel.
Anyone? ✋
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We’re in Addis Ababa with 215 Ethiopian Jews who will make aliyah today and be reunited with family in Israel after years of waiting.
@JewishAgency
is here with
@jfederations
leaders to help bring them home 🇮🇱
#OperationZurIsrael
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What an honor to receive this award from
@AEPi
.
What an even greater privilege to be able to meet these amazing young men & alumni.
I owe a great deal to my fraternity & am so impressed with the students who advocate for 🇮🇱 & fight antisemitism.
Today & always
#proudtobeapi
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100 years ago today, the League of Nations approved a home for the Jewish people in Israel & called for the creation of “a Jewish agency” to secure the cooperation of all Jews in this goal.
A century later,
@JewishAgency
is still hard at work & commited to our sacred mission.
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"The other week, someone tried to kill me. I don’t know who he or she was, and I likely never will."
Please check out and share my piece in
@Jerusalem_Post
about the urgent need for new shelters in
@JewishAgency
absorption centers and retirement homes.
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Here we go again...who knows today's Tuesday Torah Question?
Test your Torah knowledge and try to answer this past question from the annual Bible quiz started by
@jewishagency
& the president of Israel.
What've you got?
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On night 6, a big shout out to
@MasaIsrael
& the incredible immersive experiences in Israel they provide for young Jews from around the 🌎.
The data could not be clearer - the longer you go to Israel, the more connected you feel:
#8lightsofHanukkah
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Tuesday Torah Question!
Every year there is a Bible quiz for all Jewish students around the world. The quiz was started by
@JewishAgency
& the president of Israel.
Let's have some fun! See if you are "smarter than a high school student" & try to answer this past quiz question!
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This is your daily reminder that the head of the Philadelphia
@NAACP
posted this picture on social media over a week ago and still has his job.
The silence from the national office of the “largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation” is deafening.
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I’m ending my visit to the field by joining an Olim (immigrant) flight tonight from Budapest to Israel.
This brings tears to my eyes, thinking of my own family history while I accompany these olim to safety where they will start their new lives in Israel.
@JewishAgency
@AJCGlobal
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After 11 incredible years, today is my last day at
@AJCGlobal
. Next Monday, I will become Head of North America for the
@JewishAgency
and president & CEO of JAID. I will have a lot to say about my new organization soon, but I'd like to say a few things about AJC today.
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For night 5, I am highlighting
@SparkIL_
& the interest free loans they give to Israeli small businesses.
Whether it's Hassan, a Druze bee keeper or Ziva, a single mother with a Judaica store - it's a little help that makes a big impact.
#8lightsofHanukkah
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And we're back with a hard one this week!
Test your Torah knowledge with this past question pulled from the annual Bible quiz for high schoolers started by
@jewishagency
& the president of Israel:
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“To be a free people in our land.”
Yesterday we sang Hatikvah in Gondar, Ethiopia. Today we sing with more than 200 Ethiopian Jews as they stand on Israeli soil, their new home, for the very first time.
Welcome home.
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“During history’s darkest hour, the world turned its back on them… Today, we must rededicate ourselves to assuring that our survivors are more than a political symbol.”
Please see and share my piece on our continuing obligations to Holocaust survivors.
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Jewish Voices for Peace activists have chosen to harass the good men and women of
@IsraelinChicago
this morning.
Remember, these are Israeli diplomats working far from home during the darkest time in their nation's history.
Since my friends at the consulate are diplomats, let…
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This proud new citizen of Israel joined 264 other Ethiopian Jews today in arriving at their new home.
So proud of the work The
@JewishAgency
has done to bring him & set him & his family up for success.
Israel is not perfect, but there is no other country that would do this.
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Ending the mission with a gift to my wife (who isn't on Twitter) whose dedication to our family allows me to make these trips.
100 percent of proceeds go to Megermeria that teaches new olim to make jewelry.
The symbolism couldn’t be more perfect
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It is difficult to explain how important Jerusalem is to Ethiopian Jews. It is part of their stories, expressions and every aspect of their life.
It was also interesting to face north when praying to face it!
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35 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian terrorists this year.
If my math is right, that is the equivalent of around 1,250 Americans & on pace to be over 2000 - not far off Pearl Harbor numbers.
Worth pondering the next time you see Israel condemned for defending itself.
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Wherever I go, parents ask me how to encourage their kids to feel connected to Israel.
I am pleased to share some of my secrets here in Jewish Chicago - The JUF Magazine
@ChicagoJCRC
.
Just don't tell my daughters! :)
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5 days, 6 flights, 3 countries, maybe 14 hours of sleep, and most importantly, 144 new citizens of the state of Israel.
As I head home to the states, I will be thinking of my new friend Rina and wishing her a wonderful life in her new country.
If you will it, it is no dream!
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Days before Holocaust Remembrance Day, we shouldn’t forget that 2021 saw more antisemitic incidents in over a decade, per the
#Antisemitism
report by
@jewishagency
&WZO
We need to remind our political leaders every day that antisemitism didn’t end in 1945
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.
@Penn
was founded by Ben Franklin, who donated to Philadelphia's synagogue & defended Jews as a newspaper editor.
It also started Hebrew classes in 1780.
In 2023, they will hold an antisemitic conference on Yom Kippur.
A true betrayal of their history.…
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The
@JewishAgency
for Israel announced the global Jewish population this morning on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
Here are five things you need to know:
A 🧵
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As her father, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
Thank you to Maura Moynihan for stating the fact that CUNY has not done enough to fight antisemitism.
Your father would be proud.
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So, I am going to
#marchforisrael
on Tuesday.
I will march for Israel.
I will march to free hostages.
I will march against antisemitism.
I hope the world hears us, but I really hope that Israelis see us and feel our support.
Please join me. It's important.
Am Yisrael chai.
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These
@JewishAgency
volunteers are my heroes.
They’re not paid. They’ve families & lives at home, yet here they are at a Polish border helping refugees & offering comfort to people who left everything that they’ve ever known behind.
“Sometimes you just need to give them a hug.”
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Torah Tuesday...Valentine's edition!
Who knows this one, a past question pulled from the annual Bible quiz for high schoolers started by
@jewishagency
& the president of Israel?
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Today, for
#8lightsofHanukkah
, I am thinking of our
@JewishAgency
emissaries who move across the 🌎 to connect Jews to Israel & each other.
I have a special place in my heart for our shinshinim (18 yr old) emissaries & the energy & smiles they bring.
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My youngest daughter is a camp counselor. Her campers are 6 years old Several of them were at the parade yesterday in Highland Park.
One of them hid behind a port-a-potty during the shooting. Another one ducked behind bushes. Several ran into Starbucks.
They are 6 years old.
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The issue of “who is a Jew” has been the subject of great debate within the Jewish community. Talmudic scholars, communal leaders and Israeli politicians have argued fiercely. All arguments had just one thing in common. No one ever said “I wonder what Rudy Giuliani thinks....”
No, Mayor, you’re not “more of a Jew than Soros.” You’re entitled to your views, and to denouncing his. But it’s offensive to deny anyone’s faith, and worse to endorse classically antisemitic conspiracy theories.
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I know that this is not worth it, but I cannot stop myself from asking a few questions to the person at
@IfNotNowOrg
who authored this tweet.
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It’s January 10 and I am staring at a sukkah.
The reason is that I’m in Kibbutz Kfar Aza where over 100 out of 700 residents were murdered, tortured & kidnapped by Hamas on Oct 7. Other than marking the sites of the slain, nothing has changed.
Here, every day is October 7.
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“My father told me ‘we’re leaving for Jerusalem tonight. Buy shoes, a jug for water and a shovel.’ When I asked ‘why a shovel’ he said ‘Because not all of us will make it.”
Listening to the harrowing stories of those who escaped during the 1980’s.
#OperationZurIsrael
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Bella is 87 and if from Odessa. When she was 7, she and her family fled by boat as bombs dropped on her city.
80 years later, she fled by boat as bombs dropped on her city.
She is going to Israel now with
@jewishagency
.
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Absolutely beautiful
@TheRestHistory
by
@dcsandbrook
&
@holland_tom
on
#Denmark
's rescue of its Jews during
#WorldWarII
- a rare bright light in history's darkest hour.
From the king to the gravedigger, we should always be grateful to the Danish people.
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Honoring our young people’s intelligence and capacity for nuance, we believe, is what it means to be pro-Israel.
Honored to join with my
@JewishAgency
colleague Joe Schwartz in today's
@eJPhil
to call for a new way to teach about Israel.
Check it out!
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25,000 German civilians died in the bombing of Dresden – did that make World War II unjust?
30,000 Confederate prisoners froze to death in prisons during the Civil War. Did that make that war unjust?
The death of innocents in Gaza is tragic. It does not make 🇮🇱’s cause unjust.
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It’s so sweet that my colleagues in Jerusalem think this is snow! 😀
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"If things are so good, why do they feel so bad?" I wrote about the challenges connecting American Jews to Israel at this moment, and why it's even more important for those of us who love Israel to help bring it closer & make it more accessible, in
@eJPhil
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Always a pleasure to read something I agree with in the New York Times!
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I’m in the air and there is major drama unfolding.
The flight attendants can’t serve drinks because we won’t get out of the aisles handing out candy. There is not an Ethiopian child who will arrive in Israel without a sticker book and a cavity.
#OperationZurIsrael
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"The story of Israel is about a fundamentally good people placed in a seemingly impossible situation who triumphed against all odds despite making mistakes along the way."
Check out my latest in
@eJPhil
about talking about Israel to the next generation.
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It makes me so incredibly grateful and happy to see my
@AJCGlobal
family support the life saving work of
@JewishAgency
!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to
@DavidHarrisAJC
and all of my former colleagues and forever friends at AJC.
Am Yisrael Chai!
An AJC-sponsored flight of Ukrainian Jews fleeing Russia‘s aggression just landed in Israel!
Facilitated by the
@JewishAgency
, over 100 Ukrainian Jews are now making Aliyah.
Never again will Jews feel isolated, abandoned, and homeless. 🇮🇱🇺🇦
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So is rat poison.
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There are some close calls in deciding what is antisemitic and what is hard hitting criticism of a nation’s policies. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
Naked antisemitism such as in this image is not “an error of judgment.” We have to wonder if the
@nytimes
editors would’ve published a similar cartoon depicting any other country or people.
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If this war is showing the worst of humanity, it is also providing us with real bright lights of human kindness. It is speaking truth to the wisdom of the sages that every Jew is responsible for one another.
Please see my latest in
@JPostOpinion
.
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At the budget committee meeting and thinking of my grandfather’s favorite Yiddish expression. “With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.”
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Please see (and share) my latest piece in the Times of Israel about the importance of listening to Jews before making pious pronouncements about what antisemitism is and what it is not.
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She then said if Americans and the rest of the world really knew about and remembered the acts of torture, rape, mutilation, and murder that took place on October 7, how could so many of them dispute or even question Israel's right to defend itself and deter further aggression?
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Today is the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht - the night of broken glass.
The civilized world was horrified. Many eloquent statements were made.
But no one saved the Jews.
Today, Israel protects its citizens.
And the world can make as many statements as it pleases.
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We Jews have tried to enlist the world’s sympathy– it hasn’t worked well for us.
In the words of
@YKleinHalevi
, “I prefer to be condemned rather than pitied.”
Israel will do what it must to defend its people. I will do all that I can to support them.
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No matter where I go, I get asked by parents and grandparents how to connect the younger generation to Israel.
Please check out this
@TimesofIsrael
op ed where I offer three things you can do.
They’re not easy, but doing something important often isn’t.
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