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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community I caught up with Leah, who had just spent the last few hours running from fridge to oven, and sink to...
Author’s note: The following are the prepared remarks for the speech I gave at the West Hempstead Solidarity Rally on Sunday, December 17.
The veil of academia was punctured last week when Congresswoman Elise Stefalnik (R-NY-21) shredded the presidents of three major universities with a simple question: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews constitute harassment on your campuses?” Astonishingly, none of the university presidents were able to simply say “yes.” This caused a tidal wave of backlash, and that should only be the beginning.
Chanukah is the story of a Jewish army regaining control of the nation’s holiest site and reasserting sovereignty and autonomy in a Jewish land. Chanukah is, in short, the most ardently Zionist holiday in the Jewish calendar. So it is tragically hilarious that so many are using this holiday to call for the end of the Jewish state.
When I teach American Jewish History at Touro College, one of the highly recommended books for the course is Hanukkah in America by Dianne Ashton, which features the National Menorah on the lawn facing the White House. The book documents how a minor religious holiday became the most visible expression of Jewish identity in America, with the participation of presidents who hosted Hanukkah ceremonies at their official residence.
Since the unprovoked savage attack by Hamas terrorists on October 7, and the declaration of war on Hamas by Benjamin Netanyahu that evening, the free world and, in particular, the Western media, has been fixated on proportionality. Given this fact, one might question the legal and moral definitions of proportionality.
Henry Kissinger, who died last week at the age of 100, was the first Jewish Secretary of State and arguably the most powerful Jew in American history. But was he good for the Jews?
