October 1, 2026 A Shabbat Message from our Executive Director Rabbi Loren Sykes It was very quiet, as it always is at 5:30 am on Shabbat in Jerusalem. By 6:29 am, my dog, Hamilton, and I were back from our morning walk, my coffee was ready, and I was on the couch reading the Friday newspapers. […]
September 29, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS – VOICES – STORIES MAKING NEWS Anti-Jewish Bias Puts Patients at Risk Healthcare is bound by a basic vow: do no harm. Across America, some doctors, nurses and therapists are breaking their oath and the law when the patient is Jewish or Israeli. Several of […]
September 23, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS – VOICES – STORIES MAKING NEWS Obsession with Israel Blinds the World to Widespread Suffering When rapper Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour after accusing Israel of ‘genocide’ on stage, all other opening acts pulled out of the tour in solidarity. Sheeran said […]
September 15, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS – VOICES – STORIES MAKING NEWS UN & NGOs Hijacked Meetings to Launch Libel Campaign Against Israel Malicious accusations of genocide against Israel did not begin with the Hamas-Israel war. The 10/7 massacres were a catalyst in a conspiracy that began 25 years ago in […]
September 9, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS – VOICES – STORIES MAKING NEWS Moral Courage and Commemoration: Remembering 9/11 on Rosh Hashana This year marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11 – the largest terror attack on U.S. soil. The date also falls on the eve of Rosh Hashana – the beginning of […]
September 1, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – STORIES MAKING NEWS Alarming Levels of K-12 Antisemitism Demand Response A classmate told a Jewish ninth grader at a California high school that he hopes the boy’s “entire family burns in hell” and that Hamas kills them all. Administrators dismissed the student’s […]
Choosing to be a Blessing or a Curse Parashat Ki Tavo portrays a binary world: blessing or curse. The verses about the blessing include this exhortation: “And you shall enjoy, together with the Levite and the stranger [ger] in your midst, all the bounty that the Eternal your God has bestowed upon you and your […]
August 25, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – STORIES Antisemitism Moves from Encampments into Classrooms This summer, a college in Oregon agreed to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and hire an independent outside monitor to keep watch over its campus – one of the most sweeping campus antisemitism settlements […]
August 18, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – VOICES – STORIES When Prayer Needs Protection, No Faith Is Truly Safe Prayers turned into shouts as an assailant forced his way into New York City’s Central Synagogue during Friday night Shabbat services on Aug. 14 and attacked a congregant and a guard. An […]
August 11, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – VOICES – STORIES Never Believe Hamas, Except When It Comes to Murdering Jews Twenty-five years ago, at Jerusalem’s Sbarro pizzeria, 8-year-old Chaya stood in line to order beside her father, sister and brother on a family outing when an explosion ripped through the packed […]