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Author: Jewish Pride, Reclaiming our Story and The Jews: An Indigenous People.
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Joined August 2018
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Exciting news! 🇺🇸📖
I'm thrilled to announce the upcoming special US edition of my latest book, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝘀: 𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲, featuring a new cover and a powerful foreword by the brilliant Dr. @EinatWilf.
Even better? The audiobook is on the way too. I’m recording it this week! 🎙️
Both will be released this Fall. Stay tuned!
This book is about reclaiming Jewish identity, unapologetically, rooted in history, indigeneity, and truth.
Thank you, as always, for your support. Am Yisrael Chai!
You’re the reason they don’t feel safe.
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.
Our safety and our thriving are tied together.
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Jewish behavior isn’t the cause for antisemitism, Jewish existence is. Despite the tremendous efforts that Jew-haters on this platform are making to convince us otherwise.
Tell us an everyone else you don’t know the difference between war and genocide.
And let it everyone remember, Hamas started this war by committing an actual genocide against Israel on October 7.
The front page of @ScotNational tomorrow is what every UK newspaper front page should look like.
But, as throughout the entirety of the genocide, it stands alone with a moral backbone, not afraid to tell the truth about the horrors the rest of the press whitewash.
FYI:
Sukkot, like every Jewish festival, is a manifestation of Jewish indigeneity. It is rooted in the Land of Israel: its seasons, its agriculture, its history and the ancient relationship between the Jewish people and our ancestral homeland.
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We hear as well - the crying of children whose parents are murdered in front of their eyes, Holocaust survivors kidnapped to the tunnels of Gaza, music festival goers who did no harm to anyone. We hear and remember them. And we will remember you Mr. Milliband as well.
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband: 'I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people. We hear you. You were right'
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Remember Tibet?
Think of the good the pro-Palestinian movement could do if it put the same energy into freeing a country that is actually colonised.
Successive UK governments have turned the country into a joke. This one is no different.
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What hogwash.
The Land of Israel is the Indigenous land of the Jewish people. Far from proving the point he thinks he is making, Cenk actually demonstrates how little he understands either Jewish history or Indigenous peoples.
The Jewish belief that God promised us the Land is not the evidence that Jews are Indigenous to Israel. It is a Jewish explanation for how the Land came to belong to the Jewish people and why our relationship with it is sacred.
And there is nothing unusual about that. Many Indigenous peoples understand their relationship with their lands through sacred traditions, creation stories and relationships with gods, spirits or a Creator. These beliefs do not somehow invalidate their connection to the land. They are part of how Indigenous peoples have understood, preserved and transmitted that connection across generations.
And Jews are no different.
Our connection to the Land of Israel does not depend on whether Cenk believes in God, accepts the Torah or believes God promised us anything. The Jewish people emerged in the Land of Israel more than 3,000 years ago. Our civilization developed there. Our language, calendar, festivals, sacred texts, collective memory and traditions, including Sukkot, are rooted in that land.
So the argument is not: “God promised Jews somebody else’s land, therefore Jews decided to take it.”
The tradition exists because an ancient people understood its relationship with its own ancestral homeland through a sacred framework, just as countless Indigenous peoples have done.
Cenk takes an Indigenous people’s sacred understanding of its relationship with its homeland and presents that very relationship as evidence against their belonging there.
The arrogance is extraordinary. His knowledge of Jewish history is abysmal. But Jew-haters are going to Jew-hate.
I left Britain in June. I am ashamed of the country it has become.
This is not just about the government, though government policy is part of it. It is about something else: a political culture, a public culture and a society in which Jews have increasingly been made to feel unwelcome in the country in which we were born.
A country to which we pledged our loyalty. A country in whose civic life we participated. A country we believed was ours too.
And it did not happen overnight. It happened over years, while too much of the population remained silent, looked away or, in some cases, actively participated.
The Britain I was born into does not exist anymore.
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Sukkot, like every other Jewish festival, is an expression of Jewish indigeneity.
It is an expression of who we are, where we come from and the relationship between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.
Sukkot is tied to the agricultural rhythms of the Land of Israel, to the harvest, to the seasons and to our collective memory as a people. The sukkah connects us to the journey of our ancestors, while the arba minim, the four species, connect us physically to the land itself.
And most powerfully, we are still doing it. Thousands of years after our ancestors first celebrated Sukkot in the Land of Israel, their descendants continue to build sukkot and gather the four species. Here in Israel, we do so in the very land in which these traditions emerged. In the Diaspora, Jews recreate these practices thousands of miles away, maintaining their connection to their ancestral homeland across centuries of exile and displacement.
Jewish indigeneity is not simply about where our ancestors once lived. It is about the culture they created there, the traditions that emerged there, the collective memory we carried with us and the relationship with the land that we maintain to this day.
Empires came and went. The Jewish People were conquered, displaced and scattered. We lived among other peoples and absorbed influences from the places in which we found ourselves. But we continued to orient ourselves towards the same land, speak its name, remember it, celebrate its seasons and preserve traditions born from it.
Sukkot is one of the clearest expressions of that continuity. It is not simply a memory of where we came from. It is who we are.
Cherem @ZackPolanski.
He is a Jew. That can never be taken away from him. But his views are so repugnant that he has moved beyond the boundaries of acceptable Jewish ideas. Those boundaries are broad and vast, we are a broad synagogue, and he has still moved far beyond them.
He has no place in our community.
The UN is one of the most consistently anti-Jewish organisations in the modern world.
Listen to the speeches coming from its General Assembly this week. Again and again, the Jewish state is singled out, demonised and treated by a different standard.
This is not new, it is the pattern. And we should name it for what it is: racism.
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan is a racist.
A modern day Nazi.
The jewish holiday Yom Kippur starts with a troubling prayer called Kol Nidre. It's a preemptive legal declaration that automatically cancels all personal oaths, promises, and vows. In simple terms, it allows jews to treat their words like garbage and cheat their spiritual obligations for the next 12 months.
Because of this exact loophole, Western and Islamic courts for centuries viewed the Kol Nidre with immense suspicion. They argued that if a community's most sacred holiday began with a formal legal decree wiping away their oaths for the next year, then a secular court could never trust a jew's testimony under oath in a legal trial or business contract.
European states even implemented the 'jewish Oath' (More Judaico). This was a separate court ritual that forced jewish merchants and witnesses to stand in front of a court and swear terrifying curses upon themselves before their testimony was legally accepted.
Yom Kippur also includes blood and animal ritual sacrifice.
The jewish story states that the priest would sacrifice a young bull and sprinkle its blood on the 'Mercy Seat' inside the 'Holy of Holies' in the 'temple'. This was supposed to atone for the 'priestly bloodline'.
Then 2 identical goats were sacrificed for the jewish people. One slaughtered inside the temple and its blood also splattered inside. The second goat, called the scapegoat, would be dropped off a jaggered cliff– alive.
The Mishnah (Tractate Yoma 6:6) records that the drop was so severe the animal was shattered into pieces before it even reached halfway down the mountain.
There's more.
After the blood rituals, two rams would be burnt on the outdoor altar. This is called a Korban Olah: a Burnt Offering.
Today, jews fast, pray, and some swing a chicken around their heads (Kapparot) instead. But most are not content. They want to build their animal and blood sacrifice ritual temple.
And they want to build it on the 3rd holiest site in Islam: the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque.
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Kol Nidre annuls vows to God only and has no effect on oaths or promises to other people or in secular courts. Modern Yom Kippur involves fasting and synagogue prayer, not animal sacrifices or efforts to rebuild a Temple for blood rituals on the Temple Mount.
britannica.com/topic/Kol-Nidr…
myjewishlearning.com/article/yom-ki…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur
jpost.com/judaism/jewish…
They may be Jews but they are not part of the Jewish community. We are a broad synagogue, but the synagogue has walls and they have moved beyond our boundaries.
Cherem them.
Shooting after shooting. Attack after attack.
The authorities refuse to act.
At some point, Jews in Canada and across the Diaspora must take our future into our own hands. Jewish safety, dignity and self-determination cannot depend on governments that refuse to protect us.
We must decide for ourselves whether we see a future in the Diaspora.
One year on from the horrific anti-Jewish terrorist attack in Manchester on Yom Kippur, Jew-hate across the UK has only intensified.
Yet Britain still refuses to confront the hatred that continues to consume it