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Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt is the columns editor and editor of the JNS Wire.

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, has suggested that Jews take on an extra mitzvah in the merit of the hostages.
In the district that includes the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn—home to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement—Adams trounced opponent Curtis Sliwa, receiving 15,340 votes to 1,503.
“Someone came and tried to make Jewish students feel attacked; our response was to do the opposite,” said Rabbi Yudi Steiner, director of the Rohr Chabad at GW.
“As a native Texan, this breaks my heart,” said Rabbi Kelly Levy of Congregation Beth Israel. “We will be compassionate and resolute because our love for humanity strengthens our resistance to hatred.”
Rabbi Yudi Steiner, director of the Rohr Chabad at GW, said “what I’m hoping to do today is lead by example and model how I think the Jewish response, from Jewish students especially, should be, and that is what we will talk about the rally.”
In the last two years, day schools and yeshivahs reported an enrollment increase of 3.7 percent, with more than 40,000 children from kindergarten to grade 12 enrolled.
A member of the anti-Semitic Goyim Defense League stood atop a highway overpass not too far from the Dell JCC, gave the Nazi salute and unfurled a banner that read “Vax the Jews.”
“That one in four American Jews has been the target of anti-Semitism over the past year alone, and that four out of 10 have taken steps to conceal their Jewishness or curtail their activities as a result should alarm Americans,” said AJC CEO David Harris in a statement. “Now is the time for American society to stand up and say ‘Enough is enough.’ ”
More than 30 museums throughout Alaska have also expressed their solidarity with the Jewish museum, issuing a letter of support, and against bigotry and anti-Semitism.