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January 27, 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day was chosen by the UN because it is the day in 1945 when the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was finally liberated after the world woke up too late to the extent of Nazi atrocities. In 1942, a week earlier in the calendar, the Nazi leadership had convened… Continue reading

Antisemitism, Calendar, Community Relations, Current Affairs, Education, Equality, Ethics, GLBT, History, Holocaust, Inclusion, Justice, Leadership, Shoah, Tikkun Olam, Tzedek, USA, Yom Hashoah, Youth

April 29, 2019

My Letter After Poway

This is the letter I wrote our congregation today. Dear Friends: Once again we are mourning and raging after an anti-Semitic attack on a synagogue over the weekend. Lori Gilbert Kaye was a dedicated member of Chabad of Poway, and she was killed as she tried to protect Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was injured. Almog… Continue reading

Antisemitism, Calendar, Community Relations, Current Affairs, Freedom, History, Holocaust, Inclusion, Interfaith Dialogue, Islam, Justice, Leadership, Prayer, Shoah, Terrorism, Tikkun Olam, Tzedek, USA, Yom Hashoah

May 3, 2011

On the Death of Bin Laden

Dear Friends: On Sunday night, we learned that Osama bin Laden is dead. By coincidence, the announcement came on Yom Hashoah, the day we commemorate the Holocaust and remember those who died at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. As a New Yorker for more than a decade when the Twin Towers fell,… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Holocaust, Shoah, Yom Hashoah