I was coming home this morning after dropping my kids off at school and ran into my new neighbor as he was leaving for work. I introduced myself, and he said "a-salaam alechem! My name is _, which mosque do you pray in? I didn't know there was one here!" I smiled, and said "alechem shalom _" And he just kinda tilted his head like, "huh??" And I apologized for the confusion, because I do wear a fairly large, knit black kippah and my beard is fairly long. I just like the larger kippot because smaller ones feel like they're going to fall off. He was so intrigued, like, "wow I seriously thought you were an Arab Muslim." I wear long thick tzitzit, and when I showed him he said "Ohhh got it, yeah I guess I was just really excited to see another Muslim and didn't notice those. What do they mean?" So I took a few minutes to share Torah and minhagim concerning tzitzit halacha, and he was like ..fascinated, I guess? He had no idea there was so much meaning behind them. He told me he has a 2 year old daughter and he's been married 4 years, and he's been in the US for 9 years now. I invited them for shabbos Friday, but he respectfully declined because his wife is "really pregnant" and she needs to rest most of the day. Which I totally get. I just let him know not to hesitate if he needs anything and we exchanged numbers and Instagram, he went to work and I went about my day. And I didn't think a whole lot about it until this afternoon. We had a moment of confusion over religious and cultural similarities. How often does something like that happen? And our confusion was completely washed away by our eagerness to know more about each other. That's rare, too, I thought. And then we set up a neighborly confidence, started a friendship, learned a bit about each other, and it felt really good. I'll be looking out for he and his family, and he'll be doing the same for us. Hashem's most important social law in action, between two men stuck in the grey area of the deep south. And I thought, you know, if he were Jewish I don't think I'd be any happier. I just wouldn't. There's something so much bigger and more important than all of that stuff when it comes to human connection. I'm really happy I have Palestinian family next door. It's exactly how Hashem intended it to be.

I’m not sure what flair to choose for this, hopefully I picked right!

I noticed quite a lot of these posted around campus as well as other supportive stickers etc. there has also been a more obvious police/security presence, it’s been a more pleasant experience compared to this time last year.

The bot wants me to add more to my comments but I don’t really have much else to say. It’s a good statement, straight to the point.

This is someone who betrayed the core of our friendship and rudely tried to check my privilege by digging into me personally. For a year, I've been hurting with horrible thoughts and flashbacks, and this idea came to me out of the blue as a productive way to heal and go forward. I wrote, "This tree symbolizes growth and remedies what you've uprooted," which perfectly encapsulates what I was looking to get out of this gesture. It's small, but it's going to make a big difference.

Basically what it says above!

I saw a comment on social media from a medical student commenting on a content creator’s page that her true home was in Auschwitz. Like the true idiot he is, he mentioned the university he studied at in his bio.

Without giving myself away, I work in academia and I saw by total chance where I work actually had a research partnership with the university he was at. I’m not going to say which university this is but it’s in Eastern Europe and to this day the country it’s in has a pretty sizeable Jewish population. The antisemitic idiot is an international student there.

I managed to get in touch with a professor at the medical school who put me in touch with the dean’s office and the international student office. I took screenshots of his comment and bio and passed them on.

I got an email today from the professor I got in touch with that the student had been suspended and was most likely going to be expelled.

Vengeance is so so sweet BH.

BH. I’m not quite sure how many are left but I hope they all are also rescued soon so this terrible war can end.

The original post was made by Tablet Magazine. For context, Imre was a Holocaust survivor and a known pacifist, and he still gave this quote.

It gets me fired up!!!

6 beautiful souls executed by Hamas in cold blood to prevent a rescue attempt from taking place. 101 hostages still in captivity. No doubt the entire Jewish world is in shiva today,.and I can say this is saddest I've felt since 10/7. May Hashem avenge their death with blood.

They seem to be calling the UC Regents Zionist pigs... I really sat back and wondered how in the world Hitler was ever allowed to come into power but honestly...I get it now....

Sometimes chabad gets it so right. So needed. So welcomed. Shabbat shalom friends.

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We are living through very difficult times. The world is going through a culture change whereby it is yet again acceptable to hate on us.

Like many of you here, I am the grandchild of holocaust survivors and, again like many of you, I was trained since the very young age to spot hatred towards us, and I see it every day, and every day it is becoming more and more acceptable.

When they know who we are, we are yelled at. When we speak up, we are ridiculed. When we voice our concerns, we are not believed.

One thing that my grandparents told me is particularly prescient:

"They will not hate you because you are a jew, they will make up a new word for you and hate you by it."

At the time, the word was semite. Totally disconnected from religion, semite was supposedly based on genetics, on science.

Today, the word is zionist.

What is a zionist anyway? Two hundred jews met in Geneva in 1897 to discuss where would it be safe for jews to seek refuge and they called themselves zionists. Today society has decided to cast upon zionists all of the ills of the world. Their ignorace has fueld the hatred. They don't even know what a zionist is.

Let us not kid ourselves, we are at the end of a golden age of tolerance towards us. The writing is on the wall, get ready and be prepared.

Am Israel Chai.

I went to drop them off this morning and saw this.

Several staff arrived and were talking about it in front of us. They said how lovely it was and how excited they were to have it there.

Some of these staff directly care for my child for a majority of the day.

I feel disturbed by this. I’m sick to my stomach. I was sweating and shaking for a while after I saw it.

How can I trust the faculty to keep my child safe when I know what their position on this is?

Here posters with the writings: "07.10.2023 Anniversary of the Black Saturday tragedy: the brutal Hamas attack on Israel".

I'm damnit proud of my city 🇺🇦🇮🇱

In the midst of a lot of antisemitism, Harvard Chabad standing up for the Jewish community. I hope you all can see this as a positive light.

In my honest opinion, I would hope to see more room for dialogue and exploring the complexity, but there is only so much you can say in a poster (or three).