Social Worker, Stage Manager, Stage Mom, Writer, Fangirl, Proud Snowflake; #AKF; (she/her)
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Debra 💞 retweeted
END OF AN ERA: An iconic New Jersey racetrack announced that it will be closing after 170 years. General Manager Howard Bruno tells News 12 that racing can no longer continue under the current circumstances. bit.ly/4d8WsE5
#News12NJ #NJ #NewJerseyNews
WTF would anyone spend more than $80 on that?
In his new post, @jensenackles is wearing a @gucci Black Hawaii Hoodie that sells for $1,250 at ClothBase.
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A menorah lighting in Williamsburg, Virginia was cancelled because organizers claimed it would send a message that the festival was "supporting the killing/bombing of thousands of men, women, and children.”
Jews have been celebrating Hannukah for more than 2,000 years. The holiday commemorates a time when enemies tried to deny Jews their religious freedom.
Don’t let the irony get lost on you.
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Debra 💞 retweeted
Israel was established in 1948. But Jews lived in the region for thousands of years.
Before Israel existed, here’s what Jews in the Middle East could NOT do:
1. Ride horses.
2. Be eye level with Muslims.
3. Had to pay tax not to be murdered and pillaged.
4. Could not testify against a Muslim in court.
5. Could not bear arms.
6. Could not move freely after certain hours.
7. Couldn’t dress without imposed Jewish symbols (like the yellow stars we saw in the Holocaust.)
In 1941, my grandma survived the Farhud. It was massacre against the Jewish community of Iraq, encouraged by the Nazis. Thousands of Jews were attacked by a mobs, which was backed by the Iraqi government.
My grandma had to flee Iraq - they even took her citizenship. So did with other 150,000 Jews.
Today there are no Jews in Iraq.
They were ethnically cleansed.
This didn’t just happen in Iraq. Jews were ethnically cleansed throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
Almost a million Jew ran for their lives. The only place to take them wasn’t America, or Britain— it was Israel.
Israel saved my Iraqi mother and my Tunisian father.
It will continue to save Jews from everywhere else.
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With Nazi sympathizers on the right and Hamas sympathizers on the left, where are Jewish Americans supposed to go?
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Debra 💞 retweeted
Alyssa - I hope that you have misunderstood and that your tweet isn't willful. The people you heard want peace. Those who chanted "No Ceasefire" would happily accept a ceasefire if Hamas surrenders and releases all of the 240 hostages they are keeping underground.
Here is what they won't accept:
- A ceasefire that leaves Hamas in power in Gaza.
- A ceasefire that allows Hamas to carry out another act of mass-rape against Israeli women.
- A ceasefire that leaves our babies - some less than a year old - in terrorist captivity.
- A ceasefire that condemns the elderly to languish further without their medicine, wheelchairs or hearing-aids.
- A ceasefire that means Hamas can once again slay a pregnant mother, cutting a baby from its womb while lopping off the breast of another.
- A ceasefire that gives Hamas a chance to again rape a teenage girl over and over while forcing her 94-year-old Holocaust survivor grandmother to watch.
- A ceasefire that creates another opportunity for Hamas to slay hundreds of young people partying at a peace festival with rockets and RPGs.
- A ceasefire that could envision Hamas returning to family homes again, tying up the kids and the parents separately, setting them on fire, their dying thoughts of the loved ones opposite them burning alive.
You see, Alyssa, the people in that crowd care about humanity. And not just about the humans from multiple countries who are held captive by Hamas, or even 'just' about the Israeli victims of the barbaric October 7th massacre.
They also care about Palestinians. Yes. I live in Israel. We teach our kids to cherish peace and then when they go off to serve in the army (without which we would cease to exist), the first thing they are taught is the 'Purity of Arms' - the ethics of war - how to cherish life even when you must fight. The IDF do everything in their power to avoid harming civilians, even while Hamas deliberately places them in harms way by hiding under them.
We do not want war, neither us Israelis nor the hundreds of thousands of Americans that you witnessed yesterday. Far from it. But when faced with the barbaric men of Hamas - who, like ISIS, detest everything all people of goodwill stand for: peace, freedom, minorities and the womens rights you cherish - we must fight.
The fire will cease in one of two ways: Hamas will be vanquished. Or they can surrender and release the innocents they have stolen. But until that happens - a ceasefire would be a betrayal of all we - and I believe you - hold dear.
Debra 💞 retweeted
This is probably one of the best videos I’ve ever watched related to the whole book banning controversy. Please watch it through.
I know the whole school book banning debate is a very divisive topic with many strong feelings on both sides, but I think the issue is that most Americans can only see the world through their own eyes, and they don’t take the time to understand what somebody else might be feeling or thinking.
Max made these statements in front of a Mom’s for liberty meeting.
Can anyone actually argue against his argument here?
Video thanks to @ThatLogicMax
Debra 💞 retweeted
For a while now, I’ve been seeing full-page ads for Brandeis University in The New York Times magazine and thinking it was curious that they did not mention Jews or Judaism. I guess that’s over now.
