Continuity requires boundaries, depth and the courage to teach children that their inheritance is not optional even when the surrounding culture feels warm, generous and irresistible.
Antisemitism does not intensify because Jews defend themselves. It intensifies when institutions teach society that targeting Jews carries no cost.
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove finally said aloud what too many communal leaders have been afraid to confront.
Hate against Jews is hate. Say it. Mean it. Enforce it. Or stop pretending this institution has the moral confidence to protect the students in its care.
Bread is one of Judaism’s oldest civic technologies. It binds memory to practice, heritage to the week’s rhythms.
Do not convert synagogues into battlegrounds and then call it justice.
Jewish leadership must move from statements to strategy and empower our children to hold the line.
Jewish safety depends on clarity, memory and the courage to see reality as it is, not as we wish it to be.
Defending Jewish students does not weaken free speech. It strengthens it by ensuring that every student, regardless of faith or background, can participate fully in campus life.
The synagogue is not a campaign rally, and the rabbi is not meant to be a partisan pundit.
