Below is the sermon I gave last Shabbat at Temple of Aaron. Please note that there is a paper that has been submitted to the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards with credited sources and a version of that can be found
Shabbat Shalom
Part of the reason these mobs have been able to riot illegally is because of the threat of one word: Islamophobia.
The extreme tactics of those creating these encampments and related protests are unacceptable at every level.
You have the opportunity to show your kids, show your family, that when the time came, you stood up for what’s right.
The Columbia administrators have clearly lost control. Their cowardice and inability to act has ceded the campus to the antisemitic mobs, who delight in making Jewish students feel unwelcome and unsafe.
What we are seeing at Yale and other so-called “elite” or Ivy League universities has brought shame to American society.
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