Style & Living

President Donald Trump and his administration have long been on a path to diminish Palestinian declarations of statehood. The Trump administration recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel, and in a historic move relocated the American embassy to Yerushalayim. David Friedman, US Ambassador to Israel, is recognized for engaging the White House on such a transference, and must be commended for his painstaking efforts since assuming his position.

The recent comments by freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib during a podcast have been discussed thoroughly in the Jewish, and non-Jewish, community. Tlaib, who spun an ahistorical lie that the surviving Jews of the Holocaust were welcomed with open arms by her Palestinian ancestors, has her defenders in the Democratic Party. The nefarious aspect of the defense tactics is not claiming that she is right; rather, they attack the criticizers themselves. By doing this, their goal is to silence their opponents, and this silence has a history all its own.

“Not only one has risen against us to annihilate us, but in every generation they rise against us to annihilate us.” These words, recited during the most emotional point of the Pesach Seder, still ring true, despite the incredible freedoms American Jews enjoy. Six months after the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, last week another shooting occurred at the Chabad in Poway, California. A few days earlier, The New York Times published a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as a big-nosed dog with a Jewish star necklace leading a yarmulke-wearing, blind President Trump. Anti-Semitism rears its ugly head in many forms, and American Jews must be knowledgeable of who our enemies are and where they come from if we are to continue to survive.

New York

Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim from 111 countries converged on Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway on Sunday for the annual group photo,

Shelly Levine, founder of Tivuch Shelly and one of Israel’s most respected real estate trailblazers, is traveling to the NYC tristate area, New Jersey, and other locations throughout the US to meet with families, investors, and community leaders who are looking toward Israel with renewed clarity and purpose. With decades of experience building thriving Anglo communities across the country, Shelly is bringing both new and existing projects in Israel directly to American Jewry, at a time when interest has never been higher.

Recap: Evie is teaching her new friend Rikki how to skate. Rikki invites Evie for supper, and Evie is happy to go to avoid Mr. Cohen, who is coming to her aunt’s house for supper.