What are Jewish Leaders saying lately? Thought for 13s Jewish leadership is not speaking with one voice, but the dominant institutional line in the last few weeks has been blunt: Jews are being targeted for being Jews, anti-Zionism is being treated as a respectable cover for that targeting, and institutions that stall on it are failing a civil-rights test.The majority institutional messageIsrael’s Foreign Ministry just hosted the J50 Forum of diaspora leaders. A central goal was a joint declaration that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, framed against “the global tide of antisemitism and the attempts to isolate and delegitimize Israel.” timesofisrael.com ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s 2026 State of Hate remarks and later comments keep returning to the same point: Jews were murdered this past year in multiple countries; 55% of Jewish Americans in ADL polling said they experienced antisemitism directly; hiding Jewish identity in ordinary settings is now common. He has also said anti-Zionism is antisemitism, full stop. adl.org More than 700 rabbis from Reform through Orthodox signed a letter after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani called AIPAC “monsters.” Their line: criticizing Israeli policy is not antisemitic; treating millions of Zionist Jews as illegitimate or dangerous is, and it puts a target on American Jews. timesofisrael.com The Conference of Presidents condemned a recent wave of U.S. attacks—smashed synagogue windows, mobs in Jewish commercial districts, Jews chased in Los Angeles—as hate crimes, not “protest.” conferenceofpresidents.org Israeli President Isaac Herzog called antisemitism a “contamination of societies” that starts with Jews and never ends with them. He tied some political rhetoric (including Mamdani’s) to putting Jews at risk. foxnews.com That is the through-line that matches what you said: leaders keep insisting the attack is on Jewish existence and peoplehood, not only on a cabinet in Jerusalem.California and campusesJewish California’s CEO, David Bocarsly, has called faculty-union efforts to roll back campus protest limits and weaken K-12 antisemitism rules a “sustained campaign targeting Jewish students.” Brandeis Center and StandWithUs have been suing districts and the state over hostile classrooms and delayed investigations. ADL’s 2026 campus report card shows many schools improved on paper after pressure; Greenblatt’s line is that grades rose where administrators treated antisemitism as a will problem, not a branding problem. Some Jewish UCLA faculty, however, opposed the latest federal lawsuit and said it mischaracterized protest as antisemitism. So even inside one university, leaders split. jweekly.com The dissenting Jewish voicesAlmost 200 Jewish actors, academics, and religious figures signed a letter this week defending Mark Ruffalo and accusing others of “weaponizing antisemitism” over Gaza-genocide language. That camp argues mainstream Jewish organizations are shrinking legitimate criticism of Israel into a loyalty test. It is a real, public split—not the majority of federations, rabbis, or security-focused groups, but not fringe either. haaretz.com What they keep repeatingJews are being hit for existing and for having a state, often without any inquiry into the victim’s politics. Dehumanizing “Zionists” or “AIPAC” functions as a modern blood libel when most Jews are Zionist in the basic sense of supporting Israel’s existence. Schools and universities still apply a higher burden of proof when the source of harassment is progressive or pro-Palestinian. Security and law enforcement are necessary; so is Jewish education that is not only Holocaust memory. That is the current map: a large institutional consensus that the suffering is for being Jewish, a smaller progressive Jewish counter-consensus that the bigger danger is over-policing speech about Israel, and California still one of the main battlegrounds for which view institutions will enforce.
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I am wondering though are there physicists who say time is completely man made and is not real. Thought for 6s Yes — some physicists say that, but almost none mean “time is a made-up calendar like money.” They mean the flow, the global now, or time as a fundamental ingredient is not in the basic laws. Clocks, aging, and change still happen.Einstein already wrote that for physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is “only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” He meant there is no single moving present for the whole universe. He did not mean clocks are fake. physicsworld.com Julian Barbour is the blunt case. In The End of Time he argues there is no flowing time and no hidden time axis. Reality is a heap of complete “Nows.” What we call history is structure inside a Now (a “time capsule”), not travel along a line. Motion and passage are how we read differences between configurations. That is as close as a working physicist gets to “time is not real.” It is a minority view, taken seriously as a research program, not as settled fact. en.wikipedia.org Carlo Rovelli is the most visible living voice. He has written that time does not exist at the fundamental level: loop-quantum-gravity equations need no time variable; past and future look the same in microscopic laws; the “flow” is largely how a coarse-grained, heat-sensitive brain sits inside rising entropy. He also says our experience of time is not a mere error — it is real for us, like the sky “turning” because Earth rotates. So: not fundamental, not man-made from nothing, but perspectival. theguardian.com Others nearby, not identicalPage and Wootters: in a globally frozen quantum universe, “evolution” is entanglement with a clock subsystem. Nima Arkani-Hamed and many quantum-gravity / holography people: spacetime itself is probably emergent, not basic. Lee Smolin often disagrees with full timelessness and defends a real present; useful as a contrast. What almost nobody in physics claims: that seconds, cesium clocks, or “Tuesday” are arbitrary social inventions with no physical correlate. Units and calendars are human. Duration, causal order, and proper time along a worldline are not.So the accurate map is:Claim Who Status No universal flowing now Einstein, most relativists Mainstream Time not in the deepest equations Rovelli, some quantum gravity Active research Time is only an illusion; only static Nows Barbour Minority, discussed Time is a human convention like money Almost no physicist Not a physics position Your “time doesn’t exist” slogan sits nearest Barbour and popular Rovelli. The field’s careful version is: the thing we feel as a river is not a basic piece of the world; change and clocks still are.
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For decades, the mainstream Jewish community and conservative Christians often found themselves on opposite sides of domestic cultural issues. However, the aggressive overreach of radical activist networks in public education has shattered old political divisions, forging an unprecedented, highly effective coalition [10.1].This unexpected alliance works in practice through three major common interests:1. A Shared Stand for Parent Rights and TransparencyThe underhanded tactics used to advance curricula like San Francisco’s Voices—such as midnight votes and copyright shields—alienated Christian families just as much as Jewish families.Breaking the Monopolies: Conservative and Christian legal networks have joined hand-in-hand with Jewish advocacy groups to mandate total educational transparency. They are deploying joint resources to demand that public school boards publish every single reading list and lesson plan online, permanently dismantling the ability of radical administrators to hide their work.Electoral Force: In suburban communities like Fremont and across Silicon Valley, Christian, Jewish, and immigrant parent groups (such as East Asian and Indian coalitions) are combining their voting power [10.1]. They are pooling campaign funds to systematically remove radical progressive officials from local school boards and replace them with moderate, transparency-first candidates.2. Uniting Against the "Oppressor vs. Oppressed" FrameworkTraditional Christians and Jewish advocates share a fundamental rejection of radical identity-based theories that divide children into rigid moral categories based on race or religion.Defending Basic Values: Both communities view the "Liberated" framework as an assault on universal values, meritocracy, and individual character. Christian parents refuse to let their children be taught that their faith or traditional values are inherently oppressive, while Jewish parents refuse to let their children be targeted by biased political dogmas.3. Bipartisan Legislative and Federal EnforcementThis alliance has successfully elevated local school board grievances into historic federal and state-level protections.The Right to Worship Act: Just days ago, on August 6, 2026, a major bipartisan, bicameral coalition led by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Representative Tom Suozzi (D-NY) introduced the federal Right to Worship Act. Backed heavily by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), this bill establishes strict 100-foot protective buffer zones and heavy civil fines to stop hostile activist crowds from blockading or harassing congregants outside houses of worship.The Federal Crackdown: The Trump administration’s upcoming 15-city DOJ task force and FBI deployment is heavily cheered by red-state conservatives. They view the federal audits into deep-blue California municipalities as the ultimate enforcement of civil rights, proving that local progressive immunity expires where federal law begins.The progressive establishment completely miscalculated. They assumed they could isolate Jewish families by using anti-racist language, but their reliance on secrecy and radical tactics instead forced a historic real-world alignment. Mainstream Jews, traditional Christians, conservatives, and diverse immigrant communities have formed a massive, united front—permanently forcing the radical movement into a corner as the legal guardrails close in [10.1].
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