We love ourselves too often and need reach out much more often. It is a social responsibility and it effects the environment also.
TO NAZI OR NOT TO NAZI? [Intro] Heil! Siegety Heil! Heil! Siegety Heil! Heil! (Heil myself!) Siegety Heil! Heil! Siegety Heil! [Verse 1] Well, hi there people, you know me I used to run a little joint called Germany I was number one, the people's choice And everybody listened to my mighty voice My name is Adolf, I'm on the mic I'm gonna hit you with the story of the New Third Reich: Well, it all began down in Munich town And pretty soon the word started getting around So I said to Martin Bormann, I said "Hey Marty Why don't we throw a little Nazi party?" So we had an election, well, kinda sorta And before you knew it, hello new order! To all the little mothers in the Fatherland I said "Achtung baby! I got me a plan!" They said "What you got, Adolf? What you gonna do?" I said "How about this one? World War II! [Chorus] To be or not to be Oh baby, can't you see We're gonna take it to the top You're making history And it feels so good to me Ooh darling, please don't ever stop Don't be stupid, be a smarty Come on and join the Nazi Party! (Come on today!) You might also like The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived Taylor Swift Springtime for Hitler (Broadway Version) Mel Brooks Springtime for Hitler Mel Brooks [Verse 2] Like Humpty Dumpty over that wall All the little countries they began to fall: Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Poland The troops were rockin' and the tanks were rollin' We were swinging along with a song in our hearts And Deutschland über Alles was making the charts: We had a new step called the goosestep we were marching to Well, it's sorta kinda like a German boogaloo; I was getting what I wanted but it wasn't enough So I called the boys, I said "Boys, get tough!" And I surrounded myself with some unusual cats: There was skinny little Goebbels, and Göring, Mr. Fats Let's not forget old Himmler and Hess You'd better believe we made a hell of a mess Saying "Heil! Heil! Siegety Heil! We're gonna rip it on the people Teutonic-style!" [Chorus] To be or not to be Oh baby, can't you see We're gonna make it to the top You are our destiny This thing was meant to be Why don't we do it till we drop? Say, your boots ain't black and your shirt ain't brown Get back, Jack, you can't get down! [Bridge] Ba-da ba-ba ba-da-da ba-ba Ba-da ba-ba ba-da-da ba-ba Ba-da ba-ba ba-da-da da-ba-ba Ba-da ba-ba ba-da-da ba-ba Ba-da ba-ba ba-da-da ba-ba Ba ba-da-ba ba Do it Adolf, do it! [Verse 3] I drank wine from the Rhine with the finest ladies And we did it in the back of a black Mercedes I was on a roll, I couldn't lose Then came D-Day, depression and blues The Yanks and the Brits started raising Cain Those guys were the pits, throwing me insane; People all around me started swallowing pills Let's face it folks, we was going downhill Berlin was crumbling, we was under the gun Time to look out for number one So I grabbed a blonde and a case of beer Said "The Russians are coming, let's get outa here!" [Chorus] To be or not to be Oh honey, can't you see We had to take it to the top You sure made history And it felt so good to me Ooh scheiáe, please don't ever stop Auf Wiedersehen, good to see ya Got a one-way ticket to Argentina!
No more Nazi thrills for you! Authentic Jew @authenttorahjew · 6m Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro's comment quoted at the DOJ Religious Liberty Commission, on how Zionism harms Jews in America: "American Jews are increasingly treated as less fully American—our loyalty questioned, our belonging made conditional—because Zionist ideology falsely claims Israel is the nation-state of Jews everywhere and that every Jew is nationally tied to it. "This framing is anti-Semitic at its core: it strips us of our identity as Americans, recasts us as foreigners in our own country, and arms antisemites with accusations of divided loyalties and collective guilt for actions we neither chose nor control. "No other foreign country does this—no sovereign state claims to politically represent an entire worldwide group defined by religion or heritage and bind its members to its deeds—yet Jews alone bear this unique, unjust burden. That dangerous lie must be rejected openly and firmly. "The remedy is clear: civic education that teaches unconditional American belonging through citizenship alone—not ethnicity, heritage, or any fabricated foreign tie. We are Americans, full stop—and we reject any doctrine that treats us otherwise." Dr. Ben Carson responds: "You know, I've known a lot of Jewish people, worked with a lot of Jewish people, some of the finest people that I know sitting in the front row here, Dr. Henry Brim. 25 years. The chairman of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins is one of the kindest, fairest people I've ever worked with, and I wonder why do people really think that Jews are a separate entity in the United States of America? "Jews have been here since the very beginning. They, too, were interested in a place where they could practice their religion freely. You know, when George Washington's army was about out of cash, it was him, Solomon a Jew, a very rich Jew, who gave up virtually all of his money and encouraged other people to give, which saved the Union. I don't know that we would've ever become a country without the input of Jews. So that's something we need to remember. "We need to remember that during the Civil Rights movement, who was standing right there with the rest of us who were interested in freedom for everybody in our society? It was the Jews. "Many of them died for the cause of civil rights, and I just want to make that point, that they are not a separate entity from Americans. They're a very important part. And how do we get people to recognize that and not think of Jews as something separate?"
CO26023 | The Bondi Attack: ISIS-Inspired Antisemitic Terrorism in Australia Joshua Roose 09 February 2026 download pdf Listen to this article 8 min SYNOPSIS The December 2025 assault on a Jewish community gathering at Bondi Beach outside Sydney, Australia, was the deadliest terrorist attack in recent Australian history. It exposed legislative and security gaps, failures in threat assessment and protective security, and political inaction amid escalating antisemitism. It also serves a warning for Western counterterrorism and social cohesion policies. COMMENTARY On the evening of December 14, 2025, at around 6.45 pm, a father and son pair inspired by Islamic State (ISIS) ideology carried out a coordinated attack on a Jewish community Hanukkah gathering at Bondi Beach in Sydney. The event, attended by around 1,000 people, was held in open parkland with minimal cover. The attackers arrived by car, displayed an ISIS flag across the windscreen, and initiated the assault using simple but effective military tactics. After throwing four improvised explosive devices that failed to detonate, Sajid Akram advanced on the crowd armed with straight-pull shotguns, firing at close range. His son, Naveed Akram, provided cover from higher ground with a .308 straight-pull rifle, enabling sustained fire across the site. Several bystanders bravely attempted to intervene. Three were killed, and one was seriously wounded. A police officer at the scene returned fire and was seriously wounded. The attack was stopped about six minutes after it began when a plainclothes police officer, acting independently and armed only with a pistol, fatally shot Sajid Akram and wounded Naveed Akram. Fifteen people were killed; fourteen members of the Jewish community – including a Holocaust survivor, two rabbis and a 10-year-old-girl – along with a non-Jewish photographer. Failure in Threat Assessment and Intelligence The Bondi attack exposed the shortcomings of Australia’s firearms and protective security frameworks, which remain heavily shaped by a lone-actor threat model dating back to Port Arthur in 1996 where a gunman armed with two semi-automatic rifles killed 35 men, women, and children at a tourist site in the state of Tasmania. This was the deadliest mass shooting in Australian history. Acting in tandem, the Bondi attackers exploited legal grey zones by using high powered straight-pull shotguns designed to circumvent bans on pump-action weapons. They achieved sustained close range, improvised micro-combined arms rifle and shotgun fire with these legally obtained weapons to maximise casualties. Irrespective of the failure of the improvised explosive devices, the attack demonstrated how legislative intent can be circumvented through tactical adaptation. Equally alarming was the ease of preparation. Despite Naveed Akram’s documented associations with extremist Salafi preacher Wissam Haddad and the Street Dawah network, the pair retained lawful access to firearms through Sajid Akram’s licensing (from 2023), travelled to Mindanao in the Philippines in October 2025 in an apparent attempt to establish contact with Islamic State, rehearsed tactical shooting techniques in rural New South Wales, and conducted hostile reconnaissance of the Hanukkah celebration site in Bondi Beach days before the attack. When the assault began, the attackers were significantly better armed than local police, who only had pistols. These failures intersected with shortcomings in threat assessment. The Hanukkah gathering was publicly advertised, and its intersection with Bondi Beach – a renowned landmark – gave the event particular symbolic significance. Although the Hanukkah celebrations were held in an exposed environment, it seems to have been security-assessed using a generic crowded-places framework rather than one tailored to a markedly heightened threat environment. This is despite reports that the Jewish Community Security Group (CSG) had identified a heightened risk during Hanukkah. In the preceding months, pro-Palestinian protests had targeted Bondi and surrounding suburbs with significant Jewish populations, sometimes involving aggressive behaviour. Across Australia, antisemitic incidents had escalated sharply, including graffiti, harassment of Jews, and designated terrorist activity linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, culminating in the expulsion of the Iranian embassy. Despite this context, access to the Bondi Hanukkah gathering appears to have been unrestricted. Reports indicate that three police personnel were present at or near the event, but this did not deter the attackers, who engaged police, wounding two. The attack also raises broader questions about intelligence sharing and coordination. Previous events, including the Dural caravan incident, had already highlighted gaps and tensions in how threat information is synthesised across Australian federal and state agencies. In this case, the failure to assess familial, ideological, and logistical risk factors holistically appears to have obscured the danger posed by lawful firearm access within an extremist-related network. Political Context and Inaction Bondi took place against a backdrop of sustained political equivocation amid the rising tide of antisemitism. Following the protest at the Sydney Opera House on October 9, 2024, where offensive chants targeting Jews were reported, the official response was marked by dispute and delay, resulting in an inquiry that produced little accountability. Over the past two years, antisemitic rhetoric has increasingly been reframed as legitimate political expression through the language of anti-Zionism. That shift matters. The attackers themselves used the term “Zionists” in their video recorded before the attack, illustrating how the toleration of specific political language can distort threat assessment and underplay the potential of extremism and violence. These developments have unfolded within a context of electoral calculation, as the government seeks wider community support in critical constituencies, and demonstrates a more inclusive political posture. Seemingly, this has failed to moderate the extremist sentiment and may have emboldened it. Where to from Here After an initial delay and a raft of new laws targeting hate and gun violence, the Australian government has announced a “Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion” to report in November 2026, alongside a security review led by former ASIO Director-General Denis Richardson, with a preliminary report due in April 2026. These processes will matter only if they address the structural failures exposed by Bondi terror rather than focusing narrowly on operational errors. The central question is whether Australia is willing to recalibrate its threat models, protective security frameworks, and political thresholds for action in an environment of sustained antisemitic and jihadist mobilisation. The Bondi attack must be understood as a critical warning for Western democracies facing similar challenges. About the Author Dr Joshua Roose is an Associate Professor at The Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow at RSIS’ International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) from 12-23 January 2026.
David A. Clarke, Jr. @SheriffClarke · Feb 8, 2018 PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN A CHAMPION FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM “Faith breathes life and hope into our world. We must diligently guard, preserve, and cherish this unalienable right.”– President Donald J. Trump Refreshing to hear POTUS talk about faith after 8 years of secularist Obama.
When the White House Religious Liberty Commission gathered in Washington on Monday for the body’s first public hearing focused on antisemitism, attendees expected an informative if subdued meeting, meant to gather testimony from Jewish Americans who have faced antisemitism. The commission’s members are tasked with drafting a report with recommendations for President Donald Trump about how to promote religious liberty.
The rest of the Monday hearing proceeded as planned: bureaucratic, genial, straightforward. The commission’s membership is mostly Christian, and much of the discussion of antisemitism presented it as a problem for those who believe in Judeo-Christian values, and an issue for Jews and Christians to combat together — with an understanding that the government should be in the business of supporting Americans’ freedom of religion. The event took place at the Museum of the Bible, a private institution established by the evangelical founder of Hobby Lobby. “I want to thank everyone who is part of this fight,” Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner said at the start of the event. “It’s a battle that President Trump will continue to wage for Jewish Americans, for Christians, and for all Americans of all faiths whose First Amendment freedoms are under attack. I know it’s fitting that we’re here at the Museum of the Bible. The word of God is powerful, and it’s a powerful reminder of the importance of the First Amendment.”
the arrow of time can emerge naturally from physical interactions that record information and cannot be undone. Time, then, is not a mysterious background parameter standing apart from physics. It is something the universe generates internally through its own dynamics. It is not ultimately a fundamental part of reality, but emerges from more basic constituents such as information.
Dear Mark, I’m proud to share highlights of American Jewish Committee’s impact in 2025. Amid ongoing global challenges, AJC continued to lead as the global advocacy organization for the Jewish people—making important strides to ensure that Jews and Israel are safe and thriving. Through our 40 offices across six continents, AJC empowered leaders in government, education, partner communities, and the private sector to act as allies and take action to counter antisemitism and support Israel. Below are just some of the ways AJC has leveraged our trusted partnerships with leaders to drive impact. None of this would be possible without your commitment and support. Together, we are shaping a better future for Israel and the Jewish people. We look forward to all we will accomplish together in 2026. Am Yisrael Chai. Ted Deutch AJC Chief Executive Officer Edward and Sandra Meyer Office of the CEO
Fight on the front line to save humanity. GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED Kesher Families helps Orthodox parents with ‘Godly mission’ of embracing their LGBTQ+ children The organization was launched by the dean emeritus of Yeshiva University's rabbinic program, whose son came out as gay at 15, in light of numerous calls for help from families Noam Galai/Getty Images A person wears a Pride-themed yarmulke in the West Village in New York City on June 26, 2020. By Jay Deitcher February 9, 2026 Share Facebook Twitter Email Print Friendly, PDF & Email Add EJP on Google When their then 15-year-old son came out as gay 15 years ago, Rebbetzin Adeena and Rabbi Menachem Penner didn’t have anyone to turn to. At the time, Menachem was dean of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University, the face of one of American Orthodoxy’s flagship institutions. He knew no organization to reach out to and no rabbis he felt would understand. So for five years, the couple kept it to themselves, sending their son, Gedalia, to conversion therapy. Today, the couple sees conversion therapy as unproductive and potentially harmful — to the individual and the Jewish community — something that stole five years from them that they could have used bonding with their son. It’s been linked to depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal thoughts, but at the time, it was the norm in the Orthodox world, and their son agreed to participate in it, yearning for a traditional life that he too saw as the goal. But as Gedalia turned 20, as a student at YU, he began embracing his identity, experimenting with his dress. He would show up in his father’s office with long hair and a tank top, and it became something they couldn’t hide – it was also something his father didn’t want him to feel like he had to hide. Desperate to support their son as he shaped his identity, Adeena and Menachem finally found someone to talk to, another Orthodox rabbi who understood that their son wasn’t trying to upset them or rebel against Judaism — this was who he was, and as hard as the situation was to navigate for them, coming out was that much more difficult for him. “Thank God, Gedalia was hanging on for all of this because it was a little bit rocky at certain points,” Adeena admitted to eJewishPhilanthropy. “We figured it out together, and thank God, we saved our relationship.” Wanting to help other families save their relationships, too, the couple founded Kesher Families in 2022, an organization that supports the parents of LGBTQ+ children, so they can be there for their kids, realizing what a gift it is that their children chose to share this part of their life with them. After four years, they are pushing the organization to become more public-facing, bringing the message to a larger audience that loving your children for who they are is one of the biggest mitzvot. This is occurring at a time when many in the Orthodox world are becoming more understanding of sexual orientation. “God understood that this was going to be your family, and this isn’t an accident,” Menachem said. Parenting is a “Godly mission… Probably our most important mission.” His role as a father was even more important than his job at RIETS, he said. Others could be dean, but no one else could be Gedalia’s dad. Although parenting a queer child in the Orthodox community can be challenging, it was the mission the Penners were chosen to do, he said, and they are not alone. Kesher was started because of demand. People noticed the way the Penners supported Gedalia and turned to them, yearning to learn how they too could embrace their kids. After Gedalia and Menachem appeared on the “18Forty Podcast” in 2021, speaking about their experience, calls flooded into the Penners, their table often circled with other families navigating territory they never imagined they would travel, but determined to go the journey together. “We just couldn’t handle the volume of people that were coming forward texting us and calling us,” Menachem said. “This wasn’t something that, as two individuals, we could do. We needed to bring on mental health professionals and [other Jewish leaders who were experts on the subject of supporting LGBT+ loved ones.]” Today, Kesher has two full-time employees, including Adeena and a director of operations, and six part-time therapists. Menachem, who is the executive vice president of the Rabbinical Council of America, now dean emeritus of RIETS, still works at Kesher for free. “Part-time,” he said, pausing before adding, “I wish it were part-time.” Kesher offers individual sessions, in-person or virtual, in English, Hebrew and Yiddish, group therapy, community programs and scholar-in-residence events for lay leaders, rabbis, rebbetzins, professionals and families, and the group holds a yearly parent Shabbaton. “We’re still reaching only a fraction of the people that are out there,” Menachem said. One of the rabbis who works part-time at Kesher is the first rabbi the Penners reached out to, Chaim Rapoport, whose book Judaism and Homosexuality: An Authentic Orthodox View opened the door to the community being more accepting of their queer members. The other Kesher rabbi is Yakov Horowitz, whose LGBTQ+ advocacy is his “third rodeo.” A former eighth-grade teacher in Borough Park, Brooklyn, and then founding dean of Yeshiva Darchei Noam in the upstate New York Haredi town of Monsey, Horowitz made a name for himself supporting at-risk youth who were “abandoning religion and or abandoning life,” he told eJP, and taking aim at sexual predators in the Orthodox community. “I stay grounded and really try to keep my eyes and ears open,” Horowitz said. “I notice situations, talk about them to raise public awareness, and then I try to solve them, like what can we do about it?” Eight years ago, Horowitz published a video on Facebook about the importance of supporting LGBTQ+ youth. It got 15,000 views overnight, and his phone exploded with parents and kids yearning for help. He recognizes that he has a “public voice, which I always felt a tremendous responsibility to use wisely to try and make positive change.” This empathetic yet powerful voice is one of the reasons he was brought on board at Kesher, to bring more awareness to their work. “I am often a little provocative, but mostly to do it in a way that generates positive change, rather than just venting and getting people more frustrated.” The first thing parents should say if a child comes out to them is, “I’m so glad that you were comfortable talking to me or us,” Horowitz said. Parents don’t have to react right away, but they should say that “We love you. We will always love you. We’ll figure this out together. There’s a lot we don’t know right now. We need to investigate things, collect information and find resources. But we’re here with you.” While Kesher supports families, they don’t get involved in communal issues, Horowitz said. “Ultimately, synagogues, institutions, schools, whatever, they have autonomy. They’re making their own decisions. When people ask me questions, I’ll discuss it with them, but we all have a limited amount of time, and focus is very important, so I stick to the family unit, helping parents help their children as best they can.” Some congregations are more accepting of LGBTQ+ individuals and their families than others, Horowitz said. “Not every synagogue is going to be right for every family.” There has always been an understanding that not all Jews follow every single law, he said. Following Jewish laws is not all or nothing. “That’s just been a baked-in understanding.” If an Orthodox Jew doesn’t keep Shabbat privately, no one will know, but the LGBTQ+ discussion is more public facing and charged with emotion. But there is a shift happening within the Orthodox community, he said, even in the most right-wing circles, and the younger generation, rabbis included, are much more aware of sexual identity. “That’s going to be a big shift. It is already.” When 75 Orthodox rabbis — most of whom identify with the more progressive wing of Modern Orthodoxy — signed a “Prohibition Against Advising People to Attempt Conversion Therapy,” Adeena was heartened to hear others speaking out. Kesher employees didn’t sign the document because they simply did not know about it. “Kesher Families neither refers families to reparative therapy nor encourages rabbis to do so,” she said. “Where we would sign a public statement sponsored by a different group would depend on many factors besides our view of reparative therapy itself.” Many Jews don’t realize that not only is it permitted to maintain a relationship with their LGBTQ+ child, but “it’s a mitzvah,” Menachem said. “It’s what God expects of them. He doesn’t expect them to distance themselves from their children.” While some of Kesher’s programming carries costs, such as its Shabbaton — with plenty of scholarships available — its individual and group services are free, and this is by design. “The concern is that people are so hesitant to come forward that we don’t want to add another barrier,” Menachem said. “Even if we charged a small amount, it would just be another reason to push off the call [or] to not call.” Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies helped launch Kesher, and today the nonprofit also receives funding from Micah Philanthropies, UJA-Federation of New York and the Aviv Foundation. Its annual budget is $700,000. “We know that LGBTQ individuals and their families face significant headwinds in most Orthodox spaces, and we at the Aviv Foundation believe that Kesher Families and leaders like Rabbi and Mrs. Penner provide critical connection points and compassion within communities and families,” Adam Simon, CEO of the Aviv Foundation, told eJP. Ann and Jeremy Pava, the president and chairman of Micah Philanthropies, respectively, told eJP that they “chose to support Kesher Families because we’ve seen firsthand how transformative it can be when families are given the tools and community they need to thrive. Kesher Families is creating lasting impact, and we’re proud to help fuel that work.” Kesher also has had a lot of success with crowdfunding. “People in the Orthodox world want families to stay together and want this to work,” Menachem said. “They’re just not exactly sure how to make it work.” There are plenty of organizations that work with Orthodox LBTQ+ individuals, such as Footsteps and JQY, but “In order to really gain the confidence of one of the two sides, you have to sort of be on one side of the table, even if your goal is to keep [families] together,” Menachem said. “I don’t think if we were servicing the LGBTQ individuals and their parents, that we’d have the confidence of the parents.” Each organization plays an important role. Being outspoken about how he has navigated parenting, especially when it became difficult, makes him a better rabbi, Menachem said. Even though there have been plenty of people who have told him and his family not to speak about LGBTQ+ issues, many more have connected with them because of it. “People are looking for leaders and role models [who] are real people and struggling with real things in their own families and in their own lives.” The Penners never recommend a family break off connection to one another, but there are times things don’t work out. “We don’t need to recommend it,” Menachem said. “Unfortunately, in those cases, there are cases where families just cannot be together. It’s often not the parents. It’s usually a sibling or something that just can’t make it work.” They are grateful to have a flourishing relationship with all their kids, including Gedalia. When the family was wrestling with Gedalia coming out of the closet, his mother once asked him why he was rebelling. “Mommy, I want all the same things you and abba have,” Gedalia said, using the Hebrew word for father. “I want a family. I want a Shabbos table. I want love. I can’t have that with a woman. I’m just not attracted to women.” Realizing that fact was a turning point in their relationship. Today, Gedalia is the only Penner child who went into the family business, so to speak. He’s a former member of Jewish a cappella groups, including the Y-Studs and The Maccabeats, is married and works as a cantor serving in the Conservative TCS-Westport synagogue in Connecticut. Every week, new families reach out to Kesher for intakes, especially after recent appearances by Menachem and Horowitz on the “Orthodox Conundrum” podcast. The Penners are thinking of hiring a third full-time staff member. “I can’t see a scenario where families are calling and we’re not able to service them,” Menachem said. “There’s too much on the line.”
Its flashbacks: After a landslide election victory in 2024, President Donald J. Trump is returning to the White House to build upon his previous successes and use his mandate to reject the extremist policies of the radical left while providing tangible quality of life improvements for the American people. This includes putting a stop to endless wars, defending our nation’s borders, and unleashing the potential of the American economy, affording ALL Americans the opportunity to pursue THEIR version of the American dream. In his first administration, President Trump passed record-setting tax cuts and regulation cuts, achieved energy independence, replaced NAFTA with the United-States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, invested $2 trillion to completely rebuild the Military, launched the Space Force, obliterated the ISIS Caliphate, achieved a major breakthrough for peace in the Middle East, passed the most significant Veterans Affairs reforms in half a century, confirmed over 250 federal judges, including 3 Supreme Court Justices, signed bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform, lowered drug prices, protected Medicare and Social Security, and secured our nation’s borders in his first four years in office. This was only the beginning. Donald J. Trump defines the American success story. Throughout his life he has continually set the standards of business and entrepreneurial excellence, especially in real estate, sports, and entertainment. President Trump built on his success in private life when he entered into politics and public service. He remarkably won the Presidency in his first ever run for any political office. He won a second time despite several assassination attempts and the unprecedented weaponization of law fare against him. Time after time President Trump has defied the odds because he fundamentally believes in the exceptionalism of the American spirit and wants to see our great country succeed. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance, President Trump followed in his father’s footsteps into the world of real estate development, making his mark in New York City. There, the Trump name soon became synonymous with the most prestigious of addresses in Manhattan and, subsequently, throughout the world. President Trump is also an accomplished author. He has written more than fourteen bestsellers. His first book, The Art of the Deal, is considered a business classic. President Trump has five children, Barron, Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric, and Tiffany, as well as 11 grandchildren.
Antisemitism and engagement Looking at the state of antisemitism today, Daroff sees “early indications” of a gradual cooling of the explosion in anti-Jewish hostility over the last two years. While it is too early to guess how things will progress over the coming months, there are signs of progress, especially on the fierce ideological battlefields of college campuses. “Things like anti-Israel encampments and Jewish students being harassed are not happening anymore,” Daroff said. “Campuses are much calmer now than they were previously.” That marks a sharp contrast with the spring of 2024, when weeks-long encampments, building occupations and class disruptions were common at major universities. Tents and signs fill Harvard Yard by the John Harvard statue in the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 5, 2024. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP) Much of that, he said, is because the Trump administration took strong steps to enforce Title VI protections against discrimination, including threatening to withdraw federal funding, to force university administrators to clamp down on hate activities on campus. Advertisement “Those interventions raised the stakes for institutions and literally changed the atmosphere for Jewish students and faculty overnight,” he said. Meanwhile, the phenomenon of surging Jewish engagement among non-affiliated Jews since October 7 shows no signs of abating, Daroff said. Organizations continue to report rising synagogue and JCC attendance, increased involvement in Jewish and pro-Israel advocacy, and public displays of Jewish identity such as wearing yarmulkes and Magen David necklaces. Former hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel light Hanukkah candles with William Daroff and participants at the Israel Foreign Ministry’s J50 Conference in December 2025 (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO) “We haven’t seen indications that the surge is reversing,” Daroff said. “As a community, we have been circling our wagons because we have seen that, at the end of the day, the people we can count on the most are our Jewish friends and neighbors. I think that’s been an important part of the surge, and we need to find ways to ensure that Jewish engagement continues.” “My hope at this point,” Daroff said, “is that with the conflict here receding, the Jewish community can press reset and focus on what is important.”
Sabrina Soffer @sabrinasoff · 7h The disturbing reality at @CarnegieMellon : university leadership enabling antisemitism under Qatari influence. CMU contracts require compliance with Qatari “cultural, religious, and social customs”— which includes prohibitions on the public practice of Judaism. University Show more Protect Our Campus @Protect_Campus · Feb 3 🔦 @Columbia University is no longer dealing with allegations or speculation. Its own data shows systemic failure, selective enforcement, and resistance to oversight. When an institution documents the problem and still refuses to act, accountability moves from the margins straight to the administration. 0:49 / 0:58 Protect Our Campus @Protect_Campus · 32m 🔦 @RutgersU tenured professor Todd Wolfson has used his academic authority and public platforms to promote radical political ideology, including repeated Nazi and Holocaust comparisons and the normalization of extremist rhetoric. These statements are not confined to private opinion. They are public, ongoing, and come from a professor whose role is to teach history, media, and political power with accuracy and responsibility. Holocaust inversion and Nazi analogies are not neutral political critique. When used by a professor, they distort historical reality, trivialize genocide, and shape how students understand democracy, governance, and moral accountability. Faculty are free to criticize policy, but academic freedom does not excuse abusing historical atrocities or legitimizing radical ideology through scholarly language. Universities hold professors to a higher standard because their words carry institutional weight. Rutgers should not ignore conduct that undermines historical truth and responsible education.
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