We, as the current Jews of Shushan Adar — are we Persian hostages…are we all not all one-year-old Kfir?
“Mi’sh’Nichnas “Adar” Marbim beSimcha ” — “When Adar begins, feel Joyous.”
In a time of Sadness, can there be joy?
In a time of darkness — can there be light?
There’s this . . .
טז לַיְּהוּדִים, הָיְתָה אוֹרָה וְשִׂמְחָה, וְשָׂשֹׂן, וִיקָר. |
Esther 8:16 The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honour. |
LaYehudim haitah orah ve-simchah ve-sasson ve-yakar
“The Jews had light and gladness, joy and honor”
From this week’s Haftara: Isaiah 66:22
כִּ֣י כַאֲשֶׁ֣ר הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם הַ֠חֲדָשִׁ֠ים וְהָאָ֨רֶץ הַחֲדָשָׁ֜ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲנִ֥י עֹשֶׂ֛ה עֹמְדִ֥ים לְפָנַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהֹוָ֑ה כֵּ֛ן יַעֲמֹ֥ד זַרְעֲכֶ֖ם וְשִׁמְכֶֽם׃
For as the new heaven and the new earth
That I will make
Shall endure by My will
—declares GOD —
So shall your seed and your name endure.
As The Jews of Shushan and Persia would soon enough lerarn: Am Yisrael Chai
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Behold the presence of Haman in every generation — here, just a mention of one or two of all these things, big and small.
Selected “shorts” of interest from around the United States: Chicago, NY, and Pennsylvania
- Chicago Jewish leaders are criticizing the city’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, for his handling of a recent city council cease-fire resolution, which passed after Johnson cast the deciding vote … (his name should be erased).
- The New York Times profiles (no firewall here – link)
- the Memorial Scrolls Trust, an organization that sends Torah scrolls that survived the Holocaust to Jewish communities around the world. The trust just marked its 60th anniversary… (may their message endure).
- Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) called for New York State to appoint an independent monitor for antisemitism on City University of New York campuses after one CUNY school was set to host an event on “Globalizing the Intifada.” Torres told Jewish Insider that the since-canceled event represented “an open invitation to violence against Jews across the globe,” adding, “The self-policing of CUNY will no longer suffice”…
- Dr. J. Larry Jameson, the interim president of the University of Pennsylvania, denounced recent cartoons created by a university lecturer that invoked the blood libel as “antisemitic” and “reprehensible”… (The Black Academic and Presidential candidate Cornell West (his personality along with his intellect, is ugly) was very enthusiastic about the artist and his art (link).
