Teens Combating Antisemitism Task Force

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Uniting Teens Against Antisemitism and Hate

Quotes from Interviews

“I made this investment in this community and I'm not walking away. I care and I know that people care about me. We will figure this out together.”

Rabbi Matt Cutler, Congregation Gates of Heaven

“Antisemitism is clearly a problem around the world. It’s not just in Europe or in the United States…I’m speaking from Taiwan and I have a lot of exposure to China, and it’s definitely a problem that exists in this part of the world as well.”

Ross Darrell Feingold, Former Chairman of the Taipei Jewish Center

“I am pleased to report that there is a great deal of serious concern for the Jewish community and a real effort from a number of people in the administration to think of ways that we can ensure that the Jewish community first and foremost is safe and secondly that that the university can do what it can to help students navigate the challenges both in terms of mental health and physical threats.”

Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, Princeton University Center for Jewish Life

“Encourage people to live more Jewishly. That way, when antisemitism is forced upon them, their response is to live more openly and be proud.”

Rabbi Elizabeth Hersh, Temple Emanuel, St. Louis

“We find ourselves in a particular moment in our history, and, like the others, it will pass. It will serve to help us understand that, in the diaspora, we must not have illusions about our friends.”

Rabbi Ariel di Porto, The Great Synagogue of Rome

“One can’t fight every fight. One has to decide where their time is best spent and what is reasonably, actually going to help advance the conversation for the truth…counter harmful speech with more speech and better speech.”

Rabbi Seth Linfield, Hillel at Dartmouth College

“The loudest voices get the most attention, the middle voices need to get heard, vast majority are not protesting”

Rabbi Naftali Brawer, Tufts University Jewish Chaplin and Hillel Executive Director

Hamas is “not only motivated by hatred of Israel or of Jews … they also hate America … We, as Jews, need to make the case that this is not just a danger to Jews. This is a danger to the United States itself, to its identity as a country, to what it understands itself to be.”

Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soleveichik, Congregation Shearith Israel

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