10/ If we want stronger coalitions, inside the Jewish community and across communities, we need to believe people when they tell us they’re scared. Not after something happens. Before. That’s how trust actually gets built. That’s how we stay whole.

9/ The sages teach: “Words from the heart enter the heart.” Real dialogue starts with curiosity, not judgment. The first response to fear should never be “calm down.” It should be: “Tell me what this brought up for you.” That goes for all of us.

8/ A lot of people, good people, people working for Jewish safety, said the fears around Mamdani’s election were overblown. That Jews were overreacting. Then this happened. And now those same groups are condemning it. I’m glad they did. But maybe we should ask ourselves: what changed?

7/ And outside, people screamed “we need to make them scared.” If you can’t condemn that without a “but,” then the problem isn’t the event.

6/ Whatever your views on Israeli policy, and there’s plenty to debate, here’s what happened that night: Jews gathered to ask questions about moving to Israel. Not where in Israel. Just: is this right for my family?

5/ For generations, Jews weren’t allowed to make that choice—not during the Holocaust, not under Soviet rule. And now a New York leader is suggesting a synagogue shouldn’t even host a conversation about it?

4/ The mayor-elect’s response? He said the synagogue shouldn’t host events that “violate international law.” He was talking about an organization helping Jews consider moving to Israel.

3/ Someone screamed “we need to make them scared” at Jews walking in. When Jews say this felt threatening? We’re not being dramatic. We remember what comes next.

2/ The protest outside Park East Synagogue wasn’t abstract. People chanted “globalize the intifada” & “death to the IDF” outside a Jewish house of worship.

10/ The people who built Emek Sholom refused to disappear. Refused to let the broken glass be forgotten. That was their defiance.

86 years after Kristallnacht, we’re still here lighting candles and asking to be seen.

Some of us are still sweeping up the shards.

9/ Solidarity either means something or it doesn’t.

So my ask is simple: Call out antisemitism when you see it, even from your own side. Believe Jews when we say we’re scared. Understand that remembering isn’t dwelling — it’s how we survive.

8/ My whole life, I’ve believed this: when someone says they’re afraid, you listen. You don’t explain their fear away. You don’t tell them they’re wrong about their own experience.

That shouldn’t be conditional based on whether it’s politically convenient.

7/Jews are 0.2% of world. Synagogues still need armed security. Jewish students get harassed on campuses — from the left & right. Antisemitic incidents are spiking everywhere.

But when we say we’re scared? People tell us we’re being dramatic. Or weaponizing trauma. Or 2 white 2 count as vulnerable.

6/ Look, I know most of you genuinely care about protecting vulnerable communities. That’s not performative — it’s real, it’s who you are.

So I’m just asking you to keep that same energy here.

5/ Memory is the only thing standing between “never again” and “here we go again.”

Antisemitism didn’t disappear in 1945. It got quieter for a bit. Now it’s loud again, and people are mad that we’re pointing it out.

4/ Here’s what gets me: these survivors built this memorial after they’d already escaped. They were safe. They’d started over, raised kids, became our neighbors.

But they still needed to carve those names in stone. Because they understood something most of us don’t want to believe.

3/ The stone says “O LORD NOT HAVE BEEN IN VAIN” with 459 names carved underneath. Each one representing thousands more.

They weren’t statistics. They had favorite songs. Plans for Tuesday. People they loved who were waiting for them to come home.

2/ Tal, JCFR’s community shlicha, spoke. And Alex Perelman got up and told us about his grandfather Mendel — what he survived, what he carried for the rest of his life. Trauma that doesn’t heal, just gets carried forward.

That’s what intergenerational memory looks like in real time.