The greatest joy in my life was seeing my daughter being born. Months later, October 7th changed the world, and completely changed mine. As news of the brutal massacre spread, my thoughts immediately turned to my daughter, who was then only 4 months old. She could have been one of the babies that was burned alive or held hostage.

Education is the foundation to the changes that are needed for the Jewish People to be safe and treated equally. The normalization of antizionism [spelling is intentional] as not only an acceptable, but laudable, view point, and not the racist, hateful ideology that it is, is the biggest problem facing Jews both domestically and worldwide. The October 7th genocide was the start of the 3rd intifada, which is rooted in, and caused by, antizionism.

My primary concern is if politicians are willing to help the cause of Jewish safety, security, liberty and equality. We have friends and enemies on both sides of the aisle, and I am happy to work with anyone who is a friend/ally.

While Israel may have won the physical war post 10/7 massacre, the Jewish people and Israel have been losing the media and social-media war. While a big part of the reason is due to numbers, i.e. us being 0.2% of the global population, 2% of the U.S. population, much of it is due to a generation of people propagandized on antizionism that now control news rooms and moderate social media algorithms. The digital war may be as important as the physical war, because as we are seeing, media outlets and social media algorithms pushing blood-libels and fabricated stories has lead to increased amounts of violence against Jews/Jewish institutions in ‘real’ life.