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WOWS 8: “Death to Death!” – Dearborn, Michigan

by Laura Kessler April 13, 2024

written by Laura Kessler

OPINION — Thane Rosenbaum addresses the disturbing death threats coming from Dearborn, Michigan in the latest episode of What Others Won’t Say.

With Senior Political & Cultural Analyst Thane Rosenbaum

Thane’s Monologue:

Well, I am afraid it has started: The Arab Street is soon coming to Main Street, unless we make it very clear that America is not trading its democracy for a caliphate.

In Michigan, this past week, pro-Hamas demonstrators chanted, “Death to America!” The congresswoman who represents that district refused to condemn her constituents. The Founding Fathers gave us the First Amendment so as to debate the issues of the day, not to issue death sentences.

In Jihadist Dearborn, I can’t imagine a Christmas Tree or a Hanukkah Menorah ths coming December not being burned down.

There’s seemingly only one people on Earth for whom a point of departure in viewpoint demands not civilized disagreement, but demands for death.

Europeans have endured these spectacles for over 20 years now, attacks on democratic norms, a religion not of liberty but compliance. America has been spared—until now. Israel’s latest war with Hamas has unleashed the entire Islamist playbook.

It has always puzzled me: When Islamists and pro-Hamas, anti-Israel anti-Semites gather in public, burning flags, scuffling with police, shouting down speakers or shutting down public gatherings, is there anything, and I mean anything, they won’t pump their fists and scream death to?

We’ve long heard “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” but there’s also been “Death to British novelists,” “Death to Dutch filmmakers,” “Death to Danish cartoonists!” “Death to French cartoonists!” (Islamists really despise cartoons), “Death to the Pope!” The Pope?

Where does it stop? “Death to Christianity!” “Death to Buddhism,” “Death to Passivism!” “Death to Hummus!”– if made by Israelis. (By the way, I do think that Arabs make better hummus than Jews, but let’s leave that for another day.)

No other people engage in these deafening public death chants. What if the people of Luxemburg shouted, “Death to France!” Or Americans chanting, “Death to Canada.” Even murderous countries don’t do this. The Chinese screaming, “Death to Hong Kong!?” North Koreans, “Death to South Korea!?”

The bitter irony is that these mobs of shrieking Muslims, faces red with hatred, are purportedly gathered to protest a “genocide” in Gaza. In case you’re still fuzzy on these facts, Israel is at war with Hamas after 1,200 of its citizens were murdered, beheaded and gang-raped, and over 200 taken hostage. Many of those hostages, we are now discovering, are dead. Israel’s retaliation has been, legally and morally, a just war.

Genocide, legally and morally, is not simply people dying in war. Jews didn’t die in World War II. They were murdered in the Holocaust.

The Palestinian population has more than doubled since the “Occupation,” which means they are multiplying, not subtracting. Civilians, especially the children, are collateral damage, and not victims of a genocide.

Ironically, the same people chanting, “Stop Genocide!” are calling for the death of Jews and Americans. They don’t have a problem with death. They glorify death and zealously believe they are rewarded by martyrdom.

Is Islam a religion, or a death cult? It’s not an Islamophobic question, it’s an important one that decent, civilized people should ask: especially if you are Muslim. So much blood is joyously being spilled. You’re telling me this is what Allah wishes for your people?

Thane Rosenbaum, for the Jewish TV Channel

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Becoming Janet: Janet Singer Applefield on Talking Point

by Laura Kessler March 18, 2024

written by Laura Kessler

Becoming Janet: Holocaust Lessons for a Post 10/7 World

Reinventing Ourselves after Trauma

Janet Singer Applefield discusses her upcoming Holocaust Memoir with Laura Kessler. As a child survivor, she discusses her journey of resilience through several names and identities before being reunited with her father and beginning a new life. One of the lessons we can learn from Janet and other Holocaust survivors is how to be resilient after trauma and successfully transform our identities for a new chapter of Jewish survival and healing after the unimaginable loss of 10/7.

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Janet Singer Applefield is a child survivor of the Holocaust, author, and notable speaker. She earned her Master of Social Work at Boston University and practiced as a clinical social worker in the court system with perpetrators of hate crimes in the Greater Boston area for 30+ years. Janet speaks openly about her experiences with thousands of people each year through regular speaking engagements. In 2021, she was invited to tell her story before the Massachusetts State Legislature, on the occasion of the passage Bill H.692, an act mandating statewide genocide education in all middle and secondary schools. Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust will be released on May 7, 2024 and available at bookstores and online retailers.

When Janet first arrived in the U.S. in 1947, her father insisted that she relay to him everything she could remember since they were separated in August of 1942, so that he could capture it in writing. During his life, they never spoke about their collective torture. She discovered the seven hand script pages in 1984 in a box of yellowed papers, translated the document, and it became a blueprint for her self-discovery. Janet learned of those who saved her during the war and she was able to meet her rescuers in person that same year. They are now recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” at Yad Vashem in Israel.

At 88 years old, Janet continues to be an avid reader and international traveler. She has three children and five grandchildren and lives south of Boston, MA.

Study Guide Questions for Teachers:

Did Janet’s story affect you? Describe how.
What does Janet mean when she says that her Aryan features probably saved her life?
The Nazis disseminated messages of hatred toward Jews. What were some of the messages they used to fuel antisemitism?
Why might someone hate someone else merely because they are different from themselves?
What does the term “legacy” mean to you?
Write a letter to Gustawa. Tell her if there are any ways in which you identify with her.
Gustawa, her father, and other Jews who returned to Nowy Targ at the end of the war met with danger even though the war was over. How do you explain this?
How was Gustawa changed by her experiences during and after the war? How have trauma and tragic loss influenced Janet’s identity? How have your own circumstances shaped your character?
Why do you think Gustawa was asked to take a new name when she arrived to register for elementary school?
What does it mean to be resilient? Describe two examples of resilience from Janet’s story, and share a time when you had to recover quickly from challenges in your own life.
Think about the freedoms and security you enjoy. How would you feel if they were taken away from you?
In Janet’s story, why do you think some people chose to look away from injustice while others chose to stand up and make a difference even though it meant risking their own lives? What factors influenced their choices?
Janet wrote that the choices we make can have a ripple effect. What is one thing you can do to make a positive difference?

Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust

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WOWS 7: And the Oscar goes to…

by Laura Kessler March 17, 2024

written by Laura Kessler

Thane Rosenbaum addresses the shocking Jonathan Glazer scandal at the Oscars in the latest episode of What Others Won’t Say.

With Senior Political & Cultural Analyst Thane Rosenbaum

Thane’s Monologue:

And the Oscar for Jewish self-hatred goes to … more about that later.

Long before anyone had ever seen Holocaust movies like “Schindler’s List,” “The Pianist,” and “Sophie’s Choice,” an iconic American funnyman, director, writer and sight-gag specialist, Jerry Lewis, back in 1972, directed the film, “The Day the Clown Cried.”

Don’t remember seeing it? Well, that’s because it was never released, and to this day, the whereabouts of the original print remains a mystery. The film was instantly deemed unwatchable.

It was about a washed-up circus clown, interned in Auschwitz, who leads the children to the gas chambers. 1972 was a mere 27 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Everything about the film violated the moral and aesthetic principles of art. It dared to reimagine the death camps, factories of mass murder, where the systematic extermination, and then cremation, of two out of every three Jews of Europe was largely achieved.

A clown misleading the children to their deaths? Even Lewis never wanted anyone to see the movie. He was mortified by it. The producers blamed him, but they, too, understood that audiences were not ready for such a grotesque cinematic spectacle.

Less than a week ago, a Holocaust film received an Oscar for Best Foreign Language film. It depicted life directly outside of Aushwitz—the blithely desensitized, normalized life of the camp’s commandant. How did this high-ranking Nazi and his family manage to live so closely to the barbaric, so obtuse to the atrocious, so casually unaffected by what was taking place on the other side of their garden?

The idea of the film is not really all that original. “Sophie’s Choice” covered the same blood-soaked ground and ashen skies.

But what was unexpected on Oscar night was the acceptance speech of the film’s director. Having made a film that explored the extreme consequences of moral failure, he created his own, informing a global audience: “We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”

Yeah, he was referring to Israel and its war in Gaza. He was comparing Israel’s war of self-defense to the Nazi genocide of Jews; and Hamas’ citizen army of human shields to six million Jewish victims. He wanted the world to know that he wasn’t at all like the Jews in Israel who kill Palestinians. He was morally superior to them, and wanted the Hollywood elite to know that he can and should be invited to glamorous parties because he had just renounced his Jewishness.

The Jews of Europe didn’t launch rockets at Germany for 20 years. Jews never beheaded German babies or burned them alive. They didn’t gang rape and mutilate German teenage girls. They weren’t terrorists. They were truly innocent civilians.

Ironically, this film director made a movie about monsters, and then somehow misidentified what modern monsters look like. It was his people who had hijacked the Holocaust for their own murderous ends.

He could have told the audience: “It’s happening again. And we promised Never Again. To my people. Return the hostages!”

Instead, the director exposed himself as a clown.

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Jewish Trauma & Mental Health Series, Part 3: Supporting Our Students After 10/7

by Laura Kessler February 29, 2024

written by Laura Kessler

Jewish Trauma & Mental Health, Part 3:

Dr. Jeff Lichtman and Laura Kessler Discuss How to Counter the Relentless Assault on Jewish Student Identity

In Part III of our Jewish Trauma & Mental Health series, Dr. Jeff Lichtman discusses the mental health of Jewish students on campus, the relentless assault on their Jewish identity, and how we can prevent being overwhelmed from constant negativity by focusing on a few things we can control, instead of all the things we cannot.

We discuss the specific ways students have been affected by increased global antisemitism after 10/7 and how the community can work together to support them.

Please share this with the students and young adults in your life, and the people who love them.

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Dr. Jeff Lichtman is the Director of Jewish Education/Special Education at Touro’s Graduate School of Education. He also serves as Director of Student Mental Health Services for Touro University. Jeff is a member of the NJ dept of Education Non-Public School Advisory Commission, Past President and Strategic Planning Committee of Kushner Hebrew Academy.

A psychologist with many years of experience in a variety of settings, Jeff has Masters’ degrees in school psychology and education from St. John’s University and NYU. He received his Undergraduate and Rabbinical training from Yeshiva University, where he completed his doctorate as well. His areas of expertise include counseling, social skills development, teacher training, & leadership development.

Dr. Lichtman has been a classroom teacher, school psychologist, and principal. He founded the Rambam Yeshiva Day School in Baltimore and the Ivdu Special Needs Yeshiva in New York. As Director Emeritus of Yachad (The National Jewish Council for Disabilities), Jeff is well-known for his more than 30 years of visionary leadership, where he grew Yachad into a world-wide force for Inclusion and innovative programs serving children and adults with disabilities.

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February 29, 2024 0 comments

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Mahsa Amini Human Rights and Security Accountability Act (MAHSA Act)

by Laura Kessler February 28, 2024

written by Laura Kessler

This week’s guest on BIPACT News at JewishTVChannel.com is @HopeIranian, an Iranian American human rights activist who was moved into action by the September 2022 murder of 22 year old Mahsa Amini by the Iranian morality police. Since the suppressed revolt of masses of Generation Z Iranians in the wake of Amini’s death, Hope and her fellow activists have achieved a critical mass of thousands.

Their hope is for a free, secular, democratic Iran, where people of all faiths, identities, ethnicities, and beliefs can live in peace and harmony with one another and their neighboring countries. Hope and her Mahsa Army believe that peace in the Middle East is a prerequisite for peace throughout the world, and internal peace, derived from the freedom to live as one chooses, is a prerequisite for all else.

To that end, Hope and the Mahsa Army have been advocating in the halls of Congress, for the Mahsa Amini Human Rights and Security Accountability Act (MAHSA Act) (H.R.589/ S.2626), a bill to impose sanctions on the Supreme Leader and President of Iran and their affiliated offices for human rights abuses and terrorism.

For more information on the Mahsa Act, followers can visit https://www.congress.gov/ to read more about S.2626. Hope is on X.com and Instagram as @HopeIranian. The petition to ask Congress to act is available by scanning this QR code:

Learn more about Hope Iranian at the QR code above, and catch more of Jessica Emami on BIPACT News.

ACTION ALERT:

Urge Senator Cardin to Markup the MAHSA Act and Other Iran-Related Bills

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Jewish Trauma & Mental Health Series, Part 2: How Jewish Psychologists Are Working Within the APA to Fight Antisemitism

by Laura Kessler February 16, 2024

written by Laura Kessler

Jewish Trauma & Mental Health, Part 2:

How the Association of Jewish Psychologists is Working With the APA to Fight Antisemitism

In Part II of our Jewish Trauma & Mental Health series, Laura sits down with Dr. Beth Rom-Rymer, president of the Association of Jewish Psychologists (AJP) to discuss antisemitism within the American Psychological Association (APA) and how AJP is working within APA to forge a stronger understanding of antisemitism and the needs of the Jewish community and its trauma victims.

Following the attacks of 10/7, the APA issued a disappointing statement which did not acknowledge the full reality of Jewish trauma. Members of the AJP wrote a strong rebuttal to the APA, and have subsequently strengthened the dialogue within APA in many positive ways.

This comprehensive discussion covers all bases from the past history of the APA during the Holocaust and eugenics, to the present manifestations of “new antisemitism” as Israel-phobia, with a hopeful outlook for the future and the contributions of AJP leaders within the APA.

Numerous resources are linked explaining how you can get involved with AJP, free support groups, webinars and much more.

The complete rebuttal from the AJP to the APA after 10/7 can also be found below.

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Dr. Beth Rom-Rymer has been a pioneer throughout her life. She was in the first class of women undergraduates at Princeton University (Class of ’73); created the first Victim-Witness Assistance Unit, Florida’s 2nd District State Attorney’s Office; and co-founded/became the first Board President of Refuge House, a shelter for domestic violence survivors, Tallahassee, Florida, 1977-1979.

Dr. Rom-Rymer helped to create the field of forensic geriatrics in 2000; taught at several Universities, in the Departments of Psychiatry, including The University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Dr. Rom-Rymer led the 2014 successful Illinois legislative Movement for Psychologists’ Prescriptive Authority; continues to implement Prescriptive Authority legislation in Illinois; consults with State Psychological Associations, nationwide, and with international psychologist leaders, on legislative advocacy campaigns.

Dr. Rom Rymer is President of the Illinois Association of Prescribing Psychologists (IAPP) and the newly-formed Association of Jewish Psychologists (AJP). She has also had a long history of APA and SPTA governance, including President of Division 55 (Prescribing Psychology), Division 56 (Psychology of Trauma), and the Illinois Psychological Association. She has been President and Chair of the National Register for Health Psychologists; a member of the APA Board of Directors; and Chair of the APA Council Leadership Team.

Dr. Rom-Rymer has received numerous awards for her work, including: “Distinguished Illinois Psychologist”; from the Illinois Psychological Association (2012, 2014), “Outstanding Service to the Community”; from the Princeton University Club of Chicago (2013); “Outstanding Psychologist of the Year”; from the APA’s Division 31 (2014); APA Presidential Citation for Outstanding Leadership (2015); APA Karl Heiser award for Legislative Advocacy (2015); Alfred M. Wellner, Ph.D. Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Register of Health Service Psychologists (2016); Outstanding Psychologist Award from the Illinois Psychological Association (2016 and 2017); Social Impact Leaders Award from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (2018); “Outstanding Leadership” Award from AMITA Health (Ascension) Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital CEO, Clayton Ciha (2019); Inspirational Leader Award from the South African Psychological Society (2021); and “Honored Valued Ally” from the Society of Indian Psychologists (2022).

Dr. Rom-Rymer is completing a book, to be published by APA Press, The Revolution in Healthcare: How Prescribing Psychologists are Changing the Healthcare Delivery System and is running for APA President-elect in 2024.

READ THE FULL AJP REBUTTAL TO THE APA STATEMENT AFTER 10/7:

https://associationofjewishpsychologists.com/ajp-rebuttal-to-apa-statement/#

Explore free resources and access to AJP support groups and webinars:

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February 16, 2024 0 comments

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FLIP YOUR DIPLOMA – How anti-Semitism at Columbia University inspired a viral Alumni campaign

by Laura Kessler February 9, 2024

written by Laura Kessler

In her first appearance hosting BIPACT News, Jessica Emami interviews Asaf Eyal on his very public resignation from Columbia University’s School of Social Work where he served as a Field Instructor. After reporting disturbing mobs of antisemitic and anti-Zionist intimidation to administrators who did nothing to protect Jewish students, Asaf turned his diploma upside down and started a viral trend of alumni turning their degrees upside down to pressure campus administrators to take antisemitism seriously.

The Flip Your Diploma campaign went viral, and is now one of the forces challenging campus administrators to take a deeper look at pro-Hamas student organizations that have crossed the line of pro-Palestinian advocacy into pure unadulterated antisemitism.

Learn more about Asaf and the Flip Your Diploma Campaign, and catch more of Jessica on BIPACT News.

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ASAF EYAL

Asaf Eyal moved to New York, NY ten years ago from Rishon Le Zion, Israel with a keen interest in serving the unhoused population of the City. While living in Israel, and during his service in the IDF, he dedicated himself to helping underprivileged populations of the Jewish Ethiopian community in his hometown.

Asaf’s journey in New York City was as a student of the Masters of Social Work program at Columbia University School of Social Work. He also volunteered at a soup kitchen, graduating in 2017 and working his way up to becoming the Program Director of a large family shelter in Brooklyn, New York. He began empowering unhoused New Yorkers from the day he landed in New York, but in 2020, during the COVID19 crisis, his work was so exemplary that the City of New York awarded Asaf a Certificate of Appreciation for Dedicated Service, and going “above and beyond” to make sure the immigrants of New York have access to critical services the City provides.

A Licensed Master Social Worker, Asaf also served – until recently – as a graduate student field work instructor at Columbia University. But he resigned his position following the administration’s refusal to condemn a disruptive, antisemitic and hateful protest on campus that praised Hamas and condemned Israel, and interrupted a silent vigil at the School of Social Work held for the victims of the October 7, 2023 massacres in Israel.

While resigning, Asaf held his diploma upside down and posted his resignation on social media. His action sparked a movement of alumni from Columbia and other schools to “Flip Your Diploma” when they encountered similar antisemitism and discrimination.

Married to Dana with four children, Asaf also wrote a book last year about his encounters with homelessness that has been published in Israel, and will soon be published in English.

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South Africa & Israel, the ICJ and Solidarity Tourism

by Laura Kessler January 28, 2024

written by Laura Kessler

As a former South African who made Aliya, Jerusalem Correspondent Dani Rakoff shares his unique insight on the past, present and future of Jewish / South African relations. He shares his personal perspective on the Israel apartheid myth, and his concerns for the future safety of Jews living in South Africa. He also discusses his upcoming Israel Solidarity Tours to promote dialogues with a delegation of South African politicians and tribal leaders. BIPACT / Talking Point crossover episode with Laura Kessler.

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LAUREN ISAACS – Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation at Shanti Farm

by Laura Kessler January 27, 2024

written by Laura Kessler

In the latest episode of Israel Right Now, Lauren Isaacs takes us to Atlit near Haifa to explore Havat Ashanti (Shanti Farm), a special rescue sanctuary where animals are rehabilitated from war and abuse.

Learn how to donate or volunteer at Shanti Farm, and catch more of Lauren on BIPACT News.

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Lauren Isaacs is a Canadian-Israeli who made Aliyah at the age of 23. Lauren has worked in the Israel advocacy field for many years as a public speaker and Zionist activist for Hasbara Fellowships and Herut Canada, and is now a licensed Israeli tour guide. She currently lives in Jerusalem and loves traveling all over the Holy Land! Her tourism website is www.israelwithlauren.com

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Jewish Trauma & Mental Health Series, Part 1: Macro-Gaslighting

by Laura Kessler January 16, 2024

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Jewish Trauma & Mental Health, Part 1:

The Macro-Gaslighting of Global Jewry After 10/7

As Jewish TV Channel launches Part I of our Jewish Trauma & Mental Health Series, Laura Kessler sits down with 9/11 veteran trauma expert and Kesher Shalom co-founder Malka Shaw, LCSW to discuss the ongoing global mental health crisis affecting the Jewish community in Israel and the diaspora.

Kesher Shalom has trained thousands of professionals to manage the epic proportion of Jewish trauma since the Hamas massacre, and offers CEU credits to psychotherapists of all faiths who want to better understand the Jewish trauma experience, both historically and after 10/7 specifically.

DARVO, macro-gaslighting and collective scapegoating are discussed on a clinical and sociological level with a psychotherapist who is an expert among experts in the field of trauma, including Jewish trauma. Resources are provided with guided meditations for stress and worry.

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Malka Shaw is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of New Jersey, New York, and Florida. She has been in the field of mental health for over 25 years. As an expert on trauma, her private practice works with individuals and couples while specializing in women’s issues such as maternal wellness, anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, EMDR and support during life transitions.

Malka’s journey as a trauma therapist began working with NYANA’s domestic violence program, and then the front lines of 9/11, working with the Red Cross and FEMA during the ensuing weeks after the tragic event, helping to clinically debrief the police, firefighters, and the essential workers. She then went on to become an essential critical debriefer for many other large scale traumatic incidents.

In response to the events of October 7th and the ongoing situation, Malka Shaw, LCSW and Stacey Shapiro, LCSW, co-founded the Kesher Shalom Project, which seeks to foster healing, resilience, and understanding within the diverse Jewish community and beyond through education around mental health, support, and advocacy.