{"id":124363,"date":"2025-09-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=124363"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:46:33","slug":"22-00-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=124363","title":{"rendered":"Rosh Hashanah 2025: The World Won\u2019t Defend Us, So We Must Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/algem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\"><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2025\/09\/22\/rosh-hashanah-2025-the-world-wont-defend-us-so-we-must-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosh Hashanah 2025: The World Won\u2019t Defend Us, So We Must Lead<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Yuval David<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_0438.HEIC.png\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Jewish Americans and supporters of Israel gather at the National Mall in Washington, DC on Nov. 14, 2023 for the \u201cMarch for Israel\u201d rally. Photo: Dion J. Pierre\/The Algemeiner<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The world is not coming to save us. The world is not defending us. Lies about Jews and Israel dominate headlines, classrooms, social media, and government halls. Antisemites broadcast hatred openly. Too many movements that claim to fight oppression look the other way. Too many who say \u201cjustice\u201d abandon Jews in our hour of need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>If we sit quietly, we fail our ancestors, betray our children, and erase our future. The shofar is sounding. And it is demanding action.<\/em><b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">We are 0.2% of humanity \u2014 fewer than 16 million Jews on a planet of 8 billion. Tiny in number. Vast in responsibility. History proves that one Jewish voice can change the course of the world. One Jewish community can spark revolutions of morality. One Jewish action can protect life and defend truth. We are small, but we are unstoppable.<b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">I have spent my life standing up for Jews in spaces where many said, \u201cthis is not your fight.\u201d I have represented our people in civil rights, social justice, and human rights movements, and I have built bridges with Christians, Hindus, Druze, Jains, and Zoroastrians. From the arts, entertainment, and media spaces, to the LGBT, progressive, and Woke movements \u2014 to a diverse array of political and social movements on the right and the left \u2014 I have fought to ensure Jewish voices are heard where morality is debated and where the oppressed gather.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And I have also witnessed so much betrayal: many civil rights, social justice, and human rights organizations have turned their backs on Jews, normalized antisemitism, and excused attacks on us in the name of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Betrayal is not new \u2014 but it must not define us. It must define our response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">I don\u2019t fight back.&nbsp;I fight forward.&nbsp;I act&nbsp;on purpose and&nbsp;<em>with<\/em>&nbsp;purpose. Every day, in government, in broadcast and print media, in workshops and speaking engagements, in interfaith initiatives, social media, and online, I work to motivate, educate, inform, inspire, and activate Jews and allies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And the truth is simple:&nbsp;<strong>action begets action.<\/strong>&nbsp;Silence feeds the lies. Complacency fuels hatred.<b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But this is not my fight alone. There are many of us taking action. And, yet, I still see too many staying quiet. If I preach to the choir, I also help develop other preachers, and I also sing solo outside of the choir. Our echo-chamber is flimsy, so I work to empower and strengthen it, and also exist outside of it.<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Join me.<b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Join me politically \u2014 raise your voice, advocate for policies that protect Jews and Israel, confront antisemitism at every level, and hold leaders accountable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Join me socially \u2014 create, build, and strengthen Jewish and cross-cultural initiatives that stand for truth and justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Join me digitally \u2014 counter propaganda, amplify Jewish voices, challenge lies, and flood social platforms with fact and presence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Join me in real life \u2014 speak in your communities, schools, workplaces, campuses, and houses of worship. Make your Jewish identity and advocacy unavoidable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">We are a small people \u2014 but we are fierce. We are resilient, determined, and unbreakable. We fight forward, not backward. We thrive where others would bow. We lead where others hesitate.&nbsp;Am Israel Chai&nbsp;is not a slogan. It is a charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The shofar is blasting. The world will not wait. It will not defend us.&nbsp;It is up to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">On Rosh Hashanah, let this call awaken your courage. Let it ignite action. Let it remind you: Jews do not survive by shrinking. Jews survive \u2014 and Jews thrive \u2014 because we rise, speak, organize, and act. Not tomorrow. Not when it is convenient. Now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The future of our people is not in the hands of strangers, institutions, or those passing by. It is in ours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Act now. Lead. Fight forward. Make Jewish presence and advocacy impossible to ignore \u2014 in politics, society, and everywhere our people\u2019s truth is at stake.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><i><strong>Yuval David<\/strong> is an Emmy Award\u2013winning journalist, filmmaker, and actor. An internationally recognized advocate for Jewish and LGBT rights, he is a strategic advisor to diplomatic missions and NGOs, and a contributor to global news outlets in broadcast and print news. He focuses on combating antisemitism, extremism, and promoting democratic values and human dignity. 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