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New York Post
July 12, 2025
We’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places.
As a Jew, I was moved to tears last week at the Christians United for Israel annual summit in Oxon Hill, Md. Passionate support for the Jewish people from speakers and crowds was palpable —and overwhelming.
“In recent weeks, we have seen Jews murdered on the streets and Jewish businesses ransacked here in America . . . it’s shameful,” Pastor John Hagee said from the podium. “We are not going to allow the Jewish people to suffer on our watch!”
A good thousand people jumped out of their seat at the Gaylord Convention Center, just over 10 miles from Washington, DC, and cheered, many waving Israeli and American flags...
New York Post
June 1, 2025
The murder of a young Israeli couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, last month traumatized Jews nationwide — leaving many asking tough questions about the state of Jewish leadership in America. Their concern is understandable.
While the Hamas attack on Israel two Octobers ago thrust the Jewish nation into its longest war ever, it also ushered in unprecedented levels of antisemitism in the US. There were nearly 10,000 antisemitic incidents nationwide last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, a 5% increase over the record-breaking numbers in 2023 sparked by the war in Gaza.
Tablet Magazine
November 06, 2023
My whole life, I hated public speaking so much that I would feel queasy introducing myself to a dinner party. So I went characteristically mute in 2018 when Durham, North Carolina, Mayor Steve Schewel (yes, he is Jewish) and the City Council voted to boycott a police training program in Israel based on the antisemitic “deadly exchange” libel that a bloodthirsty cabal of Israelis would secretly teach American cops to hurt Black people...
Jerusalem Post
Febuary 21, 2023
I recently sat through a panel on antisemitism at my Reform synagogue in Durham, North Carolina, gripping my hands and clamping my lips shut.
My muzzled outrage was due to my synagogue’s decision to feature Steve Schewel as its star panelist, the instigator of a historic boycott against Israel when he was mayor of this city in 2018.
Foward
July 22, 2022
The Anti-Defamation League — the top defender of American Jews for more than a century — has named the enemy. It is I.
I am a stay-at-home mom in the leafy suburb of Durham, North Carolina. I drive a Volvo. I volunteer for Habitat for Humanity.
But I have reservations about the way U.S. history is being taught. I’m worried about what mask mandates reimposed at my daughters’ private middle and high schools might do to the mental health of our already-fragile kids. I believe these are concerns my school board needs to hear.
Tablet Magazine
June 07, 2021
“You think it’s over? It’s not o-ver,” my Great-Aunt Lee used to warn me, in a singsong voice, her forced smile wrapped up with some sort of awful knowing. “Antisemitism isn’t over. It’s never o-ver.”
Aunt Lee was crazy. Superstitiously spitting-after-compliments crazy. What antisemitism?
Then the mayor and city council of my hometown of Durham, North Carolina, enacted a resolution in support of what Jewish Voice for Peace dubbed “Deadly Exchange,” a toxic campaign to spook well-intentioned people into blaming Israel.
