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Testimony by Rabbi Ariella Rosen for the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism
This duality is so important for navigating being a Jew in our time: don't be naive, don’t be brutal. The threat to Jewish safety is real, and exists across the political spectrum, showing up in many different ways, including sometimes under the guise of “helping the Jew.” But in our response to fear of threat, or deep pain at experienced harm, let us not allow the tactics that have been used against us to be used in our name against others. Read more.
An Inclusive Community
We Are Grateful to Our Major Funders
Congregation B’nai Israel recognizes and honors the original inhabitants who first settled in the valley of the Kwinitekw River. CBI acknowledges that we are on Nonotuck land. We also acknowledge our neighboring Indigenous nations: the Nipmuc and the Wampanoag to the East, the Mohegan and Pequot to the South, the Mohican to the West, and the Sokoi Abenaki to the North.