“I do believe that we should have our sights set on Eretz Yisrael. 100%. At the same time, I also believe that there are sparks that are still scattered around the world. And I think that some people have a mission to go and elevate those sparks.”

“I can’t find this connection anywhere else... I’d rather live somewhere connected, that I care about, rather than somewhere where I don’t know who my next door neighbor is.” - Joanna Landau

"No one was going after these people. No one was going to go to Mount Everest to bring him back. People dropped everything, They didn't have to be told or be asked. My home is on fire. My family is in trouble. "Hineni" - I'm here." - @JWRP2010

"Are we a religion? A nation? A people? A family? A culture? A race? An ethnicity? People usually shake their head and go 'we're all of them!' and I respond, 'we're all of them except one." - Rabbi Ken Spiro

"The miracle of the Jewish people is that our tree, wherever it lived around the world, from Russia to Poland, Galicia to Western Europe, South America, North America, Australia, New Zealand, wherever it was, we were in Japan or in Africa, in Europe and Asia. Our roots always remain in the holy land of Israel and the Jewish people fill it." @RabbiYYJacobson

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"Aliyah - I feel like the only way to describe it is you feel unstoppable. Because you're so charged by such a huge mission that you're kind of like yea, I'm doing this." - Raquel

When asked: what is home? Rabbi Manis Friedman  @manisfriedman  exclaims "we have forgotten what it feels like to be home."

Together we speak about our current reality as Jews, both in Israel and in the Diaspora, and provides practical advice on what we can do, regardless of where we find ourselves amidst this war.

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Laura E. Adkins is an award-winning writer, editor, and speaker based in New York. She is the Opinion Editor of the Forward.

Laura’s writing on antisemitism, Orthodox Judaism, data, and gender has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Glamour, and other outlets. She was previously the Opinion Editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the editor of Jewish Insider, and an assistant blogs editor at The Times of Israel.

Laura is a frequently requested speaker and leads hands-on writing workshops for a variety of organizations and nonprofit groups.

Get in touch with Laura: https://lauraeadkins.com/

Nissim Baruch Black is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer.

Under the stage name D. Black, he released the albums The Cause & Effect (2006) and Ali'yah (2009) and was featured on producer Jake One's debut album White Van Music (2008). He retired in 2011 to focus on his conversion to Orthodox Judaism.

Black and his wife Adina, with whom he has seven children, were initially married in 2008; they participated in an Orthodox Jewish marriage ceremony in 2013 after both had converted. Black and his family continued to live in Seward Park, the Seattle neighborhood where he grew up, until making aliyah to Israel in 2016 and settling in Jerusalem. Black has returned to his musical career under his new legal name Nissim Black and now focuses on Jewish Hip Hop. 

Rachie was born and raised in New York City. She has always been surrounded by jewels and watched how her mother ran her own successful jewelry company for twenty years. Rachie was inspired by the 'Warby Parker' approach and decided to create a line of fine jewelry (yes it is all real!) that is gorgeous, fun, timeless, rich, colorful, chic, relatable, sparkly and most of all accessible to everyone!

Aside from running a business, Rachie is a fierce Jewish and Israel activist. One of her famed Jewlery collections, the "Mazel Collection" was created in honor of her four grandparents, all Holocaust survivors, as well as her aunt who was murdered in Belzec at six years old. The collection is a testament that after the unimaginable loss of six million holy souls during the Holocaust and the rise of antisemitism in today’s world, we stand together strong and proud! 

Check out all of Rachie's amazing collections here: https://rachieshnay.com/

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