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Volume 17, Issue 52
“The United States strongly condemns the heinous terrorist attack in Australia targeting a Hanukkah celebration hosted by Chabad-Lubavitch of Bond. We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community and with the Australian people as we pray for the victims and their families… No community should have to fear publicly celebrating their faith and traditions due to the threat of extremist violence and terror.”
— Statement by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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Chanukah is the story of Jewish unity, of strength, of dignity, and of our very identities. We are all trying to grapple with the horror of what occurred yesterday at Bondi Beach, Australia.
By now, the identities of the 15 murdered include a 12-year-old girl, a Chabad rabbi, and a Holocaust survivor. The words of comfort and resilience that I have written have come much too often to me.
We have written so many of these tributes for far too many Jews, from Washington, DC, to the Passover shooting at a Chabad center in Poway, California, The Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Jersey City, New Jersey killing of two individuals at a kosher supermarket, to someone marching into a rabbi’s home with a machete in Monsey, New York, and murdering one, to all of the egregious attacks on religiously garbed Jews, and to the hostility, alienation and open discrimination that many of our students have been facing on campuses across the nation.
We wish all the families some way of finding peace of mind, meaning and closure.
May your candles you light this Chanukah allow you to bring comfort and warmth to your home, strength to your spirit, and Tikvah, hope for the days ahead.
As we celebrate the miracles of Chanukah, we also pause to reflect on the people who make our work possible. This holiday reminds us of the enduring strength and resilience of the Jewish people, both past and present, as well as the power of each individual to bring light into the world.
We are deeply grateful for our friends, partners, and supporters who stand with us, encourage us, and help us turn the tide of misinformation and hostility toward Israel and the Jewish people by building credible, cross-community bridges grounded in truth, shared values, and real relationships.
Just as each candle on the menorah brightens the next, each person who joins our community expands the impact we can have together. Now is a time for unity, and to cling to our Jewish identities.
We Jews are a resilient people. We will never allow this light to be extinguished, and our people to be erased from this planet.
From all of us at EMET, Chanukah Sameach!
And please, if ever there was a time to pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act, it is today! Please call your senators at (202) 224-3121, and your Congressmen at (202) 225-3121 and tell them that NOW is the time to finally pass this important Bill, HR 1007 in the House, and S 558 in the Senate. Thank you.
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Featuring Andrew Fox of the Henry Jackson Society
On the Present and Future of Warfare from Gaza to Lebanon to Tehran
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2025
Time: 12 Noon, Eastern Standard Time, 5 p.m. London Time, 7 p.m. Jerusalem Time
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Although many Americans, surrounded by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Canda and Mexico, have grown used to living in peaceful times, the Middle East is vastly different than that, where vengeful grievances from centuries prior are being played out in today’s battlefields. How, from the point of view of a retired British Army office and research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, is Israel fairing with the wars on several of her fronts? How, compared to other wars fought in densely packed urban settings, is Israel doing in Gaza? Will Hamas enter Phase Two of President Trump’s negotiations. Is Hezbollah regrouping and rebuilding? How is Ahmed al -Sharaa handling his Druze, Alawite, Christian and Kurdish populations? Does he still have eyes of the Golan Heights and why have the Turkish armed forces been welcome into Syria? Why is Egypt building up in the Sinai, and how soon will it be before Israel will have to re-attack Iran?
About our Speaker: Andrew Fox served in the British Army from 2005 to 2021, completing three tours in Afghanistan, including one attached to the US Army Special Forces. He served in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Forces Support Group, with additional tours in Bosnia, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland.
After his active service, he spent three years as a senior lecturer in the War Studies and Behavioural Science departments at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Andrew specializes in defense, the Middle East, and disinformation. He holds degrees in Law & Politics, Modern War Studies, and Psychology.
His extensive experience has established him as a recognised authority in his field and he provides regular commentary on defence and foreign policy across the media including articles in the New York Post, the Telegraph and Spiked. He has amassed a large following across his digital platforms, including X (formerly Twitter) and Substack, where he writes on disinformation, defence and security as stories develop.
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