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Cohen, Louis Finkelman, Samantha Foon, Yevgeniya Gazman, Stacy Gittleman, Gary Graff, Esther Allweiss Ingber, Barbara Lewis, Jennifer Lovy, Rabbi Jason Miller, Alan Muskovitz, Karen Schwartz, Robin Schwartz, Steve Stein, Nathaniel Warshay, Julie Smith Yolles, Ashley Zlatopolsky Advertising Sales Director of Advertising: Keith Farber kfarber@thejewishnews.com Senior Account Executive: Kathy Harvey-Mitton kmitton@thejewishnews.com | Business Office Director of Operations: Amy Gill agill@thejewishnews.com Operations Manager: Ashlee Szabo Circulation: Danielle Smith Billing Coordinator: Pamela Turner | Production By Farago & Associates Manager: Scott Drzewiecki Designers: Kaitlyn Iezzi, Kelly Kosek, Michelle Sheridan 6 | AUGUST 8 • 2024 J N But if we’re serious about revitalizing the Jewish brand — which is our most valuable asset — we must bring more noise to the Jewish act of bringing goodness, of bringing a positive spirit to the world around us. How can we do that? One way is if every Jewish event — whether for major groups like the ADL, AJC and Federations or smaller neighborhood groups — would feature one Jew who is giving back to the world and is not connected to that par- ticular cause. Just a Jew doing good things. This would offer hundreds of occasions each year to make some noise about Jews and goodness. I can envi- sion Jewish organizations taking 10% of their “fighting antisemitism” budgets and allocating it to promoting Jews who share their contributions — from grade school kids to Holocaust survivors, from entertainers to scientists, from doctors and artists to archi- tects and volunteers in soup kitchens. The good thing, of course, is that these Jews are every- where. They’re the easiest peo- ple to find. The spreading of Jewish contributions, creativity and goodness won’t just revitalize the Jewish brand throughout America, it will also provide a welcome injection of positive energy into our anxious com- munity. Yes, we must never relent in fighting for the safety of Jews. But we must also never relent in honoring the Jewish way of never settling, of always aim- ing higher. We are determined fighters when we are forced to be, but we are givers always. And giving, from what I hear, helps reduce anxiety. David Suissa is editor-in-chief and publisher of Tribe Media Corp and Jewish Journal. He can be reached at davids@jewishjournal.com. Originally published by Jewish Journal. PURELY COMMENTARY continued from page 4 Yiddish Limerick Tisha b’Av On Tisha b’Av, mir hobn gelozt undzer Beit HaMikdash, der tzay So, mir gadaynkn un mir fastn on that day. Mir layanan der Book of Lamentations Farvos mir hob gelozn undzer nation, Mir still gadaynkn un zogn, oy vay. On Tisha b’Av — On the Ninth of Av mir hobn gelozt undzer — we lost our Beit HaMikdash — Holy Temple der tzvay — the two mir gadaynkn — we remember un mir fastn — and we fast Mir layanan der — we read the Farvos mir hobn gelozt undzer — because we lost our Mir still gadaynkn — We still remember un zogn oy vay — and say woe to us. By Rachel Kapen