Nourish Your Biblical Roots

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Schallom and welcome to nourish your biblical roots. I'm your host,
l Extein, President and Global CEO of the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews. It is my privilege to speak
with thought leaders, authors, pastors, politicians and influencers about Jewish
Christian relations, Israel and other issues that are important to
people of faith today, and I am so pleased to

(00:30):
welcome Daniel Coren. Daniel is a former journalist, an advocate
for Israel, and an expert on anti Semitism who has
spoken with and been published in The Jerusalem Post, The
Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Times of Israel,
The Algaminer, Israel National News, and many other outlets. Daniel
is the founder and executive director of Allied Voices for Israel,

(00:53):
which educates students across Canada about anti Semitism and unites
them in friendship with Israel and the Jewish people. As
we've seen anti Semitism on the rise around the world,
here in Israel and the United States and in Canada,
Daniel's work of reaching the next generation is so important
and I am excited to speak with him today. So

(01:14):
Daniel Corean, welcome to my podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'm so excited to sark more about you and your
organization and your journey. But let's start off by hearing
about you. How did your upbringing and your education lead
to the way that you work today. Can you give
us a little glimpse into your childhood and where you
were raised, what your values were, if you were connected
to Israel, and how that paved the path or where

(01:40):
we see you today.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah. Absolutely, I'll try to be brief. I was born
in Israel. We lived in Rishel Matsion. But it's funny
I always say to people that I'm from Robot because
I left at the age of five, and I guess
I was one of the lucky ones that my mother
was a teacher. She's been a teacher at the Ali

(02:03):
here in Toronto for over thirty years, so she had
the summers off, so I was able to spend my
summers always in Israel, and we spent our summers in
Roobot at my Babula's house, Mysef and Rohobot. We are
Buchari Jews. You know, that's not something that was immediately
communicated to me, and my parents just said, oh, you know,
we're Russian Israeli, you know, because they spoke Russian as

(02:25):
their first language. And then it became clear to me,
you know that you know, we don't really look like
the other Russians, you know. And eventually I kind of
found out this very unique and incredible story of the
Buhari Jewish people. And it's something I guess I really
wear on my sleeve today as an advocate, only because
a nobody knows what it is, what it is to

(02:47):
be Buchari, or knows about that story and b especially
when people love to talk about Jews as quote unquote
white colonizers or European you know, I love to mention
my own upbringing, in my own DNA, you know, which
has never gone through Europe, growing up in the Jewish
That's a great opportunity.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I think most of our listeners do not know what
a Buharian Jew is. Can you just get tell us
a little bit about that?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, so we we have the best food and everyone
in Israel knows. Yeah, so essentially it's very funny. Historians
agreed also, Oh, thank you very much. Yes we do.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
So.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
My wife is Ashkenazi, but our wedding was very much
Buhari and I think after that all the Ashkenazim said,
this is the way we have to do weddings. For
if you have one hundred people, you have enough food
to feed five hundred people. Many historians agree that the
Buharian Jews fled and were exiled from Israel during actually

(03:45):
the Babylonian Exile, and that they moved through Babylon, and
that they were in Babylon I believe it was in
the sixth century, and then from there they moved further east.
You know. So for the case of the Buharian Jews,
we moved into the Great Empire of Persia and the
Persian Empire, and we were there for I would say,

(04:05):
probably over a millennia or so. And then eventually they
found themselves in the Emirate of Buhara and then that
whole region of what is today it was Pakistan, and
you know, to to Jikistan and Kazakhstan, and they kind
of developed their own unique identity as Buhari Jews, where

(04:27):
they ate the local foods, but obviously Jewish versions of that,
and they developed their own distinct language. And it's something
that's very interesting that when we speak about Yiddish, you know,
as a Hebrew language that incorporated the local language of
German with Hebrew into Yiddish. The Buchari people did the
same thing, and they took the local language of Parsi

(04:50):
and incorporated it with Biblical Hebrew and came up with
this language of Buchari. So when when when I speak
as an educator about why Jews are indigenous to Israel, well,
I'll always use the story that, you know, you had
these Jews from all over, there was no Internet, there
was no connection to any of them, but yet this
language of Hebrew was so important to them, you know.

(05:12):
So today you would look at Buhari Jews as Central
Asian Jews, and I guess we're close cousins to the Kafkazin,
who I think you could also call the Mountain Jews.
You know, there's only I believe, around two hundred thousand
of us or so in the world. Fifty thousand or
so are in Queens in a small neighborhood in New York,
fifty to seventy thousand are in Israel, and the rest

(05:34):
are scattered. Wow. Yeah, it's a very interesting and complex identity.
And we're a minority within a minority. Wow.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
So how did that affect you growing up to become
a journalist, a very passionate Zionist, and to work on
fighting anti Semitism.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It inspired me in so many ways. When we move
to a suburb north of Toronto called thorn Hill, which
is a very Jewish suburb, it was funny because I
didn't feel like I was Jewish like everybody else around me,
because everybody else around me was second or third or
fourth generation Canadian overwhelmingly Ashkenazi, simply because of you know,

(06:21):
immigration patterns, and Baharimoni started leaving really at the end
of the Soviet Union, at the end of the Cold War.
My family was hardcore Zionists, so they left the second
they could from Soviet Union, which was in nineteen seventy six.
But growing up in thorn Hill, even though there were
so many Jews around me, I still always felt very different.

(06:42):
And also, I guess once I actually learned about the Holocaust,
even though our family hadn't lost anyone in the Holocaust,
because the war didn't reach us where we were in
Soviet Union in that way, and you know, we weren't
affected in that way. Knowing, I guess that this could

(07:02):
have happened to us, and that this would have happened
to us simply by being Jewish, you know, really had
this incredible effect on me, and then I guess connected
me even more. I'd say to the astronazer Jewish community
around me, you know, and then I could recall, you know,
I was. I didn't realize. I didn't realize a lot
of things about myself until I became, you know, a

(07:23):
professional advocate. You know. I there was public speaking finals
in my school and I always wrote something about the Holocaust,
and I always got to the finals, and I for
three years in a row, I did one about the Holocaust.
Then I did the next year about Shindler, and then
the next year about Hitler. And it was crazy that
I really immersed myself into this, you know, because as

(07:44):
the Buhari and as Israelis, we we weren't connected to
Ja or any of these orgs because we were still
like such fresh immigrants. But Israel and Zionism and Judaism
were in our house. We're part of who we were.
Every single thing that we did, so I'd say very
much influenced who I am as a person today. My

(08:04):
parents very much influenced who I am as a person
today and being that proud Zionist and that proud Jew,
but also being a person of the world. You know,
my father grew up with many Muslims, with many Persians,
with many Georgians, with many Mongolians, with many different types
of people, you know, when he was typically the token Jew,

(08:28):
and I guess that did have an effect on me
in terms of where I am today running an organization
focused on Israel but also on Ali ship.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Wow, so you founded the organization Allied Voices for Israel,
But before that you were a journalist. It sounds like
you did lots of publishing in high school and you
were very connected to telling the story and researching the
story different aspects of the Holocaust.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
What was your.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Niche and passion when you were working in journalism and
how did it lead you to founding Allied Voices for Israel.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
So hilariously, my passion is and was music. Yeah, my
mother has been a choir teacher for over thirty years.
We grew up with music in our house and now
I have two kids there, two and a half and
five and a half, and overwhelmingly I try to ensure
that music is a big part of their lives and

(09:21):
I was trying to make it as a music journalist.
You know. I guess I was a bit lost in
my early twenties. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do,
and I guess my biggest passion was music. So the
journalism I did was focused on music. And interestingly, as
I started writing some articles in the Canadian Jewish News

(09:45):
as a freelancer, still focused on culture and music. That's
actually kind of what led me into the Jewish world,
you know, where I continued to try to have a
focus on music and culture because I was just a
big part of my life. But eventually, I guess I
had more of a focus and more of an interest
on Israel, on advocacy. You know, there was a time,

(10:09):
I believe when I remember when I was a Canadi
Jewish nis and I was reading these op eds that
I didn't just that I didn't agree with, and I
was editing them, and I thought, you know what, I
don't want to do this anymore. I really want to.
I believe my passion now is Israel. And it kind
of was just this natural progression, you know. And it's
funny because you don't it's not until you start doing
it that you realize, Wow, this was set in stone.

(10:32):
You know, this, this is this is something I was
meant to do. You know, since I was a child.
It's been such a pivotal part of my life. Anyone
who knows me, says, Daniel number one Jew, biggest Jew,
even if we weren't, you know, religious or observant in
the classical sense. But even then, I'm recognizing that I
question now what it means to be religious and what

(10:53):
it means to be observant, because I'm such a I'm
so involved in this community in so many ways. But
it was really a natural progression, I guess, from music
into Israel. And then a lot of the journalism I
was doing was focused on Israel and was focused on
anti Semitism. But even then it wasn't kind of enough
for me. And that's when I thought, you know what,
I want to move into advocacy specifically. And it was

(11:15):
at that time I was being poached by the Neighbors Canada,
which is a very well known human rights organization here
in Canada, you know, So it was it was a
very natural transition, even though you wouldn't quite think those
two music to Israel would be so natural, but it was.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Wow, incredible, So tell us about Allied Voices for Israel.
What does your organization do?

Speaker 2 (11:39):
So I found it and with an incredible group of people,
had the opportunity to establish this organization in March of
twenty twenty three was when we came up with the idea,
and we launched in July of twenty twenty three, just
three months before October seventh. The idea was because I've

(12:01):
been a Jewish community professional now since twenty eleven twenty twelve,
and because I had such a unique I think experience
as a buchari and in my twenties, I did a
lot of work, you know, to put myself to school
as a server, and I was always with the token
Jew anywhere I went. And I recognized that simply by
being a Jewish person, and most Canadians, especially in certain areas,

(12:25):
have never met a Jewish person, I was able to
educate and correct so many of the wrongs and the
stereotypes and the propaganda that people would would talk about
as it pertains to Jewishness, you know. And that was
a proactive form of advocacy that I didn't even realize myself,
you know, because I was just always I always wore

(12:46):
my m again, David, and my heart on my sleeve.
And you know, I'm the type of person that if
I see somebody and I'm wearing it, I'm thinking, oh,
I'm going to go out of my way to be
very nice or very this, or show them, you know
that whatever they they've heard or whatever negative things they've
simply aren't true, you know, And I'm going to make
an impact on this person's life. He who saves one

(13:08):
life saves the world entire I really believe in that,
and I believe that if you're able to make an
impact on one person's life, you can make an impact
on that entire community, you know. So it was again
something I didn't realize when I was doing it as
just a Jewish Canadian, as an Israeli. But then when
I had this opportunity to create something on my own,

(13:29):
I thought, I like, ship and education, you know, are
the most proactive forms of advocacy that we can do.
And we're always being told in the advocacy space, stop responding,
be more proactive, be more proactive, stop responding to every
little thing. But you know, but try to do things preemptively.

(13:49):
And I recognize that simply by engaging in conversations and
by introducing the Jewish story and by educating you know,
non Jews that that is a form of advocacy and
thathip it's a form of advocacy. And I sold that
idea essentially to stakeholders, to staff, to board members you

(14:11):
know who agreed. Wow, Daniel, you know, I think you're
onto something here because I said, let's try to create
a movement where we can unite Jewish students and non
Jewish students so that Jewish students aren't fighting this battle
on their own, you know, because overwhelmingly I've seen right
any campus you went to, it would be Jewish students
waving Israeli flags on their own. But we do have allies,

(14:34):
and I think, especially post October seventh, we've seen that
we have incredible allies in the Christian community, the Catholic community,
the Hindu community, the Iranian community, and other communities. So
it was something I felt, we need to create a
movement of our own, you know, where we can build
bridges proactively and not just ask those allies to stand

(14:56):
with our community, but ensure that we are also there
for their community. Because ship is a two way street.
You know, and it was from there that we were
able to launch this organization.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
How incredible. So you've really seen firsthand how anti Semitism
is on the rise, and you came to create a solution,
a very interesting solution that's very aligned with the work,
of course, of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Of Yes, it is all faiths working together in order
to stand together for the sanctity of life and for

(15:26):
justice and for these values that we all hold dear
against a threat that's very relevant to all of us.
But you have been on the forefront, the front lines
of anti Semitism being on the rise as a journalist,
as a previous journalist, what role do you see the
media playing in the spread of anti Israel and antisemitic messaging?

Speaker 2 (15:47):
So I see social media, especially playing the biggest role, Right.
I very much am a believer in coexistence, in peace
and in partnership, and I look at Canada and the
United States as those countries where people from all over
the world can come and can coexist with one another. Right,

(16:09):
And I think what social media has done is it's
eliminated the ability to have real and meaningful and nuanced conversations.
You know, I don't think we can ever get a
real message across in seventy two characters or less or
whatever it is. And I think social media has kind
of trained us to be in this activism mindset. We

(16:33):
were always against something. There's always a versus, there's always
an opponent when it comes to social media, and I
believe that has now brought us to this new world
where we can't get along anymore. You know, where Republicans
and Democrats in America can't go along, we're liberals and
conservatives in Canada can't get along. Where Israelis and Palestinians

(16:56):
can't even have conversations, right, And I think the part
politics of Israel and the politics taking place there are
its own thing. You know, when people try to have
those conversations with me here, I'm like, so, how does
that justify you come into places of worship and attacking
us and saying hateful rhetoric and espousing, you know, violent

(17:19):
rhetoric towards us Jewish Canadians. Right, whether I support Israel
or not, that is not the ideal of Canada. That
is not the dream you know of Canada. The dream
of Canada is that you come here, you abide by
the morals and values that we cherish here, and that
we engage in respectful dialogue, and even if we disagree,

(17:40):
we shake hands and we go on our way. Social media,
I believe, has led us to that, and then the
traditional media, I would say, has been has been taken
advantage of by social media because it became to this
place where we have to keep up. Everything is no

(18:00):
longer about quality and about researching a piece, or about
about objectivity. It's about who is the first person to
run the most sensationalist headline. And because the anti Israel
movement has been so prominent in so many ways, and
because propaganda that you wouldn't think would be normalized had
become normalized again, we're seeing it come from the media

(18:23):
and it's very it's even the most innocuous things, you know,
headlines from certain media outlets, And it's really tragic to
me that we no longer have media that we can
depend on to simply report the news, give us the
facts without any political agendas, and us as educated, intelligent individuals,

(18:45):
will make up our minds on our own. That was
always how I understood the media, but that is no
longer the case. You know when we have publicly funded
media here in Canada, CBC, which you know as a
as a music and the music journalist. I appreciated, you know,
fur their music for their taste in music, but when
it comes to geopolitics and news, they are a disgusting

(19:08):
bias and disgusting anti Israel slant and they are not
reporting accurately right, and this is influencing people negatively, and
they are not sharing the truth. They are not sharing
the facts. And that's where you know, when there's something
to say, to be critical about Israel. Please, every single
Israeli I know are the most critical people about Israel.

(19:29):
There's nothing wrong with being critical. I actually encourage being critical.
But what we see the media doing today is engaging
in disinformation and propaganda and contributing to the anti Semitism
on the streets that we're experiencing.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
So Daniel, you work to reach millions of young people
and to teach them not just about anti Semitism, but
you give them the opportunity to be friends with a
real life Israeli and a real life Jewish person. And
I know that you must face some challenges there. What
are the biggest challenges that you face when you do
this work, and that all of us space while we're
trying to combat anti Semitism from reaching the next generation.

(20:05):
What are the obstacles?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
There are so many obstacles, you know. I think, going
on speaking to my previous port point, it's the inability
to have a conversation, right, you know. I think what's
happened is we've allowed the radicals and the fringe minority
to write the narratives for us, and where the media

(20:29):
is allowing it, and our society is allowing it, and
our government are allowing it. And what that does is
it creates the scenario where we cannot engage. I can
remember times fifteen years ago, when eighteen years ago when
I went to a clubs, when I went to a
club or a bar or whatever it was, and I
would run into Arabs, I would run into Palestinians, and

(20:50):
sometimes it would be tense, but many times it would
be oh where are you from? Oh? And from Israel?
You know, because we all look alike. So you people
will always ask me, Daniel, where are you from, you know?
And I'll say, oh, I'm from Israel, Oh I'm from Palestine,
and we'll look at each other. We want peace, we
want coexistence, shake hand, wow? Right? And today just to
say I am in Israeli, there are certain people who

(21:13):
will automatically refuse to have a conversation with me, who
will automatically refuse to see my humanity. And that, I
would say, is the biggest challenge, that we cannot see
the humanity in one another anymore, right, right? And I
think post October seven, this has now affected the Jewish
community as well when it comes to my work specifically
on campus. You know, the biggest challenges, there's been many challenges,

(21:36):
you know what I say, The biggest challenges have been
the universities are not enforcing the laws and the guidelines
and and the bylaws that already exist, right when we
are saying to them that these messages are hateful, that
all of this is being politicized, that this is affecting
the mental well being not just of Jewish students, of

(21:58):
students who have who are victims of terrorism, who a
family who have victims of terrorism. You know, students who
are a Christian are being attacked, Students who are conservative
politically are being attacked. Students who are Hindu are being attacked. These,
I would say, are the biggest challenges that when the
universities don't step up, when they don't put a stop

(22:19):
to hate fest, to hate rallies, right, the content we
see on social media every single day, you know, gets
worse and worse, right. And if you don't have the
government stepping in and telling these universities enough, you are
not allowed to students should not be allowed right to

(22:41):
take over your university, to spread their harmful political agendas,
to spread their hate right targeting minorities on your campus.
You have to step in, You as the adult, has
to make sure that this is not taking place. And
that's really been the biggest problem at all. You know,
our students that are involved with our organization are constantly docked,

(23:05):
They are harassed simply by wearing them again, David, they
are attacked, they get dirty looks, you know. And again
it's this idea that other students are not recognizing their humanity.
And where I think a lot of the stems from,
especially are anti Israel Marxist professors and faculty members who
have now become the gate keepers to certain to certain

(23:31):
fields within academia where they are they are the ones
leading this conversation. They are the ones saying attack the Zionists,
go after the Zionist. Israel is terrible, Israel is evil.
You can comb through their socials. They don't say a
word about real abusers of human rights. They don't say
a word about Iran, or North Korea or Venezuela. But

(23:53):
they're obsessed with Israel, right, and this leads to the
targeting and demonization of Jewish and our allies. And if
we continue to allow these tenured professors to get away
with this, to promote hate, to turn our universities into
boxic environments, then we won't be able to get out

(24:14):
of this situation that we find ourselves in. Wow.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
So there are some shocking and very disturbing things that
you said there, and I'm sure there's also a few
inspiring stories. Can you tell us, yes, absolutely happy ending
something something encouraging that you've experienced in your work with
Allied voices for Israel.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
So I actually can share so much, you know, because
it isn't all doom and gloom. And one of the
things I'd say, working with young students especially has shown
me that it isn't all the doom and gloom because
the students that I work with are so brave. They're
so courageous, they put themselves out there, they speak up,
and that gives me hope for the future every single day.

(24:56):
You know, another thing I would say to your listeners
is I post October seventh, especially, we've been in this
bubble and we have been kind of obsessed with anti Semitism,
and understandably so, but that's also kind of taken away
our ability to see the good things that are happening
as well in the world. And even for myself, I

(25:18):
grapple with this constantly, you know, because I have two
small children. I want them to have a future in Canada.
I don't agree with this idea that we should all
make Aliyah, everybody needs to leave, Let's leave Canada the
United States. I look at that as a defeatist attitude,
even though even when I've considered it myself at certain times,
you know, I don't believe it's helpful. We have to

(25:40):
be strong, we have to be here, you know. So
to answer your question, I've had so many experiences with
students who have really who have really shown me the light.
You know, I can share one example, I can share many,
but I can share an example of a student who

(26:01):
is Muslim at McGill University, who who first started getting
involved with our organization and was and you know, had
actually obviously her concerns, you know, about being a vocal
advocate for Israel while also being a Muslim Canadian student,
you know. And I remember meeting with her and even
meeting with her with her mom and hearing those concerns

(26:22):
and understanding, you know, and ultimately I would never push
anyone to do anything they were uncomfortable with, but I
could tell for her that she felt that she had
to right and that she had to put her voice
out there, and that she had to make a difference,
you know. So she ended up speaking at one of
the rallies we were organizing, and this was a couple
months after October seventh, maybe it was in April, you know,

(26:45):
six months something like that, and the people in the
audience were in tears, right because here she was saying,
I am a Muslim student standing for you, standing for
this community. And I think our community was traumatized obviously
at that point that it just brought so many of
them to tears. And following that Riley she spoke at

(27:06):
other rallies, at other events we brought her to speak
at the Coming Center and Montreal to a group of
Holocaust survivors, and the Holocaust survivors were in tears, you know.
And now she's gone on her own as a content creator,
as an influencer, as an educator. I think she'll be
happy and appreciate me sharing her name. Her name is
ray Hanna Adira, and she has been a tremendous advocate

(27:31):
not just for Israel, but for peace and for coexistence.
And she also speaks about Islamophobia and that anti Muslim
hatred is real. She also speaks about experiences even within
the Jewish community where people have thought certain stereotypes about
her or whatever. And I think that, you know, is
so important for the healing process and for us to
have those conversations, you know. So I wouldn't say there's

(27:53):
been a happy ending, because it has an end, and
she continues to do incredible work. But that's been something
very inspiring for me. And one other short story I
would share. When we first launched this organization, and we
have Israel in our name, there were no student clubs,
official student clubs who would partner with any of our students.
When we launched this in July of twenty twenty three,

(28:13):
and after two years of doing this work, we have
brought students to Israel. Because I haven't even spoken. We
have a flagship program called common Ground, who were bringing
Jewish and on Jewish students to Israel to explore the
diversity of Israel, to explore the incredible democracy of Israel.
And we brought students who are Muslim, who are a Black,
who are a Christian, who are a Catholic, who are Hindu,

(28:36):
and then they come back to their respective campuses and
they try to help find that common ground, and that's
why we call it common Ground. And after two years
of doing this, now we have student clubs, Hindu student
clubs who are officially working with US, Ethiopian student clubs
who have officially worked with US Christian student clubs, and
so on. And I believe as we can continue to

(28:57):
do this work, the the more impact we can make
and the more we can nit antisemitism in the bud
before it rears its ugly head. And that's what I
mean by proactive. We're leading a delegation of students to
Israel in five weeks, fifty percent of the students coming
with us, our allies who are students who aren't Jewish,

(29:19):
but who want to make a difference, men who want
to build this new movement you know where we can
all see the humanity in one another, where where we
can coexist, right, A common sense movement for common sense people.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Amazing incredible work that you do. So unfortunately it's time
to end, but I would love to hear some final
words of wisdom. Sometimes people share a Bible verse that
inspires them or a quote that they turn to during
hard times. Can you leave us with one thought that
our audience should have in their hearts right now?

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yes, my father has said something to me. Three words
that that are That are my mantra that I wear
on my sleeve. Life is beautiful and as dark as
it can be, as depressing as it can be, as
evil as it can be. We have to remind ourselves

(30:16):
of the beauty, of the light, of the incredible opportunity
of simply being alive in this world. Right, we lost
so many people. On October seventh, I lost a cousin
at the Nova festival. Weeks later, I lost my cousin.
There was murdered in Israel after October seventh, unrelated to it.

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And and and I spiraled and it was such a
dark time for me, and my other cousin made this
for my fortieth birthday. It's a beautiful thing, so I
have it always in the zoom and I try to
remind myself by all the darkness that our community has faced,
especially life is beautiful and we have a responsibility, especially

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as as Jews right, to to take advantage of life,
to do everything we can while we are here, to
be as vocal, as strong, as confident, as hard as
it is while we are here, because you never know
when it can be taken away and and there, and

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we can find incredible beauty in life, in community and family,
in Judaism, in culture and religion, and in so many things,
you know. So I hope that is a message that
can resonate with your with your listeners.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Beautiful Daniel Kran, thank you so much for your time.
I know that I speak for all of my audience
and all of us at the Fellowship and thanking you
for the very important work that you do for Israel,
for Jewish people, and for everyone who cherishes freedom around
the world. Thank you so much, Daniel, Thank

Speaker 2 (31:56):
You, Yelle to Mon