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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 08/10/2026

6/ Near the end, the whole room sang Kol HaOlam Kulo. The whole world is a very narrow bridge, and the main thing is not to be afraid at all. We'd shown ID and opened our bags to get in. Then we sang it like we meant it.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 08/10/2026

4/ One chapter of the night was called The Longing for Peace. The songs this community chose for it: I Was Born for Peace, and We Don't Need Anything More Than This. Remember that next time someone tells you what we want.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 08/10/2026

3/ Beside a card for Chen Ben-Avi, 22, sat a plate of her favorite: stuffed grape leaves. Eldest of four, raised in Mivtahim near the Gaza border. Known for her laugh and for bringing people together. Murdered at the Nova festival. Nobody in that room was a number.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 08/10/2026

2/ Three years ago, Hamas terrorists went house to house through southern Israel. One called his parents from a kibbutz to brag that he'd killed ten Jews with his own hands. They came to kill Jews. They killed anyone in the way.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 08/10/2026

🧵 1/ This came with my registration for an October 7 memorial tonight in Fairfax, VA. Bring photo ID. Security on site. Every bag inspected. All of it so we can sit in an auditorium and listen to songs for the dead. This is what it takes to mourn as a Jew in America now.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 26/05/2026

Game 4 in Cleveland with the boys. Sweep. 130-93. Brunson MVP. Clyde next to him. First time witnessing this live. Got to share it with my sons. Worth every dollar. Dreamed of this since the Starks Dunk hung over my bed as a kid. Four more wins. 🟠🔵

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 23/05/2026

JAHM feels heavier this year. Our community is tired. We’re grieving. We’re watching antisemitism show up in places we never thought we’d see it. Grateful to have a Governor who sees it too, and who’s willing to say so plainly. Jewish Virginians are safer when our leaders refuse to look away.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 23/05/2026

Did someone say road trip? Let’s go Knicks! 🏀⛹🏼‍♂️

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 20/05/2026

🧵 1/ There's a Jewish teaching on my mind this week. Lo tirah. Don't look away. A Texas Democrat running for Congress is openly talking about putting Jews in camps. Of course, Monique Alcalá was one of the first voices calling on the TDP to disavow her. That's exactly who she is.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 20/05/2026

Just walked out of a meeting with @mcclellan.house.gov on the Jewish American Security Act. She didn’t watch the clock. She asked real questions. She’d done her homework. I walked in hopeful. I walked out grateful. She gets it. @jfederations.bsky.social @jcrcgw.bsky.social

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/05/2026

Honored to spend time with Senator @senwarner.bsky.social today. We walked through the Jewish American Security Act, full NSGP funding, and the personnel cap reform. He has been a partner for Virginia’s Jewish community for years. Grateful for his time and attention. Our safety is not optional.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/05/2026

Thank you to @repvindman.bsky.social for listening this morning. Two weeks ago, someone painted swastikas at Stafford High School. Walls don’t write themselves. He learned that on a phone. The Jewish American Security Act would make the platforms show their work. @jfederations.bsky.social

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/05/2026

On Capitol Hill this morning with the Virginia delegation at the Jewish Federations fly-in. Two percent of the country. Seventy percent of the religiously motivated FBI hate crime targets. The threat is not a statistic. It's a forecast. Our safety is not optional. Our security is not negotiable.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/05/2026

"We have taught a generation about Jewish death and forgotten to teach them about Jewish life." From a piece I published last night on what Holocaust education isn't doing, and what Virginia law already requires us to add. 🔗 to article in comments.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 16/05/2026

A congressman wants a Virginia state senator denaturalized and deported over a bill he sponsored. Jews know this move. Your citizenship is conditional on the right opinions. Pointed at one community today. Another tomorrow. Name it.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/05/2026

🧵1/ Hartwood District School Board Member Shannon Fingerholz addressed the May 5 antisemitic graffiti at Stafford High during her open remarks at Tuesday's board meeting.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/05/2026

🧵1/ Three members of the Davis family addressed the Stafford County School Board Tuesday on the May 5 antisemitic graffiti at Stafford High: Alfonso L. Davis Sr., Dr. Pilar Davis, and Alfonso Davis.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/05/2026

🧵1/ Stafford Superintendent Dr. Daniel W. Smith addressed the May 5 antisemitic graffiti at Stafford High at Tuesday's board meeting. He named antisemitism. He spoke to Jewish students and families directly.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/05/2026

🧵1/ March 9, 2026: ADL, JCRC of Greater Washington, and AJC publicly named Stafford School Board Chair Dr. Elizabeth Warner for trafficking in textbook antisemitic tropes. Two months later. No retraction. No apology. No response.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 11/05/2026

Three Stafford County Supervisors have now publicly addressed the antisemitic graffiti at Stafford HS: Maya Guy, Darrell English, Crystal Vanuch. The School Board, as a body and as individuals, has said nothing. Showing up shouldn’t be remarkable. It’s still rare enough to be worth naming. 🙏

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 11/05/2026

Stafford Supervisor Maya Guy is the only sitting BOS member to publicly address the antisemitic graffiti at Stafford HS. She named it. She named Jewish American Heritage Month. She told Jewish students they are seen. Showing up shouldn't be remarkable. Right now, it is. Thank you, Supervisor Guy.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 10/05/2026

Abe Foxman is gone. Three years ago at a Jewish American Heritage Month event, I got to meet him. A hidden child of the Shoah who spent six decades refusing to look away from antisemitism. Left, right, or center. The line he held is ours to hold now. זיכרונו לברכה

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 09/05/2026

🧵 1/ This morning, the @stafforddems.bsky.social voted to condemn the antisemitic and white supremacist graffiti found at Stafford High School on May 5, and to reject all forms of antisemitism, including antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power, control, or influence.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 09/05/2026

That’s the face of a man who just realized the toilet paper roll was empty after he sat down. 🤣

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 08/05/2026

8/ A bathroom wall named what was on it. The adults responsible for that school still haven’t.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 08/05/2026

🧵 1/ Students at Stafford High School walked into a bathroom this week and saw swastikas, “Kill the Jews,” Hitler’s birthday written out as a date, and a school shooting threat dated May 20. They also saw a verse from a Wehrmacht marching song. Written in German.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 04/04/2026

Mark Moran's response to "You taking jew money?" was "No." Not "that's antisemitic." Just "No." Then he said he won't take "Arab money" either. Jewish and Arab Americans aren't Americans to him. Just foreign interests. He named his campaign car "The Transparency Machine." On this, he's delivered.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 03/04/2026

Yesterday, Mark Moran announced his Virginia Senate campaign as an independent. Yesterday, an account called Weimerica asked him if he was taking "jew money." Same day. He said, "No." Not "that's antisemitic." Not "get lost." Just "No." Weimerica got the candidate it wanted.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 17/03/2026

You can oppose this war without a white nationalist finishing your sentences. Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul chose not to. He went with the version about Jewish power pulling strings behind the scenes that’s been used to target Jews for centuries. He keeps finding what he’s looking for.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 13/03/2026

🧵1/ Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul spent this week calling for “a reckoning on Zionism,” the belief held by most American Jews that Jews deserve a homeland. A synagogue was attacked in Michigan yesterday. That same day, he said he was heartbroken.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/12/2025

Almost a year to the day, I was in NY with my friend Arsen. Today, he’s alive by luck alone. A bullet grazed his head at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. His family was there. This isn’t abstract. Violence doesn’t come out of nowhere. Silence doesn’t keep the peace. It decides who gets hurt.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 11/12/2025

Virginia’s JCRCs are sounding the alarm, and we should listen. Leaders, especially those shaping our schools, have a responsibility to lower the temperature, not fuel hate. Our Commonwealth deserves better.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 09/11/2025

3/ The stone says “O LORD NOT HAVE BEEN IN VAIN” with 459 names carved underneath. Each one representing thousands more. They weren’t statistics. They had favorite songs. Plans for Tuesday. People they loved who were waiting for them to come home.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 09/11/2025

2/ Tal, JCFR’s community shlicha, spoke. And Alex Perelman got up and told us about his grandfather Mendel — what he survived, what he carried for the rest of his life. Trauma that doesn’t heal, just gets carried forward. That’s what intergenerational memory looks like in real time.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 05/11/2025

The moment it became official. Virginia’s first woman governor. History in real time. 🇺🇸 @abigailspanberger.com

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 05/11/2025

Tonight, Virginia made history. @abigailspanberger.com: Our FIRST woman governor. @senatorhashmi.bsky.social: America’s FIRST Muslim woman in statewide office. Jones: Our FIRST Black Attorney General. Three trailblazers. One message: THIS is what the future looks like.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 30/10/2025

Tonight was everything. @noatishby.bsky.social came to Richmond, and the turnout was incredible. The conversation was powerful. The connection was real. And the room was packed with people who care deeply about what comes next. Thank you to Jewish Federation of Richmond for making it happen.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 18/10/2025

I just finished Eli Sharabi’s “Hostage” and I can’t stop thinking about it. A husband and father, dragged from his home. His family killed. 491 days starving in tunnels. Yet he became a protector to younger captives, finding light in total darkness. Read this book. Please.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 13/10/2025

Rom Braslavski watching the sunset over Tel Aviv—free, home, alive. After years in the dark, he’s standing in the light again. Od lo avda tikvatenu—our hope is not lost. 🌅🇮🇱

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 13/10/2025

No one forgot Noa Argamani—screaming, reaching for Avinatan as Hamas dragged her away on that motorcycle. That video stayed burned in our minds. Today, they’re together again. Holding each other. Breathing again. Love survived 738 days of hell. ❤️‍🩹

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 13/10/2025

You can’t fake joy like this. After more than 700 days in Hamas captivity, Omri Miran is finally home, playing on the floor with his daughters, Roni and Alma. Evil took years from them. Love gave them this moment back.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 13/10/2025

Confronted with facts, Virginia Del. Sam Rasoul didn’t correct himself. He said “Paid by Israel.” It’s a textbook case of twisting evidence to keep the same villain. Hard to believe this is the person setting standards for truth in Virginia classrooms. (thread ⬇️)

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 12/10/2025

1/ There’s finally a ceasefire. Hostages are being released. People are taking their first real breath in years. And Virginia Del. Sam Rasoul decides this is the moment to post a tribute to a Hamas influencer… and blame his death on “Zionism.” Unreal.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 25/09/2025

Calling campus antisemitism “preposterous” ignores how institutional failure works. When the alarm goes off, you find the fire—you don’t disconnect the wiring.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 23/09/2025

The shofar calls us to wake up, bread in water calls us to let go. For thousands of years, Jews have chosen renewal in the darkest times. With antisemitism rising, choosing to celebrate feels like victory. Hope is a choice. We’re choosing it. L’shanah tovah.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/09/2025

🧵1/ In her JCRC of Greater Washington Virginia Jewish Voter Guide responses, Sen. @senatorhashmi.bsky.social laid out what real leadership on antisemitism looks like. This progression floored me. 👇

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/09/2025

First day of early voting in VA and it’s BUZZING after our kickoff with Jay Jones in Norfolk! Shoutout to my favorite staffer Emily—she's CRUSHING IT for @abigailspanberger.com, @senatorhashmi.bsky.social & Jones. VOTE EARLY. The democracy you save might be your own. 🗳️ iwillvote.com?state=VA

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/09/2025

8/ Ran, 48, died protecting others in the bar area. In a cruel twist of fate, his decision to attend the festival instead of family Shabbat dinner meant his ex-wife and children stayed at relatives’ house, and weren’t home when Hamas attacked their kibbutz.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/09/2025

7/ Dor was executed in the parking lot, shot in the back of the head while trying to reach his car.

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Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/09/2025

6/ They escaped in a tiny car, driving through fields for 45 minutes while being shot at. They passed multiple checkpoints and witnessed the chaos and carnage of that morning—bodies, abandoned cars, pillars of smoke. Of the 54 people Shye photographed that day, 52 survived. Two did not.

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