Jewish Frontline

Strong leadership deserves to be recognized.

Jewish Frontline is proud to publicly commend Principal Ché Carter of Huron High School for his thoughtful, responsive, and student-centered leadership in addressing recent incidents that impacted members of the Jewish student community.

Navigating issues involving identity, culture, and political expression in schools is complex. Principal Carter demonstrated what responsible educational leadership looks like by listening to students and families, facilitating restorative dialogue, guiding staff toward clear and appropriate boundaries, and taking proactive steps to support a respectful learning environment moving forward.

We also recognize his commitment to continued professional learning, including participation in specialized training focused on understanding antisemitism and its historical context. Leadership that prioritizes education, empathy, and accountability helps ensure that all students feel safe, respected, and able to fully participate in their school community.

Too often, school leaders are only publicly discussed when something goes wrong. We believe it is equally important to recognize when leaders step forward with integrity, care, and courage during difficult moments.

Jewish Frontline is honored to acknowledge the collaborative efforts taking place at Huron High School and remains committed to supporting safe and respectful learning environments for all students.

As I was putting the flags back into my truck after this week’s walk, something unexpected happened. A woman came out of a house I’ve parked in front of every week for the last two years. The house was covered in Christmas decorations. She asked if I wanted to come inside for a cup of hot cocoa.

I politely declined, telling her I had coffee waiting at home. But then she said something that stayed with me.

She told me she isn’t Jewish, but she deeply supports what we are doing. She said she sees the group gathering there each week and wanted me to know that if we ever need anything, her home is a friendly one.
It was a powerful reminder that even when Jewish visibility can feel heavy, we are never truly standing alone. Allies are drawn to a people who are willing to stand proudly for themselves.

Zionism is not only Jewish self-determination in our ancestral homeland. It is Jewish agency over our future wherever Jews live. We may live in the Diaspora, but we are no longer a people defined by exile. We are a sovereign people, and sovereignty is not just political — it is psychological, cultural, and spiritual. It is something we carry, something we model, and something we pass to our children.

Jewish identity has never survived through convenience. It survived because generation after generation refused to sever themselves from the traditions, texts, and shared memory that carried us across centuries. The moment we begin separating parts of that identity from one another, we weaken the very continuity that sustained us.

Engaging with Judaism is not about perfection or performance. It is about participation in the ongoing Jewish story — a story that is still unfolding, and one that demands Jewish confidence, Jewish continuity, and Jewish responsibility.

AM YISRAEL CHAI!! 🇺🇸 🇮🇱

For generations, Holocaust education has been one of the most powerful tools we have to confront antisemitism, preserve Jewish memory, and teach where hatred and dehumanization ultimately lead. But today, as Holocaust distortion and antisemitism continue to rise, ensuring young people encounter this history in meaningful, direct ways is more urgent than ever.

Jewish Frontline is stepping in to help support a local 9th grade interdisciplinary Holocaust education experience at the Zekelman Holocaust Center. This is not just a field trip. Students engage with survivor testimony, primary historical evidence, and guided reflection that challenges them to confront propaganda, identity-based hatred, and the consequences of silence and indifference.

Programs like this shape how the next generation understands Jewish history, antisemitism, and moral responsibility. When students physically walk through these exhibits, the Holocaust stops being an abstract chapter in a textbook and becomes a human story that demands accountability, remembrance, and vigilance.

Jewish Frontline believes protecting Jewish continuity requires proactive education, community leadership, and refusing to allow Jewish history to be minimized, erased, or distorted. Supporting this program is part of our broader mission to ensure Jewish voices, Jewish memory, and Jewish truth remain strong and visible.

We are fundraising to help keep this experience accessible to every student, regardless of financial barriers.

If you believe Holocaust education matters…
If you believe combating antisemitism starts with education…
If you believe Jewish history must never be forgotten…

Please consider donating and sharing this campaign.
🔗https://jewishfrontline.org/support-holocaust-education-for-local-students-2/

We are excited to introduce a new educational tool from Jewish Frontline.

Introducing Milulah Hebrew Story Maker.

Milulah is a free interactive app that allows children to create their own Hebrew storybooks while naturally building vocabulary, pronunciation, and reading confidence through creativity and storytelling. By turning learning into imagination and play, Hebrew becomes something children experience, not just study.

Milulah is now available through the Jewish Frontline Resource Library and works best on tablets and mobile devices, making it accessible for both classrooms and home learning.

You can access Milulah for free here:
https://jewishfrontline.org/resource-library/

Jewish continuity is built through connection, education, and identity. Milulah is one small but meaningful step in helping plant those roots for the next generation. Please share with families, educators, and anyone passionate about strengthening Jewish learning.

Not because trees suddenly appear today, but because this is when something invisible begins.

In the Land of Israel, Tu BiShvat marks the moment when the winter rains have done their work and new sap begins to rise. What will only be visible months from now—fruit, shade, harvest—starts here, quietly, beneath the surface.

The Torah gives trees a calendar because Jewish life is rooted in the land’s reality. This date mattered for tithes, for planting, for knowing what belongs to which year—but more than that, it reflects how closely our tradition is tied to this place. The land sets the clock. We listen.

Even in exile, we kept this timing. We marked a new year for trees that many of us could no longer touch, because memory does not break when distance is forced upon it. We carried the seasons of Eretz Yisrael with us.

Tu BiShvat teaches us that growth is not always loud. That continuity often begins unseen. That a people, like a tree, can be cut back, scattered, even displaced—and still send life upward when the time is right.

We are not visitors to this land. We grew with it.

Our roots know its seasons.

Chag Tu BiShvat Sameach.
Am Yisrael Chai!! 🌳✡️

Not as a metaphor.

Not as a political weapon.
And not as a way to flatten history into slogans.

The Holocaust must be remembered for what it was — as it was.

In recent years, memory has been distorted. Words lose their meaning. “Nazi” becomes a label for anyone we oppose. Hitler becomes shorthand instead of history. Denial, exaggeration, and casual comparisons coexist until the Holocaust is both invoked constantly and understood less and less.

People ask, “How could this have happened?”
They say, “I would never.”
“I’d be the one who resisted.”

But history suggests something more uncomfortable: most people don’t fail because they are evil. They fail because they give up agency — to fear, to comfort, to institutions, to the belief that someone else will act first.

Holocaust Remembrance Day isn’t only about mourning. It’s about confronting what happens when Jews — and societies — stop seeing themselves as active participants in history and start seeing themselves as passengers.

There’s a moment in today’s Torah portion that captures this. The Jews have just left Egypt. In front of them is the sea. Behind them is the Egyptian army. The people argue about what to do — surrender, pray, fight, or give up entirely. None of those answers move them forward.

God’s response to Moshe is simple: go forward. Only once they step into the water does the sea split.

The Jewish story did not end in Europe. It did not end in 1945. And it is not finished now.

Holocaust remembrance is not meant to paralyze us with fear or turn us into caretakers of tragedy. It is meant to remind us that Jewish survival has always depended on agency — on refusing to disappear, refuse responsibility, or outsource our future.

The Jewish story is still being written.

So don’t wait for authority.
Don’t look for permission.
Don’t wait for perfect language, perfect timing, or perfect plans.

If you see something in your community that needs to be addressed, roll up your sleeves and get to it.

It doesn’t have to be perfect.
It doesn’t even have to be right.
But it does have to start.

That is what taking agency looks like.
That is how a people survives.
That is how the Jewish story continues.

This week we walked in solidarity with the Jewish community of Australia, holding the faces of those whose lives were stolen simply for being Jewish.

Antisemitism does not stay contained to one country, one city, or one moment in time.

When Jews are attacked anywhere, Jews respond everywhere — not with fear, but with presence.

We walk to remember.
We walk to be seen.
We walk because silence has never protected us.

Join us for the next Walk the Frontline:
🗓 Sunday, December 28
🕘 9:00 AM
📍 Scotia Park, Huntington Woods

All are welcome. Come walk with us.

AM YISRAEL CHAI!! 🇺🇸 🇮🇱

December 2025

Jewish Frontline is responding to a recent post by The People’s Coalition that claims solidarity with the Jewish community while simultaneously promoting imagery and rhetoric tied to movements that have called to “globalize the intifada” and deny Jewish peoplehood and self-determination.

This is not solidarity. It is a contradiction.

The use of “We Resist” language and watermelon imagery—widely recognized symbols of contemporary Antizionist activism—alongside messages of support for Jews is inherently inconsistent. These symbols are not neutral or abstract. They are part of an active political movement that, over the past two years, has framed Jewish self-determination as illegitimate and has contributed to a climate of hostility toward Jews in public, academic, and civic spaces.

Antizionism is not merely a critique of Israeli policy. It is a global political movement in its own right—one that uniquely denies the Jewish people the right afforded to all others: the right to self-determination. In practice, Antizionism consistently manifests as antisemitism, collapsing Jewish identity, history, and collective rights into something to be resisted, erased, or dismantled.

Invoking Jewish suffering or Jewish symbols while advancing movements that deny Jewish legitimacy or normalize violent “resistance” undermines any claim of genuine allyship. It is performative solidarity paired with ideological hostility.

If solidarity with Jews is sincere, it requires moral clarity and consistency. That means rejecting calls to globalize the intifada, rejecting movements that deny Jewish self-determination, and refusing to normalize rhetoric that has contributed to a climate in which Jews are increasingly targeted and made to feel unsafe.

Jewish Frontline will continue to stand visibly, unapologetically, and firmly for Jewish dignity, safety, and continuity. We will name antisemitism when we see it, even when doing so is uncomfortable or politically inconvenient.

Am Yisrael Chai.

Every week, we show up.
Not in anger, not in fear — but in presence, in pride, and in unity.

When we walk together through our neighborhoods, we send a message that cannot be ignored:
Jewish visibility is not optional. Jewish belonging is not negotiable. Jewish community is here to stay.

A huge thank-you, as always, to the Huntington Woods Police Department for keeping an eye on our route and ensuring our community can walk safely and confidently. Your support is noticed and deeply appreciated.

To everyone who comes out — in the cold, the rain, the snow — thank you for being the strength of this movement.
If you haven’t joined a walk yet, this is your invitation. Come take part, meet your neighbors, and help build a Jewish Michigan that stands tall.

AM YISRAEL CHAI!! 🇺🇸 🇮🇱

NEXT WALK:
📅 Sunday, December 14th
⏰ 9:00 AM
📍 Scotia Park (Huntington Woods)

See you there.

Jewish Frontline is proud to welcome the Shomrim Marksmanship Association (SMA) as the newest member of our growing coalition of grassroots organizations strengthening Jewish Michigan.

SMA is a Jewish-led training and community empowerment organization focused on building confidence, competence, and personal readiness among Jews across Michigan.
Their mission centers on teaching practical safety skills, promoting responsible marksmanship, and fostering a culture of self-reliance and preparedness rooted in Jewish pride — not fear.

In a moment where Jewish communities are reclaiming their voice and agency, SMA stands out as a bold, unapologetic force dedicated to equipping everyday Jews with the knowledge, mindset, and tools to protect themselves and their communities.

Together, we stand behind a clear message:

Proud. Prepared. Unapologetically Jewish.

This partnership will include:
🔹 Collaborative community programming
🔹 Cross-promotion of events and educational initiatives
🔹 Shared outreach across Jewish communities throughout Michigan
🔹 A united commitment to building strong, resilient Jewish neighborhoods

As our coalition grows, so does our collective ability to uplift, empower, and protect Jewish life across the state. Jewish strength is built from the ground up — by real people, real action, and real partnership.

We are proud to stand alongside SMA in this work.

Welcome to the coalition, SMA.
AM YISRAEL CHAI!!