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The Real Threat to the Jewish People - Not What You Think

1.9K views · Apr 28, 2026

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

A discussion on the internal challenges facing the Jewish people today.

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17 minutes, that's cute. They must not know how far Boca is from Bal Harbour. 17 minutes. In the old days, maybe. But they moved Bal Harbour further away from Boca. Used to take 40 minutes, now it takes like an hour and a half. Rabbi Berg, thank you for your exceedingly kind words. Rabbi Berg is an old and dear friend and in many ways a mentor. To watch him talk about Never Enough move the Jewish people everywhere he goes, together of course with his family, to care so deeply for the Jewish people. I'm really honored and grateful to have this opportunity. Rabbi May, so many friends in this room for so long and people that I admire, I've learned from, and nobody more than all of you. The people who are not professionals and are not obligated and took time out of your busy schedule and made it a priority and set aside the resources to be here and to be devoted and to care about and to be in a conversation about Klal Yisrael in what for my lifetime is the most critical juncture to be having this conversation. With so many enemies from without, with so many threats that we face, with so many concerns, there's never been a more important time for all of us to shift our focus to the Jewish people and to our future. And that's what I want to talk about in my limited time with you. Klal Yisrael, caring about Klal Yisrael. What does it mean to care about Klal Yisrael? I saw one of the modules, one of the incredible tools that's being provided and hosted by Aish about anti-Semitism. And that's the catchword, it's the keyword, it's the word of our age, unfortunately, tragically, it seems of our generation, as anti-Semitism is

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  1. 0:0517 minutes, that's cute. They must not know how far Boca is from Bal Harbour. 17
  2. 2:13I think we should applaud him and be grateful to him. But if you had the
  3. 4:49ambassadors to represent the Kadosh Baruchu, to take achrayus, to take responsibility for this world and
  4. 7:25repair this world. Anti-Semitism and assimilation are not only both rising dangerous threats but our response
  5. 10:06Torah and mitzvahs of their own legacy so it can become their destiny. Tell you an
  6. 12:45What difference can I make? How can I make this world a better place? Who can
  7. 14:49I would be talking to the Jewish people, a small fraction of that larger group, but
  8. 17:25What are the wonders of Jewish I I I don't know. But those excuses have all
  9. 19:57limb to go march into the king. She understood her moment. She embraced her place. And
  10. 23:13So if I had 30 seconds and I could put up a commercial, it would tell

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