REMARKS
Council Member Tiffany Cabán praises Rabbi Joshua Rabin and discusses community initiatives
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Council Member Tiffany Cabán delivers remarks praising Rabbi Joshua Rabin of the Astoria Center of Israel, highlighting his community involvement and efforts in combating antisemitism. She emphasizes the importance of interfaith relationships and the fight against hate in all forms.
- Cabán describes Rabbi Josh's role in fostering safer and healthier neighborhoods through interfaith conversations and his work with Live On New York.
- She discusses the threat of antisemitism and its connection to other forms of discrimination and hate.
- Cabán expresses gratitude for Rabbi Josh's leadership and makes a motion to spread the invocation in full upon the record.
Tiffany Cabán
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Rabbi Josh.
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Rabbi Joshua Rabin serves as rabbi for the Jewish community at the Astoria Center of Israel in Astoria, Queens.
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Myself and my constituents of all faiths are blessed to have a community leader like rabbi Josh.
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His care extends well beyond his congregation.
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Rabbi Josh is part of interfaith conversations, building relationships across our community to foster safer and healthier neighborhoods.
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Rabbi Josh is a community and government affairs liaison at Live On New York, a nonprofit organization committed to helping New York live on through organ and tissue donation and to caring for families touched by donation.
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Through his work as a a rabbi and with Live On New York, Rabbi Josh keeps our community spiritually and physically healthy.
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It has also been an honor to work alongside Rabbi Josh in our district's initiatives on resisting antisemitism and hate violence.
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Antisemitism poses a serious danger to our beloved Jewish neighbors and friends, whether it's the graffiti swastikas Queens has unfortunately seen in recent years or a white nationalist imitating Nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration and spouting antisemitic conspiracy theories.
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We must never tolerate incitement of violence, particularly against a community that has faced brutality and terror for centuries centuries all over the world.
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And antisemitism is a threat to all of us who identify as part of a marginalized community.
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Anti Semitic conspiracy theories form a shared conceptual framework for all types of racist, sexist, queerphobic, paranoia, and hate.
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And rabbi Josh is a faith leader who understands this and takes it seriously, leading the Jewish community and looking out for historians of all faiths, including our district's diverse Muslim community.
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Soria is lucky to have rabbi Josh leading us through these times, and I am committed to standing by his side and supporting him along the way.
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I'm honored to know and work alongside rabbi Josh and am grateful for his words of wisdom to ground us in the new year.
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Thank you.
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And madam speaker and majority leader leader Farias, thank you as well.
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I make a motion to spread the invocation in full upon the record.