Gabriel Groisman

Mayor of Bal Harbour, Florida

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Aug 14, 2018, 6:26 PM

Lauder’s NY Times Op-Ed Misrepresents World Jewry

Ronald Lauder saw it fit to publish an opinion piece in the NY Times about what he believes is wrong with Israel today and how he believes Diaspora Jewry is being affected by internal Israeli policy decisions. Lauder’s position...

Jul 10, 2016, 1:55 PM

Visiting the Home of Hallel Yaffe Ariel z”l

Last Thursday night, while I was flying over the Atlantic to join up with my wife and kids for another summer vacation in Jerusalem, a beautiful and innocent 13-year-old girl was sleeping in her home in Kiryat Arba, just...

May 11, 2016, 4:19 PM

A Call to Diaspora Jewry on This Israel Independence Day

As the people of Israel, begin to gather their flags, and start to prepare their barbecues to celebrate this 68th anniversary of the re-establishment of the State of Israel, we, the Jews of the Diaspora, should take a moment...

Apr 12, 2016, 5:33 PM

Talking BDS to a Polish Politician

A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to travel to Poland with a group of 25 friends to visit the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. After four days of moving from horror to horror, I was given...

Mar 4, 2015, 10:10 AM

Witnessing History First Hand: Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress

Standing in line outside the Rayburn Building in Washington DC at 9 in the morning, waiting in the frigid cold with my wife to go inside to see Prime Minister Netanyahu address a joint session of Congress, I hadn’t fully grasped...

Jul 1, 2014, 10:59 AM

Just as we break a glass at the end of a Jewish wedding to commemorate the destruction of the Temple, last night the glass laying near our collective foot was crushed. Last night we found that, despite our prayers and...

May 13, 2014, 3:01 PM

Independence Day Reflections

Although people in Jerusalem have begun to take down the small flags flying from their car windows, the remnants of Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut are still a palpable part of our days here in Israel. Much has been...

Mar 31, 2014, 3:10 PM

A Shabbat morning moment

Shabbat baboker, yom yafe. Ima shota amon cafe. Aba kore amon iton, amon iton. (Click here to listen.) After 9 months living in Israel, it's easy to get distracted by the natural beauty that this country has to offer. But,...

Feb 11, 2014, 11:48 AM

The North: Zionism and Nimrod z”lb

This past weekend, I was lucky enough to have given in to my wife’s pleas to go to the North for the weekend with our 3 girls. I wasn’t too excited about the long drive from Jerusalem, but what...

Jan 5, 2014, 4:26 PM

Jerusalem’s top eats

Let’s face it. One of the best things about being in Israel is the food. Particularly if you keep kosher, coming to Israel is the experience of a lifetime - good kosher food everywhere you go. On my first...

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About Me

Gabe Groisman is the Mayor of Bal Harbour, Florida, and an attorney at Groisman Law, PLLC (www.groismanlaw.com). Mayor Groisman passed the nation's first municipal anti-BDS law, and the first codification of a uniform definition of anti-Semitism. He is a sought after public speaker on the topics of anti-Semitism, Jewish identity and pride, and combating BDS. Mayor Groisman is also an analyst on the Middle-East on various Spanish language TV networks.

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