As Emily Schrader approached the podium to open the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces Ohio chapter’s annual dinner, she emphasized that the guests were gathered inside the ballroom at Beechmont Country Club in Orange during “a turning point in Jewish history.” Close

PHOTOS: Journalist, activist discusses war at FIDF Ohio chapter event

“This is a moment defined by two powerful yet opposing realities,” Schrader, who emceed the event and who is an American-Israeli journalist and human rights activist, told the capacity crowd of 300 on Oct. 29.

“On one hand, relief. After two long and harrowing years, Israel now stands at the dawn of a new era. A hard-won peace…On the other hand, Israel faces unprecedented danger. A world brainwashed by Hamas lies where terrorists who rape, torture a

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