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Oct 30, 2025

Op-ed: Sixty years since Nostra Aetate: The Catholic-Jewish Journey

My grandmother grew up in Catholic neighborhoods with rampant (and sometimes violent) antisemitism.

 

My parents came of age understanding that individual Catholics might relate to Jews in different ways. I have never experienced anything but respect and kindness from Catholic friends and…

Oct 30, 2025

Op-Ed: From ‘Surge’ to strength: Rebuilding community connection to Israel

by Mimi Kravetz and Anna Langer

For two years, the unspeakable atrocities of the Oct. 7 attacks and the events that followed upended Jewish life around the world. The focal point of this reorientation has been Israel — its people, its land, its pain and its wars.

 

In Israel, every day since has felt like Oct. 7, 202…

Oct 29, 2025

Federations' Letter to Congress: Act Now to Avoid SNAP Disaster

With less than two days before the federal government shutdown cuts off SNAP benefits, Jewish Federations of North America issued an urgent letter to Congressional leaders late Wednesday, warning of the imminent lapse in the nation’s largest food assistance program — a lifeline for 42 …

Oct 29, 2025

JI: Jewish leaders, tech experts hopeful, but realistic about TikTok deal

As a deal to split off TikTok’s U.S. business is set to be finalized between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, antisemitism experts expressed mixed views over how likely the agreement will be in transforming the social media platform’s approach when it …

Oct 29, 2025

Jewish organizations are responding to the looming SNAP deadline

Soon after the government shutdown began on Oct. 1, the Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Long Beach and Orange County (Calif.) realized that funding for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, would run out by the end of the month. Knowi…