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I am a retired social worker. I spent most of my career working with Holocaust survivors at a Jewish social service agency. When I arrived for my first day of work, I found a small plastic doll in my mailbox. The doll had a little cloth kerchief on her head. Her eyes were blackened and red nail polish marred her face and limbs. The doll belonged to a client I was about to meet. She wanted me to have it so that I would have some knowledge of her pain.

This doll was just a symbol, of course, of the profound violations this client had suffered in the concentration camps. Had there been a state of Israel in 1940, her life might have had a vastly different trajectory. I probably would never have met this client. I would never have encountered that chilling doll. Never.

To the anti-Israel campus protesters, I would like to say: Be mindful of the words never again when you shout, From the river to the sea. Be mindful of never again when you advocate for an end to Zionism, or when you effectively align with terrorists who exist to obliterate Israel, or when you ignore the complexities of this war, or when you fail to acknowledge a people who need to have a homeland to feel safe in the world.

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A memorial to commemorate those who rescued Jews in France during the Holocaust was defaced with red hands in an act of vandalism described as unspeakable by the Paris mayor.

The Wall of the Righteous was vandalized overnight between Monday and Tuesday, along with around 10 other locations in the Marais, Paris's historically Jewish neighbourhood.

The wall bears the names of over 3,900 people who risked their lives to help save Jews in France during the countrys Nazi occupation in World War Two.

May 14 is the anniversary of the first major round-up of Jews by French police in 1941.

A picture shows red hand graffitis painted on a wall of the Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie street, in the area where earlier the Holocaust memorial was vandalized with the same red hand prints in Paris, on May 14, 2024. (Photo by ANTONIN UTZ/AFP via Getty Images)

The UKs Holocaust Educational Trust said they were shocked and saddened to see the antisemitic vandalism of the Shoah memorial in Paris with blood red hands on the Wall of the Righteous.

This is a disgraceful act of hate, ignorance and disrespect. It is an abuse of the memory of the 6 million Jewish victims and also the righteous, who risked everything to save Jewish lives.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo reported the graffiti to prosecutors as a possible antisemitism.

Hidalgo said, No cause can justify such degradations that dirty the memory of the victims of the Shoah and of the Righteous who saved Jews at risk to their lives.

(Photo by ANTONIN UTZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Ariel Weil, the mayor of Paris central districts, posted photos of the damage on social media and said, On the very day of the anniversary of this event which prefigures the Vel'd'Hiv roundup where many children were arrested before being exterminated, the walls of the Marais in front of nurseries and schools were defiled.

Other spots daubed with the red hands overnight included schools and nurseries around the Marais.

Workers arrived at the scene to remove the graffiti by late Tuesday morning.

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A University of Delaware undergraduate student has been charged with a hate crime after witnesses reported her for vandalizing a Holocaust memorial on the universitys campus last Wednesday.

The Delaware Department of Justice has charged Jenna Kandeel, 23, with a hate crime, criminal mischief, and disorderly conduct all misdemeanors for damaging several flags, which were put up by the University of Delaware Hillel for Holocaust Remembrance Week.

University leaders said Kandeel was also yelling hateful antisemitic slurs during the episode.

In a statement, Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings emphasized the countrys history of protecting free speech and political dissent.

But we need to be lucid enough to recognize the daylight miles of it, in this case between protest and hate, she said, calling the episode a wake-up call in an increasingly antisemitic climate.

University police quickly arrested Kandeel and she admitted being responsible for the vandalism, according to the Justice Department.

University leadership said Kandeels actions violated the schools student code of conduct and non-discrimination policy. She has been banned from campus.

Donna Schwartz, executive director of the Hillel at the University of Delaware, called the intentional destruction of the display honoring the millions killed in the Holocaust unacceptable.

We appreciate the university administrations swift response to address this incident and the clear message that hatred will not be tolerated at the University of Delaware, said Schwartz.

READ MORE: A University of Delaware professors office was vandalized with a swastika, bringing the campus into the throes of far-right hate

The damage to the Holocaust display comes almost a year after someone defaced a poster promoting a drag show with a swastika, shaking Jewish and queer communities on campus. That vandalism occurred during a time when antisemitic acts were on the rise as pandemic restrictions eased.

The Israel-Hamas war has led to a surge in antisemitic and anti-Muslim acts across the country, according to organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and Council on American-Islamic Relations. These acts have ranged from vandalism, to the use of ethnic slurs, and assaults.

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After months of tumult on the campus of Harvard University following the Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the university's reaction, a holocaust survivor visited a Jewish organization at the prestigious school on Thursday. Karmela Waldman visited Harvard Chabad for a fireside chat comparing the history of the Holocaust to present-day antisemitism and recent incidents. Waldman was joined by her son, author and podcaster Joel Waldman, who recently published a book about his family's experience. The mother and son are on a book tour. Karmela Waldman survived the Holocaust in what was then Yugoslavia. Her mother and grandmother also survived, but her father and grandfather were killed at Auschwitz. "My mother took me through a hole in the fence," Karmela Waldman said. "They came to take us to the trains to take us to Auschwitz." Her mother asked a non-Jewish doctor for help, and he brought her to a Catholic nun at a boy's school. "He walked over there and asked them if they would take a Jewish child, a 5-year-old girl," she said. "She had to pretend to be a little Catholic boy, basically," Joel Waldman said. She remains upbeat despite all that she has endured. "I cannot help it, I'm an optimist," she said."My mom's not only a Holocaust survivor. She also lost her child during the writing of this book and was in the process of losing my father," Joel Waldman said. Earlier this week, pro-Palestinian protesters voluntarily cleared their encampment in Harvard Yard on Tuesday after university officials agreed to discuss their questions about the endowment, bringing a peaceful end to the kinds of demonstrations that were broken up by police on other campuses.University officials had suspended the group, Harvard for Palestine, before the encampment was established. Former Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned in January in part because of intense criticism over Harvard's response to the Oct. 7 attack. At a Congressional hearing on Dec. 5, she and the leaders of other universities struggled to answer a question about whether calls for genocide against Jews would violate Harvards code of conduct.Gay later apologized for the poor wording in her testimony, as did University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, who also resigned.Gay was the first person of color and the first Black woman to serve as president of Americas oldest institution of higher learning but her tenure was the shortest presidency in the history of Harvard.Numerous pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protests have unfolded on the campus, sometimes simultaneously, since October."The best way to resolve it is through dialogue, through understanding, through patience and I'm sorry to say this as a cliche or not cliche through love," said Karmela Waldman."This story is about non-Jews saving a little Jewish girl. We need to get the world back on track," her son said.

After months of tumult on the campus of Harvard University following the Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the university's reaction, a holocaust survivor visited a Jewish organization at the prestigious school on Thursday.

Karmela Waldman visited Harvard Chabad for a fireside chat comparing the history of the Holocaust to present-day antisemitism and recent incidents. Waldman was joined by her son, author and podcaster Joel Waldman, who recently published a book about his family's experience.

The mother and son are on a book tour.

Karmela Waldman survived the Holocaust in what was then Yugoslavia. Her mother and grandmother also survived, but her father and grandfather were killed at Auschwitz.

"My mother took me through a hole in the fence," Karmela Waldman said. "They came to take us to the trains to take us to Auschwitz."

Her mother asked a non-Jewish doctor for help, and he brought her to a Catholic nun at a boy's school.

"He walked over there and asked them if they would take a Jewish child, a 5-year-old girl," she said.

"She had to pretend to be a little Catholic boy, basically," Joel Waldman said.

She remains upbeat despite all that she has endured.

"I cannot help it, I'm an optimist," she said.

"My mom's not only a Holocaust survivor. She also lost her child during the writing of this book and was in the process of losing my father," Joel Waldman said.

Earlier this week, pro-Palestinian protesters voluntarily cleared their encampment in Harvard Yard on Tuesday after university officials agreed to discuss their questions about the endowment, bringing a peaceful end to the kinds of demonstrations that were broken up by police on other campuses.

University officials had suspended the group, Harvard for Palestine, before the encampment was established.

Former Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned in January in part because of intense criticism over Harvard's response to the Oct. 7 attack. At a Congressional hearing on Dec. 5, she and the leaders of other universities struggled to answer a question about whether calls for genocide against Jews would violate Harvards code of conduct.

Gay later apologized for the poor wording in her testimony, as did University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, who also resigned.

Gay was the first person of color and the first Black woman to serve as president of Americas oldest institution of higher learning but her tenure was the shortest presidency in the history of Harvard.

Numerous pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protests have unfolded on the campus, sometimes simultaneously, since October.

"The best way to resolve it is through dialogue, through understanding, through patience and I'm sorry to say this as a cliche or not cliche through love," said Karmela Waldman.

"This story is about non-Jews saving a little Jewish girl. We need to get the world back on track," her son said.

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Assemblywoman AmyPaulin, HHREC Executive Director Millie Jasper, and New Rochelle residents and Holocaust survivorsMr. and Mrs. Jerry and Ellen Kaidanow

Assemblywoman AmyPaulinpartnered with Assembly Members Chris Burdick, Dana Levenberg, Steve Otis, Gary Pretlow, Nader Sayegh, and MaryJane Shimsky to successfully secure$100,000from New York State for theHolocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC).

Given the alarming incidents of anti-Semitism that are happening in New York and around the country, its imperative that we support human rights education, saidAssemblywoman AmyPaulin. One of the lessons of the Holocaust is that we must act decisively when we see the Jewish people being scapegoated or attacked. Jews were attacked onOctober 7, and have been continually under attack via harassment and intimidation. We must combat this rise in anti-Semitism by supporting a constructive path to peace through education by organizations such as the HHREC. Im thrilled that we have been able to help fund the HHRECs programs so that they can continue their great work of education and awareness to ensure that atrocities such as those of the Holocaust never happen again.

HHREC is a nonprofit based in White Plains that serves schools, synagogues, colleges, churches and civic centers in Westchester and the Hudson Valley. The HHRECs mission is to enhance the teaching and learning of the lessons of the Holocaust and the right of all people to be treated with dignity and respect. HHREC works with teachers and students to help schools fulfill the New York State mandate that the Holocaust and other human rights violations be included in their curriculum. Since 1994, the HHREC has brought the lessons of the Holocaust, genocide and human rights violations to more than 3,000 teachers, and through them to thousands of students.

HHREC provides educational opportunities for students and educators, as well as community events such as the annual Westchester County Yom HaShoah (Day of Remembrance) Commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance, and Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) commemoration with Iona University. HHREC also has a Holocaust survivor speakers bureau which reaches over 50,000 students each year.

Millie Jasper, Executive Director, Holocaust & Human Rights Education Centersaid, Were grateful to the Assembly delegation for their strong commitment to arrest the rising tide of antisemitism and other forms of hate by offering funds to the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center so that we can continue to develop and present appropriate programming to the student and adult community.

Assemblymember Chris Burdicksaid, I am thrilled that we were able to provide the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) with funds that will help them to further their mission of ending bigotry and prejudice. The lessons of the Holocaust have never been more important as we face persistent ignorance, antisemitism, and hatred. Ive worked with HHREC and know the incredible work the organization does, not only in imparting lessons of the Holocaust but also in providing positive and uplifting teachings that stress the importance of treating all people with dignity and respect. HHREC is truly making a difference here in Westchester, particularly its focus on our youth, who will help to shape our future.

Assemblywoman Levenbergsaid, As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, I am acutely aware of the necessity of education about this chapter in history. While my mother is still with us, every day we lose more people from the generation that lived through the Holocaust. Now more than ever, with living memory of the Holocaust receding and antisemitism and Holocaust denialism surging, we need institutions like the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center to help ensure that we remember and do not repeat the mistakes of the past.

Assemblyman Steve Otissaid, The Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center provides outstanding programs vital to the understanding of history, humanity, and human rights. I was very pleased we could support this work in the state budget.

Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlowsaid, It is my hope that the funding granted to the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center will assist with the ongoing preservation of history as well as to provide new and valuable resources necessary to equip our society with the knowledge to combat hatred and prejudice and provide teachings to encourage empathy, tolerance and acceptance.

As a lifelong educator, it is imperative that we support initiatives to teach our youth about human rights abuses, saidState Assemblyman Nader Sayegh. It is now more important than ever to address the growing polarization and tension that exists in our communities, nation, and world because of misinformation, misunderstanding, and unfortunately hate. We will continue to work diligently for respect of diversity and making knowledge available to all.

Assemblywoman MaryJane Shimskysaid I am grateful that we were able to secure this funding for HHREC and its educational mission. The Holocaust survivors from their Speakers Bureau spent years recounting and recording their painful stories so that future generations will learn from the past and stand strong in defense of humankind. Nearly 80 years after the Nazi camps were liberated, the invaluable work of HHREC remains all too urgent and necessary in our worldtoday.

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Communities across the U.S. are remembering the atrocities of one of the worst acts of genocide in modern history for Holocaust Remembrance Day. But for the Jewish Family and Children's Services Holocaust Center in San Francisco, teaching the history of those events is what they do everyday.

"Each one of these gray boxes holds a story. One family's life, one story of perpetration of dehumanization, but also stories of survival and stories of hope and resilience," said Morgan Blum Schneider Director of the Jewish Family and Children's Services Holocaust Center.

The JFCS Holocaust Center is dedicated to learning, educating, researching and remembering the horrors of the Holocaust.

Inside each gray box are impeccably preserved artifacts keeping the history of the millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust alive today.

"This is a Star of David that the Jews in the Netherlands had to wear sewn onto their clothing," Blum Schneider showed ABC7 News. "Every child over the age of five had to have a star affixed to their jacket."

Blum Schneider and her colleagues use these items to help teachers teach and students learn about the Holocaust - reaching more than 100,000 people in schools each year.

Sharing these personal stories of persecution and survival is so important as the world marks nearly 80 years since the end of World War II.

"Our Holocaust survivor generation is sunsetting. We are on the horizon of a time when first hand witnesses of the Holocaust will no longer be alive," said Blum Schneider.

The average age of Holocaust survivors is now upwards of 85-years-old.

But many of those survivors are not slowing down - sharing their stories of resilience in classrooms across California at a time when acts of antisemitism are on a drastic rise, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

"Holocaust education is anti-Semitism education," said Blum Schneider. "A truly dynamic curriculum includes survivor testimony. It includes primary source documents, it includes activities that really help the students investigate and build their critical thinking skills."

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In just over a fortnight, history will be made when the UKs first Orthodox female communal rabbi is ordained.

After four years of study, Miriam Lorie, 36, will be celebrating her graduation from New Yorks pioneering Yeshivat Maharat.

Lorie was appointed rabbi-in-training by Kehillat Nashira, a partnership minyan in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire and has been leading the community during her training. She will remain withthe community afterher graduation.

For several years, Maharat graduates have been assuming leadership roles in American communities, but it isthe first time aUK community has appointed someone from one of its programmes.

Lorie told the JC she was excited for the graduation ceremony, which will take place on June 5.

Americans know how to do a ceremony. There will be 400 people there, and it will be a bit like a wedding.

She said that growing up, becoming a rabbi was not something she thought was possible despite a career counsellor at her non-Jewish school telling her she should be a priest.

It is quite funny really. It was based off the fact that I said I liked working with people.I also love teaching and being with people atboth happy times and sad times, so I was building up to [becoming a rabbi] before I even knew it was a thing I could do.

Miriam Lorie (second from left) learning at Yeshivat Maharat in New York

While the Chief Rabbi and United Synagogue do not recognise women rabbis or accept partnership minyanim, Lorie hopes that will change in her lifetime.

They are not there yet, but I think we will see it in the future, she said. Individual rabbis say good things and are encouraging in private.

Since Kehillat Nashira, one of half a dozen partnership minyanim in the UK, started in 2013, tensions in the United Synagogue over the participation of women in services have eased. (In a partnership minyan, women are able to lead prayers, and, in some cases, read from the Torah.)

Kehillat Nashira meets in a hall for Shabbat services every month, alternating between Friday night and Saturday morning, as well as running educational and other events.

We have around 100 or so active members. It is a lovely and open community, and it is also intergenerational, which is great.

Miriam Lorie leading Kehillat Nashira, the partnership minyan in Borehamwood

Lorie, who has managed her training alongside having a family, said the reason more women are not leading communities in the Orthodox world is that the barriers are bigger.

You dont just get a job. You have to set up from scratch and fundraise and not everyone has the support to do that.

A Cambridge University theology graduate, Lorie grew up in the local Borehamwood and Elstree United Synagogue.

She saidthatOrthodox Judaism hadalways felt like my natural home, which waswhy she had wanted to practise within the setting.

People might say: Why not leave? But I love it, and I enjoy the commitment to Jewish law. I'd rather work from within it.

Lorie is also a keen interfaith advocate and was part of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme and the Woolf Institute, also in Cambridge, which specialises in relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims.

The hardest part of her study was the Jewish law, she said. Most of the learning is a rigorous discipline, which doesnt always reflect the reality of being a communal rabbi.

She paid tribute to past alumna Rabbi Dina Brawer, the first woman from the UK to graduate from Yeshivat Maharat four years ago.

Lorie said: She was a big inspiration to me. What is nice is that we all support each other, and there is a network of women rabbis from around the world.

Another graduate of Maharat is Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, who is a teaching fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies.

Lorie added: It has been an incredibly difficult time to be Jewish since October 7. For me, this feels like a step forward and a chance to celebrate being Jewish, show we are developing and that Jewish identity is thriving.

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Saturday Night Live got the rabbi!

This past weekend marked the 49th season finale of SNL hosted by Jake Gyllenhaal and the return of the Weekend Update joke swap. As the title suggests, in this segment Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che write each others jokes. The only catch is that neither is able to vet their jokes before reading them live on-air. Its a tradition that hails back to 2018, and usually falls into the familiar rhythm of Jost telling jokes which imply hes a racist millionaire and Che telling jokes which imply hes a misogynistic womanizer.

After last years gag wherein faux civil rights activist Dr. Hattie Davis sat next to Jost as he read his jokes, Che upped the ante. This year, SNL got real-life Rabbi and Cantor Jill Hausman to join in the segment. Rabbi Jill currently leads the Actors Temple in New York City and is also a classical singer, having studied at HB Studios in Manhattan.

Rabbi Jill sat at the Weekend Update desk in her kippah and tallit as Colin Jost read intentionally offensive jokes about Jews. In one, Jost suggested hes supporting Jews in this moment by specifically supporting Harvey Weinstein. Free Weinstein! Keep fighting Harvey, am I right, bubeleh? Jost laughed in shock before his face fell into his hands.

Later, he unwillingly asked Rabbi Jill, Wait if youre here, whos controlling the weather? and made a gag about Jewish space lasers while holding a puppet meant to look like an Orthodox Jewish man. The entire segment drew uproarious laughter from the studio audience, but not all of it was directed at the Weekend Update co-hosts. Rabbi Jill drew her own laughter on a couple occasions when the camera panned to see her reaction.

It could have been much worse, Rabbi Jill laughed to me on the phone this afternoon. I have an acting background, so I didnt have a problem with [the segment], but I was just hoping the jokes werent too offensive, and they were really OK.

Earlier in the day on Saturday, Rabbi Hausman streamed a Shabbat service, lead a memorial service in Massachusetts and then drove the four hours back to New York in time to make the dress rehearsal and show. Beforehand, SNL producers had told her to dress how she would dress to lead a service so she did just that, bringing her regular kippah and tallit to 30 Rock. Then, a couple hours before air, SNL producers prepped Rabbi Jill for the segment by sharing some of the jokes with her (including the puppet) and telling her that she was there to make one of the hosts uncomfortable. Despite this in-and-of-itself uncomfortable task, Rabbi Jill feels comfortable on the stage and still had fun. Everyone was so nice, she said. Everyone was really, really wonderful.

When SNL producers emailed the Actors Temple earlier in the week, Rabbi Hausman was game to do the segment, but aware of the possibility that she might be offended. However, she tells me she ultimately decided to do the segment because of Jewish representation. I also feel that people in the Jewish community need to show up. Were part of the cultural landscape, we have to be there, she said. We have to be visible.

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SNL wrapped up its 49th season this weekend and, as per tradition, Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che marked the occasion with their annual joke swap. The funny segment sees the duo exchange jokes theyve written for the other that neither of them has seen before going on air. In a special Christmas joke swap earlier this season, Che added a new wrinkle by bringing out a civil rights activist named Dr. Hattie Davis (who unbeknownst to Jost was actually an actor). Che pulled a similar bit for this weekends swap.

Last time we did this, I had an actress who pretended to be a civil rights hero, and that was low, Che remarked. To make it up to you, this time I invited an actual practicing rabbi. He then proceeded to have Jost read jokes about Harvey Weinstein, Rabbi Jill controlling the weather, and space lasers (the latter of which also involved the usage of a puppet). There was also a joke about Josts wife, Scarlett Johansson, for good measure.

Jost did get a good few licks in on Che, including having him antagonize Kendrick Lamar into a rap beef.

Last night episode, which was hosted by Jake Gyllenhaal, marked the end of Saturday Night Lives 49th season. There are already big plans in store for season 50, including a three-hour primetime special and an origin movie.

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For years, Jewish National Fund-USAs Rabbis for Israel has been crucial in engaging rabbinical leaders around the country to support the land and people of Israel. Now, as the organization aids Israels resilience efforts and the rebuilding of communities in the Israel Envelope region, Rabbis for Israel has launched a pluralistic advisory committee to deepen community engagement and further unite our people.

Chaired by the senior rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, Erez Sherman, the Rabbis for Israel Advisory Committee features educators and thought leaders from every end of the religious spectrum. And with members from Boston to Georgia to Los Angeles, the committee is primed to leverage its national reach and rally rabbis and faith leaders from around the country to increase pro-Israel activism in their congregations.

Jewish National Fund-USA has been a force of Zionism in the world that continues to impact young and old, in Israel and in the Diaspora, said Sherman. As chair of Rabbis for Israel, I am honored with the opportunity to give rabbis the resources to continue to bring positive Zionism to their congregations, schools and communities. From gathering at [Jewish National Fund-USAs] Global Conference in Dallas in November (jnf.org/gc), to literally working the land and rebuilding our Jewish home in Israel, Rabbis for Israel will stretch its wings to ensure that leaders of the past, present, and future will be prepared to stand up for Israel, and to unequivocally say Am Yisrael Chai!

A fast-growing affinity group, Rabbis for Israel has over 200 members spread out across 31 states. Since Oct. 7, over 50 religious leaders have joined, showing the clerical communitys support for Israel in the wake of such unimaginable loss.

For millennia, rabbis have been the leaders of the Jewish people, said Jewish National Fund-USA director of community engagement Dr. Marnie Nadolne. As Israel and Jews worldwide face increasing antisemitism, it has never been more important for the stewards of our wisdom and institutions to be united in support of our ancestral homeland. Our organizations diverse, yet united, advisory committee will continue the tradition of rabbis stepping up in times of crisis to spur Jews nationwide of every background to support the land and people of Israel.

Rabbis for Israel is Jewish National Fund-USAs affinity group for rabbis who have demonstrated a commitment to Israel and the organization. For more information, visit jnf.org/rfi or contact Dr. Marnie Nadolne, director of community engagement, atmnadolne@jnf.org.

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