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August 21, 2025

713 Days - Bring Them Home

Shana Tova

Even as I wish you and yours the most joyous of Jewish holidays (sweet, happy, healthy, prosperous), I can't remember the last time I said Happy New Year (September or December) and in my heart felt it will be a good one. If I am honest, there are times when I will gladly take "not getting worse."

In 2019, after the cemetery in Fall River was desecrated, I bumped into Kim Kalunian from WPRI12. In that video clip, which I viewed again this week, I said that I can't believe that in 2019 United States something like this can happen.

?Six years later no one is even mildly surprised when daily antisemitism of that magnitude occurs. There was a pandemic that made simply making it to the other side a relief. A radical government took over Israel three years ago and the United States last year. The Jewish holidays - not just the victims of October 7th - were taken hostage by Hamas too. Will we able say Simchat Torah without thinking about rape victims and burned babies? I probably won't.

Yes, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and even Qatar and Yemen pose a smaller threat to mankind, but somehow everything feels like we are not just losing, but that the score keeps getting worse. And if last year at this time I thought it was likely the fourth quarter and the end is near, 356 days later it turns out we may have only been in the second half. Ominous indeed.

One of the brightest spots this past year for me was the dedication of many of you. Because of your support we have and will continue to help those in need in our community and in Israel. I am particularly proud of our support of the Druze community in Israel, which was a first for us this year. For that I am thankful to all of you. You are making it possible and I know you will continue.

A Happy and a Healthy New Year to all of you and please Bring Them Home.

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October 7, 2024 Commemoration

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Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker Ana Sazonov Answers Your Questions About Ukraine

On June 16, 2022, at our annual meeting, we hosted Ana Sazonov, executive director at the Jewish Federation of Columbia, SC. Ana recently returned from two weeks of volunteer work at the Ukraine border with Poland and shared her experience with us. We had many questions after and she answered all of them.