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Apr 14, 2023

Lessons Learned from the Seder Plate

by Jewish Community Relations Council

Passover is over, and I, for one, am happy to be reunited with chametz. Still, I have a twinge of sadness that the seder is behind us for another year. The seder contains one of my favorite ritual items, the seder plate.

Yes, the humble seder plate. I’m fascinated by it. Effectively, it�…

Apr 4, 2023

This Passover, We Cannot Pass Over Hate

by Danielle V. Minson

Dear friends,

As our community celebrates Passover, we are thinking about ways to become more free. As Jews living in the United States, many freedoms are afforded to us. But are we fully free when antisemitism proliferates and our own children experience it? Can we have full freedom when …

Mar 31, 2023

The 🟦 Explained and How to be an Ally Against Antisemitism

by Jewish Community Relations Council

There’s a good chance you’ve already seen this–🟦–symbol on TV, social media, or elsewhere in the past few days. Maybe you saw an ad like this. I even got a sponsored post about it on TikTok yesterday morning.

If you haven’t seen the 🟦 yet, here’s the short explanation: it …

Mar 17, 2023

Defining the Hate to Help Fight Back

by Jewish Community Relations Council

On Wednesday, Cincinnati’s City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution recognizing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. This is a big win and only came about due to efforts by JCRC, AJC, and council member Mark Jeffreys who introduced …

Mar 3, 2023

We Need to Talk About Israel

by Jewish Community Relations Council

The past months in Israel have been chaotic.

There have been tensions within the Israeli mainstream about the current coalition's plan to transfer power from the judiciary to the legislature. There have been concerns amongst those who identify or ally with non-Orthodox Jews, as certain fact…