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May 24, 2024

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Minister Walk into a Bar...

I know it's a tired refrain to say “SNL is no longer funny.” Still, as someone who digests copious amounts of news, I make a point of watching its recurring segment on current events, the Weekend Update. Periodically, the Update’s two cohosts—Colin Jost and Michael Che—swap jokes w…

May 13, 2024

Examining Crisis-Level Antisemitism in 2023

A few weeks ago, the ADL published its 2023 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents in the United States. From our local experience and preliminary data, we knew it’d be bad. How bad it was, precisely, shocked even me.

In 2022, the ADL tracked 3,698 antisemitic incidents, and that was a then-new a…

May 13, 2024

Stand Together: RSVP for Our Annual Meeting and Show Your Support

by Danielle V. Minson

Josh Blatt, Federation's Chair of the Board, and Danielle V. Minson, Federation's CEO

Dear friends,

From the initial news on the morning of October 7 when we heard of the attack on Israel, to the realization and learning of unimaginable atrocities that occurred that day, to the troubling …

May 6, 2024

The Strength of Our Global Jewish Community 

by Danielle V. Minson

Felicia Zakem, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Danielle V. Minson

 

Dear friends,  

Last week, like many since October 7, underscored the strength we draw from each other and the global Jewish community.  

During a recent lunch with Shalom Norman, a former Shaliach to Cincinnati fro…

May 2, 2024

Compassion During Discord

News coverage these past days has been dominated by “the encampments.” These college-campus (and campus-adjacent) gatherings of pro-Palestine and anti-Israel protestors—I think there’s a difference between the two, even if they very often overlap—have generated chaos in the univers…