Europe has been severely impacted by the coronavirus and Jewish communities across the continent have been profoundly affected. Many Jews have contracted the virus, while others have lost loved ones and felt the sting of the economic impact.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, and Rabbi Noam Marans, AJC’s Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, discuss Passover, Easter, and Catholic-Jewish cooperation in trying times.
The fourth and final session of AJC Los Angeles’s Global Briefing Series on Antisemitism focuses on fighting antisemitism online, on campus, and in Congress.
As a child, Edith Chaifetz eavesdropped on her parents as they described horrors of the Holocaust. She shares why “those memories haunt me to this day,” and why she’s devoted to the imperatives of fighting antisemitism and preserving both Israel and sacred memories.
Taunted by classmates and expelled from school for being Jewish, Eric Adamson’s grandfather escaped on the Kindertransport to England. He later helped the Allied Forces liberate the Mauthausen concentration camp. Adamson shares how he works for AJC Berlin “to ensure that Jewish life has a vibrant future in Germany and Europe – a life my grandfather was denied.”