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As a social worker, I meet people every day who are facing giants.

To each person who has lost sleep over the barrage of antisemitic words and actions these past weeks and months, feeling uncomfortably not okay at unacceptable acts happening near and far, this is for you.

After last Oct. 7, I was horrified watching the atrocities on the news and reading about how vulnerable Israel became.

I still remember my first Passover Seder — it was the JCRB|AJC Kansas City Unity Seder in 2019. At the time, I wasn’t Jewish, and I was just a year into my marketing job with Jewish Federation, so I was still learning a lot about Judaism.

I will be completely honest: there have been times in my two years as editor that I didn’t feel very hopeful for the long-term future of The Chronicle — the oft-spoken cries of “print media is dying” and “young people aren’t interested in community news” were genuinely getting to me.

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