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Now Available: A Toolkit for Addressing Antisemitism in Church Practices (March, 2025)

In partnership with LUAA’s Christian Reflection working group, LUAA Steering Committee member Rev. Reebee Kavich Girash, Rev. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, and Rev. Emily J. Garcia have published a guide for Christian clergy, music directors, directors of religious education, and lay leaders to use in locating and uprooting manifestations of antisemitism in Christian communal life and practice.

Find the toolkit here.

Faith, Identity, and Controversy: Antisemitism

LUAA co-chair Stephen Van Evera appeared on Toronto radio’s The Jack Berkovits Show on March 26, 2025 for a wide-ranging conversation about antisemitism, including what LUAA is doing to help combat it.

(Note: segment begins at about minute 16 and lasts about 35 minutes.)

Do More to Examine the Christian History of Antisemitism

In a March 24, 2025 letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, LUAA co-chair Stephen Van Evera calls on fellow Christians to acknowledge their responsibility for–and their ability to help heal–today’s antisemitism.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies Starts Center to Help Groups Fight Antisemitism

LUAA is featured in a January 2, 2025 Jewish Journal article in which Barry Wanger describes the new community-based strategy initiated by the Center for Combating Antisemitism (CCA) of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston.

A Community Comes Together to Fight Jewish Hate

Combined Jewish Philanthropies’ senior development writer Judith Forman highlighted LUAA on the Center for Combating Antisemitism website. October 30. 2024.

Some Theologians Call for a “Liturgical Audit” to Combat Antisemitism

This March 13, 2024 article by LUAA administrator Holly Rossi featured comments from the Rev. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, whose March 2023 lecture at Temple Emunah in Lexington, Massachusetts, sparked the creation of LUAA. The article references the A Toolkit for Addressing Antisemitism in Church Practices toolkit Joslyn-Siemiatkoski later created with the Rev. Reebee Kavich Girash, who is a LUAA Steering Committee member, and the Rev. Emily J. Garcia, who also leads a congregation in Lexington.

An Interfaith Group Working to Fight Antisemitism Says, “We Have Work to Do.”

In a letter to the editor of the Lexington Observer on December 20, 2023, LUAA co-chairs Fran Jacobs and Stephen Van Evera highlighted the need for community partnership following an antisemitic incident at the town’s high school.